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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.
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.
The Chess Records logo, as featured on a Memphis Slim single. Leonard Chess bought a stake in Aristocrat Records in 1947. In 1950, he brought his brother, Phil, into the operation, and they became the sole owners of the company. In that same year, they bought out a third partner, Evelyn Aron, and renamed the company Chess Records.
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.
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 ...
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 Records.
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The earliest form of a chess engine appears in the 18th century with a machine named the Mechanical Turk. Created by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Mechanical Turk, a life sized human model, debuted in 1770 as the world's first autonomous chess robot. The Mechanical Turk could play chess and beat opponents, even going as far as ...