List of chess historians information

This is a list of chess historians. Yuri Averbakh Henry Bird Ricardo Calvo (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002) Hiram Cox G. H. Diggle David Vincent...

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The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...

chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess...

This list of Russian historians includes the famous historians, as well as archaeologists, paleographers, genealogists and other representatives of auxiliary...

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...

pieces of unorthodox chess, from fairy chess problems and chess variants (including historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces....

China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning silver medals at the Olympiad in 2010, 2012, and 2014; the men's team winning gold at the...

1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved...

to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champion in history. In his prime, Lasker was one of the most dominant champions...

chess and Chinese chess. However, many Persian game historians reject the claim that xiangqi or other chess variants derive from liubo. Emperor Wu of...

One of 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...

anarchists List of Jewish chess players List of Jewish economists List of Jewish feminists List of Jewish historians List of Jewish mathematicians List of Jewish...

British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of The Oxford Companion to Chess, a single-volume chess reference...

1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy...

Cylinder chess is one of six chess variants described by the Arabic historian Ali al-Masudi in 947. The cylindrical board is used in some chess problems...

Mikhail Gershenzon, historian Bianna Golodryga, journalist Nachum Gutman, painter Idel Ianchelevici, sculptor Mona May Karff, chess player Boris Katz,...

represent a small minority of chess players at all ages and levels. Female chess players today generally compete in a mix of open tournaments and women's...

Circular chess is a chess variant played using the standard set of pieces on a circular board consisting of four rings, each of sixteen squares. This is...

first endnote of Birth of the Chess Queen: A History, Murray's 900-page book constitutes the Bible of chess historians. With his knowledge of numerous languages...

correspondence chess was already played in the 12th century. Most chess historians doubt whether this is true. In the 19th century chess clubs and magazines...

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...

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on the game. In 1913, preeminent chess historian H. J. R. Murray wrote in his 900-page magnum opus A History of Chess that, "The game possesses a literature...

[ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move;...

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...