The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship. It had nine...

A prodigy, Morphy emerged onto the chess scene in 1857 by convincingly winning the First American Chess Congress, winning each match by a large margin...

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The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...

started the American Chess Magazine in 1846, which together with The Chess Palladium and Mathematical Sphinx were the first American chess magazines. However...

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Book of the First American Chess Congress, published by Daniel Willard Fiske in 1857. The account, "The Automaton Chess-Player in America", was written by...

Congress (founded in 1927). A chess congress is a chess tournament, in one city, where a large number of contestants gather to play competitive chess...

the tournament became the American Chess Federation congress. In 1939, that organization merged into the United States Chess Federation (USCF) and the...

a cameo appearance along with Capablanca. In 1920, he won the American Chess Congress. In 1922, Marshall played 155 games simultaneously at the National...

games lost in a single tournament: he lost 31 games at the Sixth American Chess Congress at New York 1889, while winning six and drawing one. MacLeod was...

see the famous game Louis Paulsen–Paul Morphy from the First American Chess Congress (1857). In recent years, Black has tried 4...Bd6!? with varying...

and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician...

Perrin, the Secretary of the New York Chess Club, informed those assembled at the First American Chess Congress that he had received a letter from Johann...

American Chess Monthly, founded in January 1857 by Willard Fiske, who had helped organize the First American Chess Congress. Fiske edited American Chess...

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major errors. Paulsen played in the final match of the 1857 First American Chess Congress, losing to Paul Morphy five games to one with two draws. In 1862...

James Mason (19 November 1849 – 12 January 1905) was a British-American chess player, journalist and writer who became one of the world's best half-dozen...

a tournament. One of the earliest evidences is with the Fifth American Chess Congress in 1880, when Preston Ware accused James Grundy of reneging on...

of the first American chess congress and, in particular, the section dedicated to “The history of the Automaton Chess-Player in America”. The brief biography...

such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...

However, his result in that tournament was outstanding. In the Fifth American Chess Congress, held in New York City in January 1880, Grundy tied for first with...

competed in the first, second, fourth and fifth American Chess Congresses. At the Fifth American Chess Congress in 1880, Ware accused James Grundy of reneging...

only two significant chess tournaments: the Second and Third American Chess Congresses in 1871 and 1874. The first modern chess tournament was not held...

The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to...

The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year. The main...

occur until 1933, when the prolific American chess authors Fred Reinfeld and Irving Chernev used it in their book Chess Strategy and Tactics. This article...

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day Fédération Internationale...

who was also an American chess master. A writer in the New York Times, describing the players in the Sixth American Chess Congress (1889), portrayed...

controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a particular variation...