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Sam Loyd
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American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)
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Samuel Loyd was an American inventor, chess composer, mathematician, and chess player. Born in Philadelphia on January 30, 1841, he was a male citizen of the United States who played chess for his country. He spoke and wrote in English.
Loyd died in New York City on April 10, 1911. He is also known by the name Sam Loyd.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 January 1841
- Died
- 10 April 1911
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Nokkur skákdæmi og tafllok
- Mathematical puzzles
- Mathematical puzzles
- 100 Headachingly Hard Mate in Two Chess Puzzles Composed by Sam Loyd
- Sam Loyd's Best Picture Puzzles
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 33
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- chess player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- United States
- Official website
- www.samloyd.com
- Image
- Samuel Loyd.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sam Loyd
- date of birth
- 1841-01-31
- date of death
- 1911-04-10
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Samuel Loyd
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Commons Creator page
- Sam Loyd
- birth name
- Samuel Loyd
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