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1471 – The Göttingen manuscript is the first book to deal solely with chess. 1474 – William Caxton publishes The Game and Playe of Chesse, the first chess book in English. 1475–1525 – Castling and the modern moves for the queen and bishop are slowly adopted. 1475 – Scachs d'amor the first published game of modern chess, written as a ...
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 ...
Authors with five books or more have a sub-section title on their own, to increase the usability of the table of contents. When a book was written by several authors, it is listed once under the name of each author. See: List of chess books (A–F) List of chess books (G–L) List of chess books (M–S) List of chess books (T–Z)
A computer-based process of analyzing chess abilities across history came from Matej Guid and Ivan Bratko at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2006. [20] A similar project was conducted for World Champions in 2007–08 using Rybka 2.3.2a (then-strongest chess program) and a modified version of Guid and Bratko's program "Crafty". [21]
The history of chess began nearly 1500 years ago, and over the past century and a half the game has changed drastically. No technology or strategy, however, has changed chess as much as the introduction of chess engines. Despite only coming into existence within the previous 70 years, the introduction of chess engines has molded and defined how ...
Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess (1473) Another early illustrated text is the Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess (Latin: Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum) which is based on the sermons of Jacopo da Cessole and was first published in ...
Chess (Northwestern University) The Chess Game; List of chess games; List of chess historians; Chess in Africa; Chess in early literature; Chess in the arts; The Chess Players (Favén) Collins Kids organization; Comparison of top chess players throughout history; Nathaniel Cooke; Courier chess; Cox–Forbes theory; Croatian checkerboard
He has won many chess tournaments including the first US National High School Chess Championship and the American Open. Watson is a renowned chess theorist and author, having published more than thirty books on many aspects of chess. His 1999 book Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy won the British Chess Federation's Book of the Year award as well ...