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Possibly the first game using the now-standard move order 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 was Thorvaldsson–Vaitonis, Munich Olympiad 1936. [ 5 ] In many countries, particularly in Eastern Europe, the opening is known as the Volga Gambit ( Russian : Волжский гамбит ).
Chess on a really big board was created as an outgrowth of Betza's ideas on three-dimensional chess, after he noted that an 8×8×8 board for 3D chess would have 512 spaces, more than any large version of chess that had previously been invented; he then considered two-dimensional very large (or, in his word, "huge") chess games, mainly on the ...
Shane's Chess Information Database (Scid) is a free and open source UNIX, Windows, Linux, and Mac application for viewing and maintaining large databases of chess games. [3] It has features comparable to popular commercial chess software. [4] Scid is written in Tcl/Tk and C++.
For infinite chess, it has been found that the mate-in-n problem is decidable; that is, given a natural number n and a player to move and the positions (such as on ) of a finite number of chess pieces that are uniformly mobile and with constant and linear freedom, there is an algorithm that will answer if there is a forced checkmate in at most n moves. [11]
Beko has been the official sponsor of the Turkish, Italian and Lithuanian premier basketball leagues, as well as the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. [14] Beko is a partner of the Spanish football club FC Barcelona [15] since 2014 and Turkish football club Beşiktaş JK [16] (having previously been their shirt sponsor from 1988 to 2004 [17]) and Turkmen football club FC HTTU. [18]
1956 – Los Alamos chess is the first program to play a chess-like game, developed by Paul Stein and Mark Wells for the MANIAC I computer. 1956 – John McCarthy invents the alpha–beta search algorithm. 1957 – The first programs that can play a full game of chess are developed, one by Alex Bernstein [69] and one by Russian programmers ...
1990 the market for high-priced chess computers collapses. The cause is the growth of high-performance 486 PCs and the availability of newly developed low-cost strong chess software for PCs. 1992 H+G shows losses of 28 Million DM
Hoyle Majestic Chess received generally positive reviews from critics. GameSpot recommended Fritz 8 or Chessmaster 9000 for experienced players but said the fantasy tutorial is the best way to introduce a person to chess. [5] IGN said the real draw of the game is the adventure mode and called the chess engine "robust". [7]