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1802 – Earliest known American chess book, Chess Made Easy by J. Humphreys is published. 1813 – The Liverpool Mercury prints the world's earliest chess column. 1824 – Earliest known British correspondence chess match, London – Edinburgh is held. 1830 – Earliest recorded instance of a modern female chess player.
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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. Allen ...
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.
American Grandmaster Robert Byrne wrote a column for The New York Times from 1972 to 2006. [1] GM Lubomir Kavalek's column in The Washington Post ran from 1986 to 2010. [2] GM Nigel Short wrote a chess column for the Sunday Telegraph from 1995 to 2005, and then for The Guardian from 2005 to 2006. [3] GM Jon Speelman wrote for The Guardian from ...
On behalf of Paul Morphy, the American Chess Association offered a $5,000 challenge to any player in Europe to contest a match with the recently crowned ACA champion. [6] The ACA published a monthly magazine, American Chess Monthly, founded in January 1857 by Willard Fiske, who had helped organize the First American Chess Congress. [7]
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January 29 – Irving Chernev (1900–1981), American chess player and author is born in Pryluky, Russian Empire. March 18 – Roberto Grau (1900–1944) Argentine master born in Buenos Aires. March 23 – José Joaquín Araiza (1900–1971), Mexican chess master. May 13 – Theodore Tylor (1900–1968), British chess player born in Bournville ...