chess

     

Chess is a recreational an competitive game played between two players. Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally.

Trivia about chess

  • Experts suggest you begin this game by moving 1 or 2 pawns before bringing knights into play
  • In 1865 acting Idaho governor C. DeWitt Smith died after a strenuous match at this board game
  • Howard Staunton organized this board game's 1st international tournament in 1851 & Adolf Anderssen won
  • This board game requires a number of bishops, knights & pawns
  • You old school gamers, check out "The Gambit", a blog about this ancient game
  • Anatoly Karpov was world champion of this from 1975 until he lost to Gary Kasparov in 1985
  • In 1985, at age 22, Garry Kasparov became the youngest world champion of this
  • In 1978 Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to achieve the men's int'l grandmaster title in this
  • Check it out: in 2000, 17-year-old M.I.T. freshman Elina Groverman was the U.S. women's co-champ in this board game
  • In 1999 Maurice Ashley became the first black American international grandmaster in this
  • Queen,rook,pawn,knight
  • The organization that governs this board game is FIDE, the Federation Internationale des Echecs
  • In 1998 10-year-old Hikaru Nakamura became the USA's youngest master in this game
  • In chapter 1 Alice discusses this game with a cat
  • Garry Kasparov recently beat a computer program, Deep Thought, in a game of this
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the chalkboard) It's the classic game being represented here
  • The 1925 film "Shakhmatnaya Goryachka" centered on an excited participant in a tournament of this game
  • Online games you can play include Quake & this ancient battle to capture the opponent's king
  • An early version of this game in India was called Chaturanga & used elephants, horses, chariots & foot soldiers
  • In 1967 Richard Greenblatt's program Mac Hack 6 became an hon. member of the U.S. Federation for this game
  • During a match of this ancient game, you might move one of your pieces to queen's bishop three
  • Alexander Khalifman,Anatoly Karpov,Garry Kasparov
  • Emmanuel Lasker was world champion of this game from 1894 until defeated by Capablanca in 1921
  • The first important U.S. tournament in this board game took place in New York City in 1857
  • 64, a magazine devoted to this game, is from Russia, home of champions at it like Khalifman & Kramnik
  • Honest knights do battle both in the joust & upon a giant board for this olde game
  • Shogi is a Japanese variant of this board game but captured pieces can be used by the opponent
  • After losing at this, grandmaster Aron Nimzovich once jumped on a table & shouted, "Why must I lose to this idiot?"
  • Emo Philips: A computer "once beat me at" this game "but it was no match for me at kickboxing"
  • In 1997 14-year-old Etienne Bacrat became the youngest ever grand master of this game
  • It was Topalov vs. Anand for the 2010 world title in this board game
  • The Knight's Tour & 8 Queens are logic puzzles using this game's board & its pieces
  • Mikhail Botvinnik, a world champion at this, was a teacher of Garry Kasparov
  • The ICGA website tells us Deep Fritz, this type of program, earned a draw with Vladimir Kramnik
  • A lively match at this board game is under way, & I do believe that's the Tartakower Variation on the Torre Attack
  • In a Tim Rice musical, Frederick & Anatoly vie to be world champion of this game