the most common ways for chess historians to trace when the board game chess entered a country is to look at the literature of that country. Although...

chess game and this position arose. She appealed "Sacrifice your two Rooks, and not me." Chess in early literature History of chess Tamerlane chess Timeline...

century, it came into general use in German chess literature, and was subsequently adopted in Russian chess literature. In English-speaking countries, the...

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play for recreation. Chess in early literature Lewis chessmen Chess in Armenia Chess in Spain "The Little Chess Village, Part I". Chess.com. Retrieved 2019-05-14...

wins. In shatranj this is also a win, but only if the opponent cannot bare the player's king on his next turn. India portal Chess in early literature Liubo –...

if not the first, Internet-based chess news services. Chess in the arts and literature Chess in early literature Knight Moves Pawn Sacrifice Searching...

theory in all of these areas has been assisted by the vast literature on the game. In 1913, preeminent chess historian H. J. R. Murray wrote in his 900-page...

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...

World Champion. Chess History of chess Chess in early literature Chess in Europe Schools of chess Henry Davidson, A Short History of Chess, p. 6 Helena M...

Chess notation systems are used to record either the moves made or the position of the pieces in a game of chess. Chess notation is used in chess literature...

A chess opening book is a book on chess openings. This is by far the most common type of literature on chess. These books describe many major lines, like...

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...

algebraic notation to describe chess moves. In chess, an irregular opening is an opening considered unusual or unorthodox. In the early 19th century the term was...

Game is among the most famous chess games ever played. As a miniature game, it is frequently reproduced in chess literature to teach simple themes of gameplay...

Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 201, ISBN 0-19-866164-9. John Flood (8 September 2011). Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire:...

scachis, the earliest known reference to chess in a European text Chess in early literature History of chess Libro de los Juegos Negri, Sergio Ernesto...

Much literature about chess endgames has been produced in the form of books and magazines. A bibliography of endgame books is below. Many chess masters...

algebraic notation to describe chess moves. According to Réti, the opening was introduced into master play in the early part of 1923. Réti used the opening...

This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...

Computer Chess Championship. After a short break in 2012, TCEC was restarted in early 2013 (as nTCEC) and is currently active (renamed as TCEC in early 2014)...

was used in German chess literature in 1858 or earlier, and the first known use of the term in English was by World Champion Emanuel Lasker in 1905. The...

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 earliest...

American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964...

Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and...

"Verses on Chess"), also known as the Einsiedeln Poem in some literature, is the title given to a 10th-century Medieval Latin poem about chess. It is the...

A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen,...

Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 f5 Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the middlegame...

The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: 1. c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases...

historical miniature games recorded in chess literature. Fool's mate was named and described in The Royal Game of Chess-Play, a 1656 text by Francis Beale...