Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ọ ghọrọ ihe a ma ama mgbe Ernst Grünfeld webatara ya n'egwuregwu mba ụwa na Vienna na 1922, ebe, n'egwuregwu mbụ ya na onye na-agbachitere ya, o meriri onye mmeri ụwa n'ọdịnihu Alexander Alekhine. Grünfeld na-ejikarị ụdị nke oge gboo eme ihe. Ọtụtụ ndị egwuregwu ama ama mechara jiri agbachitere, gụnyere Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein, na Bobby Fischer. Garry Kasparov na-ejikarị agbachitere, gụnyere na asọmpi World Championship ya megide Anatoly Karpov na 1986, 1987 na 1990, na Vladimir Kramnik na 2000. Ndị ama ama na-arụ ọrụ ugbu a na-eji mmeghe gụnyere Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Loek van Wely, Peter Svidler, Peter Leko, Viswanathan Anand, Luke McShane na Gata Kamsky. Anand jiri ya mee ihe ugboro abụọ na World Chess Championship 2010. Na World Chess Championship 2012 n'etiti Anand na Boris Gelfand, onye ọkpụkpọ ọ bụla jiri Grünfeld mee ihe otu ugboro na egwuregwu abụọ ahụ kwụsịrị na draw. Anand zutere Grünfeld megide Magnus Carlsen n'oge egwuregwu mbụ nke
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