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Chess in Spain refers to Spain's contribution to the history of chess, from its integration around the 10th century to the present day. The Spanish received Shatranj , one of the predecessors of chess , from the Arabs during the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula between the 7th and 15th centuries.
1913 – Publication of H. J. R. Murray's book A History of Chess. 1913 – The grasshopper is the first fairy piece invented, having its origin in the Renaissance "leaping queen". 1919 – Capablanca gives a simultaneous in the House of Commons against 39 players.
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 ...
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).
Ruy López's contribution to chess was mainly to its opening theory; Peter J. Monté has described him as the "father of opening theory". [1] His analysis of the King's Gambit in particular went well beyond earlier writing such as Damiano's. [1] He also was the strongest player in Spain, and possibly Italy, for about twenty years.
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Murray's companion work was A History of Board-Games other than ChessISBN 0-19-827401-7. He also wrote a new history of the game from its beginnings until 1866, called A Short History of Chess. This was found among the papers left behind at his death in 1955, and was published, with contributions by B. Goulding Brown and Harry Golombek, in 1963.
The book includes analysis of eleven chess openings but also contains many elementary errors that led chess historian H. J. R. Murray to suggest that it was prepared in a hurry. [3] The book was written when the rules of chess were taking their modern form (see origins of modern chess ), and some of the 150 positions in the book are of the old ...