British Chess Problem Society is considered the oldest chess problem society in the world. The inaugural meeting of the British Chess Problem Society...
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who published a chess problem using the rules in The Problemist (the magazine of the British Chess Problem Society) in 1975. Patrol chess has often been...
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Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement. These were published by the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS) as an offshoot of their magazine The Problemist which...
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conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some unorthodox chess problems, known as fairy chess. Compared to conventional pieces, fairy...
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Chess Federation Polish Chess Federation Portuguese Chess Federation Chess Scotland Turkish Chess Federation Welsh Chess Union British Chess Problem Society...
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741,823). The problem appears in different stories about the invention of chess. One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is...
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The Problemist (category Chess problems)
bimonthly chess problem magazine which has been in publication since January 1926. It originally had the subtitle "Proceedings of the British Chess Problem Society"...
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Beasley, John D., ed. (January 2010). "Grand Chess". Variant Chess. Vol. 8, no. 63. British Chess Variants Society. pp. 142–44. ISSN 0958-8248. Gardner, Tony...
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Pure mate (category Chess problems)
"Threemovers". British Chess Problem Society. Hooper & Whyld, p. 201. Jelliss, George (2002). "A Guide to Variant Chess: Chess Problem Terms". Horton...
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addition to orthodox chess. In the context of chess problems, chess variants are called heterodox chess or fairy chess. Fairy chess variants tend to be...
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Michael Lipton (category Chess players from London)
(2016). His 1956 lecture to the British Chess Problem Society titled "The German Two-Mover" contributed to Britain's development to the forefront of the...
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Economical mate (category Chess problems)
2015). The Soviet Chess Primer. Quality Chess. p. 377. ISBN 9781907982996. McDowell, Michael. "Threemovers". British Chess Problem Society. "Paul Morphy vs...
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as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following...
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Chess960 (redirect from Fischerandom chess)
article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...
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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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British ship and settled in France. The British Chess Problem Society held its inaugural meeting on 10 August. It is the world's oldest chess problem...
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Thomas Rayner Dawson (category British chess writers)
of the British Chess Problem Society. He subsequently produced The Fairy Chess Review (1930–1951), which began as The Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement...
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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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Charles Masson Fox (category British chess writers)
of chess. He was elected President of the Cornwall Chess Association, played a prominent part in the development of the British Chess Problem Society, and...
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Emanuel Lasker (redirect from Lasker's Chess Magazine)
1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years...
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Gerald Frank Anderson (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
stationed at the British Embassy in Washington. In addition, the British Chess Problem Society published a collection of his problems in 1974 entitled...
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under the name Freidig. The inaugural meeting of the British Chess Problem Society, the oldest society of its kind in the world, was held in London with...
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The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to...
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Johannes Zukertort (category British chess players)
British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess...
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Gyula Neukomm. The WFCC delegates are nominated by national problem societies and chess problem specialists. The original PCCC was created in 1956, with...
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Demis Hassabis (category Chess Candidate Masters)
programmer and designer, and an expert board games player. A child prodigy in chess from the age of four, Hassabis reached master standard at the age of 13...
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The Queen's Gambit (miniseries) (category 2020 in chess)
Wexler, a strong player and chess problem enthusiast, friend of Benny Jonjo O'Neill as Mr. Ganz, a local high school chess club teacher who invites a young...
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Index of joke types (category Society-related lists)
Hindu joke Holocaust humor In-joke In Soviet Russia Jewish humor Joke chess problem Knock-knock joke Lawyer joke Lightbulb joke Little rabbit jokes Mathematical...
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Chess libraries are library collections of books and periodicals on the game of chess. In 1913, preeminent chess historian H. J. R. Murray estimated the...
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Mechanical Turk (redirect from Automaton Chess Player)
as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine...
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