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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Mak-yek (redirect from Rek Chess)
    Siamese Literature and documented the game as Maak yék. Another early description of the game is by H.J.R. Murray in his 1913 work A History of Chess, and...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    (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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    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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  • Adolf. His father was a shoemaker. As a child in Bonn, he enjoyed playing chess, soccer, tennis, and also competitive boxing. He also was a talented pianist...
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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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    -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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    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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    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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    Lord Dunsany (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
    writers. He was a chess and pistol champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted. He devised an asymmetrical game called Dunsany's chess. In later life,...
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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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  • Tennison Gambit (category 18th century in chess)
    The Tennison Gambit is a chess opening in which White gambits a pawn. The opening moves begin with either the Zukertort Opening: 1. Nf3 d5 2. e4 or the...
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    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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  • containing the pairs query=testing and database=English. In algebraic chess notation, some chess punctuation conventions include: "?" denotes a bad move, "??"...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Blood Sisters (1993), A History of the Breast (1997), A History of the Wife (2001), Birth of the Chess Queen (2004), The American Resting Place (2008) with...
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    (formerly Soviet) chess Grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all...
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    ISBN 978-0-313-33168-8. Gizycki, Jerzy. A History of Chess. London: Abbey Library, 1972. Print. Alex Goody (2011). Technology, Literature and Culture: Themes in twentieth...
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  • the attitude of tolerance led to Jewish integration into Arab-Islamic society.: 56  Social integration allowed Jews to make great advances in new fields...
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