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...that Searching for Bobby Fischer, a film based loosely on the life of International Master Josh Waitzkin and featuring cameo appearances by Grandmasters Joel Benjamin and Roman Dzindzichashvili, was voted by the American Film Institute as the 96th-most inspirational English language film of all-time in 2006?
...that former women's world champion Susan Polgar gave a simulatenous exhibition in Palm Beach, Florida, in July 2005 in which she played 1,131 consecutive games, including 326 at once, winning 1,096 and setting four world records?
...that American Paul Morphy, who played prior to the institution of the world chess championship, is nevertheless widely considered to have been the sport's first world champion and was so viewed contemporaneously, including by Oliver Wendell Holmes, who called Morphy the best player in the world?