Garry Kasparov retired from competitive chess in March, 2005. He gave up competitive chess after playing chess and being the best in the world for 20 years (1985 to 2005). He gave up chess to devote more time to politics. Other prominant chess ...
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...
The Albin Counter Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5) is quite rare in GM practice and only very few “dare” to play it. Russian GM Alexander Morozevich is one who plays it occasionally and with success. American GM Hikaru Nakamura is likely the s...
What's the best age to learn chess? No one really knows. Perhaps the earlier, the better. Maybe there is no difference at a very young age (for example, age 4) and a young age (for example, 10). Here are some the ages of when some of the play...
The Giuoco Piano means quiet game. But in the hands of a strong player, it is not a quiet game. Here is one of the most famous Giuoco Piano games of all time. It was played by world champion William Stienitz at the great Hastings...
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland) on July 6, 1818. He came from a poor family. He learned chess from his father in 1827 at the age of 9 and filled up his school books with chess diagrams. He lived with...
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...
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...
In 1800, Pierre Saint-Amant (1800-1872) was born. In 1802, Ercole Del Rio, the anonymous Modenese, died. In 1802, James Humphreys published the first chess book in America, Chess Made Easy. In 1803, the Turk was being exhibited in London. In ...
