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Eritrea Chess Federation: 0: 171: Eritrean Chess Championship Estonia: 1.7: Eesti Maleliit [41] 6: 2,685: Estonian Chess Championship Eswatini: 4.5: Eswatini National Chess Federation: 0: 288: Swazi Chess Championship Ethiopia: 4.4: Ethiopian Chess Federation [42] 0: 1,071: Ethiopian Chess Championship Faroe Islands: 1.10: Talvsamband Føroya ...
Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players, involving no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square game board called a ...
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These seven ivory chess pieces are the oldest-known, dating to about 700 CE. The ivory came from India. They were excavated in 1977 by archaeologist Yuriy Buryakov, at Afrasiyab in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. They are housed today at the Samarkand State Museum. Taken during a loan of the pieces to the Silk Roads Exhibition at the British Museum (from History of chess). A Chess Dispute (1903) (from ...
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The game of chess, or rather its immediate precursor, known as shatranj, was introduced to Europe from the Islamic sphere, most likely via Iberia (modern Spain), in the 9th or 10th century (possibly as early as at the beginning of the 9th century, and certainly by the mid to late 10th century).
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Chess has been recorded as played in Australia since the middle of the nineteenth century, during which a chess club was established in Melbourne. [1]The Australian Chess Federation consists of seven chess association members, corresponding to each of the six Australian states and the Australian Capital Territory.