he first world team competition took place in Paris in 1924 to coincide with the Olympic Games. There were 54 players from 18 countries. Czechoslovakia won the Gold Medal. The Silver went to Hungary and the Bronze went to Switzerland. The individu...
Compositions are chess positions other than which arises during a chess game, usually, but not necessarily, composed for solving. The chess problem and the composed chess ending are the true art forms of chess. Orthodox compositions co...
Chess is such an international game. Here is a game played by a Hungarian player against a Polish player using the French Defense played in Russia. The winner was Leo Fleischmann, a former Hungarian champion who gave up the game after ...
Johannes Hermann Zukertort (SOOK-er-tort) was born in Lublin, Poland on September 7, 1842. Zukertort said that his mother was the Baroness Krzyzanovska. Zukertort studied chemistry at Heidelberg and physiology at Berlin. In 1861, he enrolled at ...
Cambridge Springs was a health resort in Pennsylvania, famous for its spas and mineral waters. It advertised that it was the town that was halfway between New York and Chicago when you took the Erie Railroad line. It is in northwestern Pennsylv...
On August 23, 1939, the 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires was formerly opened. Play began on August 24, 1939. The world women’s chess championship also took place at the same time in Buenos Aires. Due to political events, prom...
Joseph Henry Blackburne was born on December 10, 1841 in Manchester, England. As a youth, he became an expert at checkers (draughts). His father was a temperance reformer who travelled all over Britain and Ireland, taking his son with him. It is i...
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French chessplayer and renouwned artist. He was born in Blainville-Crevon, France on July 28, 1887 and died on October 2, 1968. He came from a family of artists and chess players. He had 4 brothers and 2 sisters. ...
In April 1914 an initiative was taken in St. Peterburg, Russia to form an international chess federation. In July, 1914 an attempt was made to organize an international chess federation during the Mannheim International Chess Tournament. In 1920...
At the beginning of World War II, world chess champion Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) was living in France (he later moved to Portugal, but the Nazis refused to let his wife join him). When the Nazis came into power, he became in...
In the September 1, 1894 New York Times issue, an article appeared that a Women's Chess Association of America was formed. The article states that in the Spring of 1893, a few women met informally and organized the Women's Chess Ass...
Paul Morphy was born on June 22, 1837 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He had two sisters, Mahrina and Helena, and a brother Edward. His father's nationality was Spanish, but he was of Irish origin. His mother was French. From the age of 8 ...
Alexander Alehine (1892-1946) was the 4th official world chess champion, after William Steinitz, Emamuel Lasker, and Jose Capablanca.Some sources say he was born on November 1, while other sources give October 31, 1892 (Halloween) as the dat...
A correspondence chess game was thought to be played between the Emperor Nicephorus and the Caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid (763-809), in the 9th century. A correspondence chess game was thought to be played in 1119 by King Henry I (1068-1135) ...
The earliest chesspieces from India (the birthplace of chess) were called shah (king), wazir (counsellor), fil (bishop), asp (knight), rukh (rook), and piyade (pawn). The earliest Persian names were shah, farzin, pil, asp, rukh, and piyada. In Ara...
Robert James (Bobby) Fischer was born at 2:39 pm on March 9, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois (Michael Reese hospital) to Regina Wender Fischer Pustan (born in Switzerland of Jewish parents on March 31, 1913) and Hans-Gerhardt Fischer (born September 28,...
I did a little survey of chess opening frequencies from several chess databases. After looking over a million games or so and keeping tabs of the first few moves, these are the results. 1.e4 was the most common opening, representing 70...
An intelligence quotient or IQ is a number derived from a set of standardized tests developed to measure a person's cognitive abilities, or intelligence, in relation to thier age group. Originally, IQ represented the ratio between a person...
Even though chess is the most popular game in the world, there are many people who are just beginning to learn how enjoyable chess is. If you are completely new to chess, or even know the rules and want to touch up on the most important strategi...
