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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the ...
On behalf of Paul Morphy, the American Chess Association offered a $5,000 challenge to any player in Europe to contest a match with the recently crowned ACA champion. [6] The ACA published a monthly magazine, American Chess Monthly, founded in January 1857 by Willard Fiske, who had helped organize the First American Chess Congress. [7]
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.