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Genres. Chicago blues, electric blues, blues, rock and roll, R&B, soul music. Occupation. Record company executive. Years active. 1950–1972. Labels. Chess. Philip Chess (born Fiszel Czyż; March 27, 1921 – October 18, 2016) was a Polish-born American record producer and company executive, the co-founder with his brother of Chess Records.
Years active. 1938–1969. Labels. Chess, Checker, Argo, Cadet. Musical artist. Leonard Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969), was a Polish-American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records. He was influential in the development of electric blues, Chicago blues, and rock and roll.
A Short History of Chess. McKay. ISBN 0-679-14550-8. OCLC 17340178. Eales, Richard (1985). Chess, The History of a Game. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0816011957. Forbes, Duncan (1860). The History of Chess: From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe. London: W. H ...
United States. Location. Chicago, Illinois. Chess Recordswas an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in bluesand rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat Records, founded in 1947. It expanded into soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazzand comedy recordings, released on the Chess and ...
1849 – The Staunton chess setis created by Nathaniel Cooke. 1851 – First international tournamentis held in London, and won by Adolf Anderssen (Prussia). 1852 – Sandglassesare first used to time a game. 1857 – First American Chess Congress, won by 20-year-old Paul Morphy (USA), causes a chess epidemic across the U.S.
Contents. Cadillac Records. Cadillac Records is a 2008 American biographical drama film written and directed by Darnell Martin. The film explores the musical era from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, chronicling the life of the influential Chicago -based record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king; checkmate occurs when a king is ...