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...
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 ...
The age of becoming a chess master is geting younger and younger. We now have 10 year old masters and a 12 year old grandmaster. Here are some of the chess prodigies over the years.Alexander Alekhine learned chess at the age of 7 and w...
In the film industry, there are many names of movie stars and other folks that have played chess. These celebrities include: Claude Akins (Sheriff Lobo) Alan Alda (M*A*S*H), Woody Allen, Lauren Bacall (once married to Humphrey Bogart), the B...
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...
In 1968, Stanley Kubrick (a strong chess player himself) directed 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is probably the most famous man vs. computer chess games in film. The movie features an astronaut, Dr. Frank Poole (played by Gary Lockw...
The wife (or husband or significant other) of an addicted chessplayer is a very lonely creature who must put up with her husband's (or wife or significant other) obsession with chess. The chessplayer's widow sees her husband...
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...
Chess and religion did not always get along. At one time or another, chess was forbidden by Muslims, Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Jews, the Puritans, and the Taliban.Chess (shatranj) was a legal issue after Mohammad died in 642. I...
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...
On January 2, 2005, Grandmaster Arnold Denker died at the age of 90 of brain cancer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was less than two months from his 91st birthday. I knew him for many years.A few chess masters have made it to ag...
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...
It was my ex-coach Bill Lombardy who said, "In chess, winning isn't everything. It is the only thing!" As you know, chessplayers can't stand losing a game of chess. Therefore, it is quite necessary to know how to win easily without just mastering ...
Ok, I admit it. I am a chess addict. I have played thousands of games over 38 years. I've probably played over 10,000 games on the Internet. I have over 2,000 chess books and magazines. I can't possibly read them all. I have millions of games on...
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...
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 ...
Ok, so most chess players have heard of and even solved the 8 Queens problem. The purpose of this article is to see just how many unique solutions there are to that problem. What's the problem? Arrange 8 queens on a chessboard in such a way t...
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