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Pages in category "1920 in chess" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The 1921 World Chess Championship was played between José Raúl Capablanca and Emanuel Lasker. It was played in Capablanca's native Havana from March 18 to April 28. Capablanca won the match by a score of 9-5 (4 wins, 0 losses, 10 draws) to become the third World Chess Champion.
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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 ...
The title comes from a chess formation named after former World Chess Champion Alexander Alekhine. The protagonist is Semyon Strogov, designated as Agent "Alekhine", a KGB agent recruited by the CIA. The game takes place primarily during the 1960s era of the Cold War, with flashback missions set in World War II.
The 1920 USSR Chess Championship was the first edition of the USSR Chess Championship, held from 4–24 October in Moscow. The tournament was won by future world ...
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Some authors invented new chess variants in their works, such as stealth chess in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series or Tri-Dimensional chess in the Star Trek series. Another connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp , who almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess in 1923. [ 14 ]