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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 ...
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The Chess Monthly was a short-lived monthly chess magazine produced from January 1857 and May 1861 in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Edited by professional diplomat and linguistics professor Daniel Willard Fiske , it was co-edited for a time by Paul Morphy .
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, [116] and the 136-move game became the longest in the history of the World Chess Championship. [117]
American Grandmaster Robert Byrne wrote a column for The New York Times from 1972 to 2006. [1] GM Lubomir Kavalek's column in The Washington Post ran from 1986 to 2010. [2] GM Nigel Short wrote a chess column for the Sunday Telegraph from 1995 to 2005, and then for The Guardian from 2005 to 2006. [3] GM Jon Speelman wrote for The Guardian from ...
The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine editions, the first played in October 1857 and the last in August 1923.