invitation chess tournament was part of the event (London 1851, London 1862, Paris 1867, Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876, Paris 1878, Paris 1900). The...

1931 chess tournament Nottingham 1936 chess tournament Nuremberg 1896 chess tournament Ostend 1907 chess tournament Paris 1867 chess tournament Paris 1878...

placed third at the Paris 1867 chess tournament, behind Kolisch and Szymon Winawer; he placed second at the Dundee 1867 tournament, behind Gustav Neumann;...

world, according to chessmetrics.com. He played in the strong Paris 1867 chess tournament (won by Ignatz von Kolisch) with little success, placing near...

international chess tournaments were also held at six other expositions: London 1851, London 1862, Paris 1867, Vienna 1873, Philadelphia 1876 and Paris 1878....

Chess Association"), today Denmark's oldest chess club, and held that position for many years. He tied for 12–13th in the Paris 1867 chess tournament...

with earlier major tournaments such as London 1851 chess tournament, London 1862 chess tournament and Paris 1867 chess tournament, there were two major...

difficulties. The 1867 Paris tournament even ignored draws altogether, effectively treating them as double losses. The 1867 Dundee tournament initiated the...

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...

early examples are Lichtenhein–Morphy, New York 1857; Rosenthal–De Vere, Paris 1867; and Tartakower–José Raúl Capablanca, New York 1924. The first known use...

Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879) was a German chess master. He won the great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost matches to Paul Morphy...

Dadian won his first tournament at Homberg that year. In 1867 Dadian met Ignatz Kolisch who had just won the Paris tournament. He played Kolisch and...

earlier, Danish player Martin Severin From essayed the gambit in the Paris 1867 tournament and he is usually given credit for the opening. The Danish Gambit...

Arnous de Rivière (4 May 1830, Nantes – 11 September 1905, Paris) was the strongest French chess player from the late 1850s through the late 1870s. He is...

Blindfold chess, also known as sans voir, is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This...

This is a timeline of chess. 6th century – The game chaturanga probably evolved into its current form around this time in India. 569 – A Chinese emperor...

The Café de la Régence in Paris was an important European centre of chess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess masters of the time played...

at Leipzig in 1877; tied for first with Simon Winawer at the Paris 1878 chess tournament and beat Winawer in the playoff; second at Berlin in 1881, behind...

November 29, 1919) was a Polish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883. At the Paris 1867 tournament held at the Café de la Régence...

Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages. The...

tournament play. In the next few years he took: third place at Paris 1867 behind Ignatz Kolisch and Simon Winawer; and second place at Dundee (1867;...

his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. He took part in the famous Paris 1867 tournament where he tied for 7–8th (Ignatz von Kolisch won). In matches, he...

death in 1925 from a stroke. Burn's first tournament, in 1867–68, was a handicap tournament at the Liverpool Chess Club. Placed in the second level, where...

to Paris and in 1869 to Vienna. He became involved in banking and became a millionaire and chess patron, organizing and sponsoring important chess tournaments...

international tournaments took place in Great Britain until Paris 1867. Contemporaries, including Steinitz and Morphy, regarded Staunton's writings on chess openings...

professional chess career that spanned over 50 years. At one point he was one of the world's leading players, with a string of tournament victories behind...

article lists some of the famous small chess tournaments in history. The list comprises only regular tournaments with three or four players (Triangular...

Holloway (6 December 1867 – 8 May 1956) was a volunteer nurse in Serbia during World War I [citation needed] and a British chess player. She was the daughter...

retired from the army. Mackenzie began to practice chess in 1853, and in 1862 he won a handicap tournament in London in which he defeated Adolf Anderssen...

Kārlis Bētiņš (German: Carl Behting; 27 October 1867, Bērzmuiža – 28 March 1943, Riga) was a Latvian chess master and composer of studies. He tied for 3rd-5th...