Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen competing in Linares in 2007.
Chess in Spain refers to Spain's contribution to the history of chess, from its integration around the 10th century to the present day. The Spanish received Shatranj, one of the predecessors of chess, from the Arabs during the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula between the 7th and 15th centuries. As chess spread to the rest of Europe, Spain contributed to the chess literature of the period, culminating with the Libro de los juegos (1283), commissioned by Alfonso X in the 13th century. Also of Spanish origin are the first archaeological pieces of evidence of the game on European soil: the Ager pieces, a set of medieval chess pieces dating from the 11th century, of abstract design and made of crystal, that belonged to Arnau Mir de Tost.
ChessinSpain refers to Spain's contribution to the history of chess, from its integration around the 10th century to the present day. The Spanish received...
governing body of chess in Spain, to determine the nation's chess champion. The first official championship was in 1928. ChessinSpainIn 2015, a Grandmaster...
Anna Yolanda Cramling Bellón (born 30 April 2002) is a Spanish-Swedish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman FIDE...
Europe via Spain (Al Andalus) and Italy (Emirate of Sicily). The game evolved roughly into its current form by about 1500 CE. "Romantic chess" was the predominant...
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...
The Linares International Chess Tournament (Spanish: Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares) was an annual chess tournament, usually played...
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion inchess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
Jaque (Spanish for the Chess move check) was a Spanishchess magazine, published twice a month in Valencia. It started in San Sebastian in 1970 and was...
The 36th Chess Olympiad (Spanish: La 36a Olimpíada de ajedrez; Catalan: La 36a Olimpíada d'escacs), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs...
chess, or rather its immediate precursor, known as shatranj, was introduced to Europe from the Islamic sphere, most likely via Iberia (modern Spain)...
representing a man in a boat. The prize was created and awarded in 1967 by Spanish journalist Jorge Puig, and the International Association of Chess Press [ru]...
body of chessinSpain, organiser of SpanishChess Championship Bus Feda, Irish bus company Forces Elèctriques d'Andorra, an electricity company in Andorra...
juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treaty of chess which...
چترنگ) is an old form of chess, as played in the Sasanian Empire. Its origins are in the Indian game of chaturaṅga. Modern chess gradually developed from...
rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal chess, and by boxing...
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms inchess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...
Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...
chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023. The tournament took place at the Palacio de Santoña in Madrid, Spain...
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess grandmaster. In 1992, she became the fifth woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster...
The Bilbao Chess Masters Final (previously called the Grand Slam Chess Final) is an annual chess tournament which between 2008-12 brought together the...
The Ruy Lopez (/rɔɪ, ˈruːi/; Spanish: [ˈruj ˈlopeθ]), also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1...
10 March 1997), also known as Sara Khadem (سارا خادم), is an Iranian-Spanishchess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster...
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...
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