I just returned home from a tournament that shaped my chess journey into a long-lasting love (and sometimes hate) relationship. I stopped playing competitively some time ago but chess somehow found its way into my mind yet again, resulting in my 6...
Steinitz's successor, mathematician, philosopher a friend of Albert Einstein - all of this characterises the second official world champion, Emanuel Lasker. Born on Christmas Eve in 1868, Emanuel had a gift for a variety of things. When he was 12 ...
Wilhelm Steinitz ( 14.5.1836 - 12.8.1900) 1st official world chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz was born in May of 1836 to a family of 13 children ( he was 9th, however, 4 children died at an early age which is why he referred to himself as 13th)....
19th century was the period of chess artists. Players like Anderrsen played breathtaking games that amaze chess players even today. Beautiful combinations filled with sacrifices eventually leading towards checkmate leave players around the world s...
Sometime after Howard Staunton made himself quite a name in the chess world, his dream to create an international chess tournament came true during the Great Exhibition in 1851.16 players from Hungary, France, and other nations competed in a knock...
The clash between England and France continued even after the death of Alexander Mac Donnell and Louis-Charles De la Bourdonnais, with two new protagonists: Howard Staunton (1810-1874) and Pierre Charles de Saint Amant(1800-1872). Howard Staunton...
After Philidor's death in 1795, Europe was struggling to find an equally strong chess player. In the first half of 19th century two players were prepared to take the chess world for themselves : Louis Charles de Labourdonnais (1795-1840) and Alexa...
Chess has become in recent years due to major technological advancements a game filled with precision.Each day we are getting closer and closer to ultimately solving the game.However,things were not always like this.Old masters of the game such as...
Chess is.... Many famous masters of this game proposed different answers to this question. I incline more towards the statement that chess is a form of art. And the purest form of art in chess are : Chess compositions. In this article I will show ...
