Salimbene di Adam [1221 – c. 1290], was born in Parma and dwelled in the central - northern Italy during the 13th c. Member of the Franciscan order, he experienced events of the Guelph - Ghibelline wars and the Italian expedition of Frederic...
I had watched the games of the FIDE world cup 2023 in real time via chess.com/events, having a really great time. Magnus Carlsen & Vincent Keymer played against each other on the 4th round and their chess battle seemed to me perhaps the most f...
Already since the 3rd Soviet chess championship of 1924, thoughts had been expressed for an international tournament in the Soviet Union [see Grekov, 1937, p. 108, & Ilyin-Zhenevsky's diary]. This was organized about a year later, during Nov 1...
In December 1930 a quick chess tournament was organized in Ljubljana. Honored guest was Alexander Alekhine, at the time world champion. Alekhine and Vasja Pirc tied at the first place; with Pirc winning the champion in a beautiful game. *The t...
A quick demonstration of a beautiful recent game... so to watch it on the road. .... thanx for reading check also my misc history blog in https://introuble2-s.blogspot.com/
Portoroz, Yugoslavia [SLO], August 1958... and the interzonal begins with 21 chess players participating. Among them, the 22-year old Mikhail Tal, already USSR champion, at the start of his road to the top of the world. But also the chess prodig...
Imagine that we are in the pre-internet era... There's one guy who loves chess, feels creative and composed an endgame study. It's his first, feels proud and wants to share it. There's no such a luxury for this. He should address to a relevant m...
A little gem I think. I really liked white's 22.Bf1 and the plans that were hidden... and the game... Slovenec of 02.04.1939 ...thanx for reading
Nicolas Rossolimo was born in Kiev on Feb 28, 1910, by a father of Greek origin and a Russian mother. His father, Spiridon, left Russia in 1913 and settled in the American continent; according to Bertola [in europe-echecs] cause of suspicions arou...
In a previous blog I've tried to present interesting recent games via videos in a more fast-watching way; i.e. only with arrows and colored squares, so, combined with a pgn, to be seen either with or without words. Since then I discovered that thi...
Shortly after Alekhine's triumph in Bled 1931, the recently founded Ljubljana radio station invited some of the players for some comments-speeches and a rapid tournament to be broadcasted. This occurred on Sep 30 at 20:00 p.m.; and the players tha...
The 5th official world chess championship was played by Wilhelm Steinitz & Emanuel Lasker during March - May of 1894 in New York, Philadelphia & Montreal. from The Londonderry sifter, Jan 05, 1894 Steinitz, then at the age of 58, wa...
![Zatrikion. Chess in Byzantium [Eastern Roman Empire]](https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/v1/blog/560427.2dc46eb2.300x169o.795a5c937387.png)
In 1025 CE ca, a small byzantine merchant ship, something more than 15 m long, was carrying back to the wider region of Constantinople, glass artifacts and pottery from Syria of the Fatimid Caliphate. Probably seeking for shelter from a heavy weat...
The incomparable chess tournament, organized by the Excelsior, the Petit Parisien and the French Chess Federation, with the world champion of blindfold games, Mr. Alekhine, unfolded yesterday, in front of a large and attentive crowd, in the large ...
After reading a batgirl's blog on Elaine Rothwell's chess art, I've seen an etching with the title BQ3 [=Bd3]. It was inspired by white's 29th move from a game played by Castagna and Feldmann in Zurich in 1958. The artist had depicted the Byrne vs...
... or maybe more. On the occasion of the 1933 Dutch Chess Championship, won by Euwe, the Dutch Federation organized a following 8-player Honorary tournament in Scheveningen, the Hague. This took place from Jul 26 to Aug 1, 1933, with 5 Dutch pl...
After tracking a game of Henrique Mecking against Taimanov, for a previous blog, I got really interested in opposite color Bishop endgame theory. And started studying it as thoroughly as I could [I had already realized that my analysis of that gam...
A follow-up of my recent blog on chess during WWI. After the Great War was over, Bernhard Kagan organized a four-player tournament in Kerkau-Palast, Berlin. It lasted from Feb 21 to 26, 1919, and Bogoljubov won with 5/6. table from TNS 3/1919,...
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After a previous blog on chess in London during WWI, the idea of one equivalent for the Central Powers of the war felt attractive; but at first seemed a little difficult, so was left behind. I've recently tracked, however, some photos in the Austr...
It was in Yuri Averbach's History of chess [2012], where I've read firstly about a possible influence of ancient Greek board games on the invention or/and development of chess in India. An idea that seems to be supported by him since 1991. It felt...
Jean Bodel, an Old French poet of the 12th c., had distinguished three great cycles of the medieval chansons de geste; the matter of France [topic of a previous blog], the matter of Britain [on which some aspects here], and the matter of Rome. The...
In the subway, at a bus-station... wherever you have to wait with your i-something, a decent web signal, but not your earphones. This was the main idea of making short voiceless chess videos of the recently played games. My first intention was t...
After a previous post on chess scenes found in the chansons de geste of Charlemagne's cycle, next obviously should be the King Arthur's one. I don't know if it's the element of the legend of King Arthur or the fact that the texts were mostly of a ...
Already since July of 1913 articles appeared in the American press, informing that Jose Raoul Capablanca was employed by the Foreign Office of Cuba, so the Cuban Consulate at St. Petersburg to be staffed. A consulate that, as it was written, was n...
The above photo comes from Das interessante Blatt of Dec 22, 1898. Not a new find! It depicts Carl Schlechter playing blindfold at the Vienna Chess Club on Dec 04, 1898. The exhibition was for seven boards, arranged like a horseshoe, and lasted le...
