events inchessin1939. Last (21st) edition of Howard Staunton's The Chess-Player's Handbook is published. 21 August-19 September 1939 - the 8th Chess Olympiad...
magazines: Chess Life and Chess Life for Kids. The USCF was founded and incorporated in Illinois in1939, from the merger of two older chess organizations...
Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell...
used by the Correspondence Chess League of America in1939. Soviet player Andrey Khachaturov proposed a similar system in 1946. The first one that made...
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion inchess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess...
in Buenos Aires, immediately after the 8th Chess Olympiad, from 2nd to 19 October 1939 at the Círculo de Ajedrez, one of the two main chess clubs in the...
The 1939 USSR Chess Championship was the 11th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 15 April to 16 May 1939in Leningrad. The tournament was won...
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...
organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. FIDE...
the strongest chess tournaments in history. The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as...
were considered too trivial for inclusion in the catalogue. The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules...
British Chess Championships are organised by the English Chess Federation. The main tournament incorporates the British Championship, the English Chess Championships...
French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players...
The world records inchess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the...
The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body...
how the game should be played in each of these phases, especially the opening and endgame. Those who write about chess theory, who are often also eminent...
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
The USSR Chess Federation (Russian: Шахматная федерация СССР, Shakhmatnaya fyedyeratsiya SSSR) was the national organization for chessin the USSR. It...
1997) was a Polish–Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War II began in1939, and he stayed and settled there...
(+1−2=10); In1939, at first board at the 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+7−3=7); In 1950, at first board at the 9th Chess Olympiad in Dubrovnik (+5−5=5)...
This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...
The AVRO tournament was a famous chess tournament held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double...
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