The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...
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on Rubinstein's gravestone, is correct. Rubinstein's DOB, Chess History & Literature Society, 19 Apr 2014 Šahović was assigned FIDE ID 901644, but after...
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Lewis chessmen (redirect from Lewis Chess Set)
a scholar of early vernacular literature, but he was especially intrigued by these artifacts because he was a chess enthusiast. Madden immediately began...
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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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Akiba Rubinstein (category 20th-century chess players)
Rubinstein's death, Chess History & Literature Society, 30 August 2021, retrieved 5 December 2022 "Rubinstein-Alekhine, Karlsbad 1911". ChessBase. 12 January...
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Mikhail Tal (redirect from Tal (chess))
genius and is widely regarded as one of the most influential players in chess history. Tal played in an attacking and daring combinatorial style. His play...
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(1905), Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic literature, with historical notes on other table games (1905), The Florentine typographical society Golombek...
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Vera Menchik (category Women's world chess champions)
2007). "Life story of female prodigy Sonja Graf-Stevenson". Chess History & Literature Society. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Tanner 2016, pp. 231–235. Tanner...
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Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career))
1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight...
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Chaturanga (category History of chess)
portal Chess in early literature Liubo – An ancient Chinese board game for two players Origins of chess Murray, H. J. R. (1913). A History of Chess. Benjamin...
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"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in...
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Literature of Kashmir has a long history, the oldest texts having been composed in the Sanskrit language. Early names include Patanjali, the author of...
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15th century in poetry 14th century in literature 16th century in literature List of years in literature "History of Guildhall Library". City of London...
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user’s societies. Some of these programs would later be distributed as type-in listings via books and magazines. The first national competition of chess programs...
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Board game (redirect from History of board games)
displacement (such as chess). Board games have been played, traveled, and evolved in most cultures and societies throughout history. Several important historical...
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Novella (redirect from Novelette (literature))
Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's Die Schachnovelle (1942) (literally, "The Chess Novella", but translated in 1944 as The Royal Game) is an example of a title...
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-indian-games-of-pachisi-chaupar-and-chausar/ "Iran Chamber Society: Sport in Iran: CHESS, Iranian or Indian Invention?". iranchamber.com. Retrieved 29...
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Romanticism (redirect from Romanticism (literature))
strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature; it also had a major impact on historiography, education, chess, social sciences, and the natural sciences...
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William Jones (philologist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
the institution of a society for enquiring into the history, civil and natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia (London: T. Payne...
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family in Mandrem (Manjari) Goa. An Englishman, noticing his acumen at chess convinced his father to give the boy an English education. Bhau moved to...
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Henry Thomas Buckle (redirect from History of Civilization in England)
of an unfinished History of Civilization, and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called "the Father of Scientific History". Buckle, the son...
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international chess tournament of 1925, the hero (Vladimir Fogel) and heroine (Anna Zemtsova) of the story are engaged to be married. Caught up in a society-wide...
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Pearce J (March 22, 2007). "Dr. Stella Chess, Child Development Specialist, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Chess, Stella (January 1, 1971). "Autism in...
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Victor Keats (category Chess historians)
FRHS is a British chess historian and fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has written a number of books on the history of chess with particular reference...
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Through the Looking-Glass (category Novels about chess)
book by Gena Showalter. Novels portal Children's literature portal United Kingdom portal Alice Chess "I Am the Walrus" Translations of Alice's Adventures...
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Fidchell (redirect from Irish chess)
Érenn. Dublin, EI: Irish Texts Society. Part IV, §VII, first redaction, ¶316. H.J.R. Murray (1913), A History of Chess, page 420, 746. "Fitchneal". Historic...
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popular. Popular sports include football, handball, athletics, basketball, chess, golf, volleyball, tennis, skiing, snowboarding, ice hockey, swimming, rock...
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Wilhelm Steinitz (category American chess players)
a highly influential writer and chess theoretician. When discussing chess history from the 1850s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz could...
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Libro de los juegos (category 13th century in chess)
Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treaty of chess which synthesized the information from...
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