Piatigorsky, Jacqueline (1911-2012)
Jacqueline Piatigorsky. Picture from chessgames.com (https://bit.ly/2uT7H3U).
| Alternative last name spellings: – |
| Alternative first name spellings: Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild. |
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“I loved the game, the pieces, how they moved, the challenge to find a solution to the infinite combinations. I had actually fallen in love.”
GENERAL INFO
| Description: Jacqueline Piatigorsky was a chess and tennis player, writer, sculptor, philanthropist and patron of the arts. She was a member of the Rothschild family of bankers in France. As a chess player, she finished second in the US Women’s Championship, and in the 1960s, she was the strongest chess player in the United States, taking second place and competing successfully in several US Women’s Championships. He also organized, among others, the Piatigorsky Cups with Fischer and Spassky. |
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| Sex: Female. | Occupation: Sculptress. Tennis player. Chess player. |
| Place of Birth / Death: Paris, France. / Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. | Country Tags: France. United States. |
| Centuries: XX-XXI. | Title: – |
| World Champion: – | School: IM Herman Steiner. |
| Styles: – | Chess Olympiads: 1957. |
IN MUSICHESS
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External links
- Armchair.com: Growing As We Age by Jacqueline Piatigorsky: http://www.armchair.com/aware/aging1.html – [07/04/2018].
- Chessbase.com: Chess player and benefactor Jacqueline Piatigorsky dies at 100: https://en.chessbase.com/post/che-player-and-benefactor-jacqueline-piatigorsky-dies-at-100 – [07/04/2018].
- Chesshistory.com: Chess: Jacqueline and Gregor Piatigorsky by Edward Winter: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/piatigorsky.html – [07/04/2018].
- Fide.com: Chess Benefactor Jacqueline Piatigorsky Dies at 100 By Randy Hough: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/6327-obituary.html – [07/04/2018].
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky at Olimpbase: http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/79jh1j3n.html – [07/04/2018].
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky on US Chess Federation: http://www.uschess.org/content/view/11818/512/ – [07/04/2018].
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky official website: http://jacquelinepiatigorsky.com/Jacqueline_Piatigorsky/Home.html – [07/04/2018].
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=131589 – [07/04/2018].
- Wikipedia the free encyclopedia: Jacqueline Piatigorsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Piatigorsky – [07/04/2018].
- Worldchesshof.org: Jacqueline Piatigorsky: Patron, player, pioneer: https://worldchesshof.org/exhibitions/jacqueline-piatigorsky-patron-player-pioneer – [07/04/2018].
Bibliography
- Averbakh, Yuri. (2012). A history of chess. From Chaturanga to the present day. Milford, USA: Russel enterprises Inc.
- Eales, Richard. (2002). Chess: The history of a game. Glasgow, Scotland: Hardinge Simpole Publishing.
- Hooper, David. Whyld, Kenneth. (1992). The Oxford companion to chess. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky (1988). Jump in the Waves: A Memoir by Jacqueline Piatigorsky. New York : St. Martin’s Press.
- Murray, H. J. R. (1913). A history of chess. New York: Oxford University Press.
