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1512 – Pedro Damiano publishes one of the first chess treatises, Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti. One of the oldest surviving manuscripts to detail chess strategy, Damiano's work gives the earliest known refutation of an unsound chess opening. This opening, the Damiano Defense is named in his honor.
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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In 1855 Stanley organized the first World Problem Tournament. In 1849 he helped future chess master Johann Löwenthal, who was then a penniless immigrant. [1] He was one of the participants in the 1st American Chess Congress, which he played in 1857 where Morphy won, and he was regarded as the new U.S. Chess Champion. [2]
The American Chess Magazine ceased publication in 1847. [7] [8] [11] At various times in the 1850s and 1860s, Marache was the chess editor or chess columnist for the New York Clipper, Porter's Spirit of the Times, and Wilkes' Spirit of the Times. [12] [13] In 1865, Marache wrote the chess section for a new edition of Hoyle's guide to games. [5]
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.
Another magazine called Chess Monthly published in 1879-96 had no connection with this one. The organization ceased to function within a few years, and should not be confused with others of the same name founded in 1871 and 1874 (which organized the Third American Chess Congress), or the later American Chess Federation (a successor to 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 ...