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The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Evidence Act) is a United States law that establishes processes for the federal government to modernize its data management practices, evidence-building functions, and statistical efficiency to inform policy decisions. [1]
1846 – Deutsche Schachzeitung is the first German chess magazine. 1848 – Earliest known instance of a game played between blind players. 1849 – The Staunton chess set is created by Nathaniel Cooke. 1851 – First international tournament is held in London, and won by Adolf Anderssen (Prussia). 1852 – Sandglasses are first used to time a ...
The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e.g.My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alexander Alekhine), annotations of games from a single tournament, collections of chess games covering a certain period of time (e.g. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games.
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It was the first decisive classical game in a World Chess Championship in more than five years, ending the longest-ever streak of 19 draws in consecutive World Chess Championship classical games, [121] and the 136-move game became the longest in the history of the World Chess Championship.
Edward Nathan Frankenstein suggested in 1903 a variation of the game where one player sees the board and another plays Kriegspiel. To make the game fair, the "sighted" player starts with fewer pieces. Frankenstein proposed two variants: Pickle pot: The player who sees the board plays with king, queen, one bishop, and pawns; a total of 11 pieces.
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ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history.