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Chess is a game played between two players using 32 pieces (16 each of two distinct colors) on a square grid of 64 squares.
The earliest known ancestor of modern chess was an Indian game called Chaturanga, where the knight, King, and Rooks moved ...
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What is Chess960?
Chess960 (also called FischerRandom) is just like regular chess... except that the starting position is shuffled to include 960 different possible positions! So you can throw out your opening book, but keep your opening principl...
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Castling is the only time in the game when more than one piece may be moved during a turn. Castling can only occur if there are no pieces standing between the king and the rook. Neither king nor rook may have moved from its original po...
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In 1960 Bobby Fischer gave a simultaneous exhibition at Rikers Island prison. He defeated all 20 prisoners while 2,400 inmates watched the exhibition and the prison band played. In 1971 a prisoner failed to return to Western Penitentia...
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Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov, born May 23, 1951, in Zlatoust, Russia, was the 12th World Chess Champion (1975-1985).
Karpov was the first world champion to win the title without playing a chess match. He was awarded the title in 1975 when Bobby ...
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Originally called mantri (a minister or counselor), it could only move to one adjacent diagonal square. When chess came to Europe, the Queen could leap three squares. By 1475 the Queen obtained its present power of moving along the ranks and f...
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One of the strongest chess tournaments of all time. It was called the Second International Chess Tournament and was the strongest chess tournament up to that time. The top 9 players in the world participated. It was won by Steini...
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First computer to play in a chess tournament. It played in all 5 rounds of the Massachusetts Amateur Championship in 1967. The chess program was written by Richard Greenblatt of MIT’s Project Mac for the Dec PDP-6 (1200 KHz) comp...
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In 1851, at the first International Chess Tournament, Eduard Loewe, M. Brodie, E.S. Kennedy, Samuel Newham, and Carl Mayet all got knocked out without a single win in 2 games. In 1857, at the 1st American Chess Congress, James Thompson and S...
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Chess Facts related to Japan.
During World War II, the Japanese confiscated chess books thinking they were military codes.
In 1962, they held their first international chess tournament, organized by the Japanese Chess Federation, in Yokohama. It...
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