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Van 't Kruijs appears to have become affiliated with the United Amsterdam Chess Society sometime prior to 1851, when the club held the first Dutch chess 'championship' game. [1] According to testimony from witnesses and other chess scholars of the time who were in attendance, Van 't Kruijs won rather handily in these tournaments.
This tournament is typically held during the summer at the same time as the U.S. Open Chess Championship. In 1991, another new national championship was introduced, known as the National School Grade championships. The idea of this tournament was to determine national individual and team championships for each grade (Kindergarten through 12th ...
Scholar's mate was named and described in The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, a 1656 text by Francis Beale which adapted the work of the early chess writer Gioachino Greco. [1] The example given above is an adaptation of that reported by Beale.
Female chess players in the modern era generally compete in a mix of open and women's tournaments. With women representing a low fraction of all chess players throughout history, it has been uncommon for women to win open tournaments where women and men are mixed together, particularly at the higher levels.
The 1971/72 edition of the Niemeyer junior tournament, held every year since 1962/63 in Groningen, is formally adopted by FIDE as the 1st European Junior Chess Championship. The winner is the young Hungarian Gyula Sax, who follows in the footsteps of compatriots Andras Adorjan and Zoltán Ribli, the winners of the previous two Niemeyer tournaments.
The 35th Chess Olympiad, a chess tournament for teams. A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among multiple serious players.
February 25 – Toma Popa (1908–1962), Romanian Chess Champion in 1948; March 11 – Viacheslav Ragozin (1908–1962), 53, Soviet GM, International Arbiter, chess writer, and World Correspondence Chess Champion 1956–59. April 3 – Ernst Grünfeld (1893–1962), 68, Austrian GM and opening theorist, eponym of the Grünfeld Defence.
The Göttingen manuscript is the earliest known work devoted entirely to modern chess.It is a Latin text of 33 pages held at the University of Göttingen.A quarto parchment manuscript of 33 pages, ff. 1–15a are a discussion of twelve chess openings, f. 16 is blank, and ff. 17–31b are a selection of thirty chess problems, one on each page with a diagram and solution.