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....

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

international tournament is held in London, and won by  Adolf Anderssen (Prussia). 1852 – Sandglasses are first used to time a game. 1857 – First American Chess Congress...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

after 1872. In 1864–1867, together with Anderssen, he founded and edited the Neue Berliner Schachzeitung. After giving up chess completely due to a nervous...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

mathematics, and achieved the worst result ever recorded in an international chess tournament. Colonel Moreau's military career is given by documents on the Legion...

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...

in Paris. Rosenthal won the Café de la Régence championship in 1865, 1866, and 1867 in Paris, and became the strongest French chess player. In 1867, he...

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