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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.
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 ...
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
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. [122]
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 ...
The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
During this time a chess column also appeared in the Pictorial Times lasting from February 1845 to June 1848. In 1882 Henry Bird in his Chess History and Reminiscences estimated that there were 150 chess columns. Less than thirty years later in 1913 H. J. R. Murray in his A History of Chess estimated there existed at least 1,000 chess columns ...
Josef Cukierman: (1900–1941) was a Polish-born French chess master. Marcel Engelmann Belgian master. Karl Poschauko was an Austrian chess master. Emmanuel Sapira (died 1943), Romanian-born Belgian chess master. January 29 – Irving Chernev (1900–1981), American chess player and author is born in Pryluky, Russian Empire.