Zitat von Conrad Schormann am 28. Mai 2023, 17:40 Uhr

Die New York Time hat sich in ihrer wunderbaren Serie "Overlooked no more" über bislang nicht ausreichend gewürdigte Persönlichkeiten Sultan Khan angenommen:

Overlooked No More: Sultan Khan, Untrained Chess Player Who Became a Champion

He beat some of the world’s top players despite growing up with little access to chess books and not having the same knowledge his rivals possessed.

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Porträt im Magazin "Dawn":

CHESS: THE WRATH OF KHAN

When Sultan Khan won the British Chess Championship in 1929, it was hailed as an extraordinary achievement for a man of colour. He repeated the feat in 1932 and 1933 and, during an international career spanning only five years, he defeated the predominantly ‘white’ masters of the game including Rubinstein, Flohr, Capablanca and Tartakower.