Chess History Center
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Notes and features on the history of chess.
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Feature articles include:
The Berlin Defence (Ruy López) Chess Proverbs Repetition of Position or Moves in Chess Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Aliens Announced Mates Agatha Christie and Chess Incomplete Games of Chess Gaffes by Chess Publishers and Authors Pet Moves in Chess Retirement from Chess Unintelligible Chess Writing Pictures of Howard Staunton Chess Puzzles Advice on Playing Chess A Book on Lasker Hype in Chess Chess Problems The Homes of Chess Masters Chess and Alcohol Chess and Poverty Excuses for Losing at Chess Schuster v Carls Capablanca v Kalantarov An Anderssen Loss? A Brilliancy by Hermann Helms Interviews with Alekhine Chess Pen Portraits Boden’s Mate Chess in Advertisements Chess and Hypnosis Chess and Christmas Chess and Time Tony Miles (1955-2001) Capablanca in London, 1913 Patriotism, Nationalism, Jingoism and Racism in Chess Anderssen v Zukertort Chess Statues and Sculpture The ‘Magnus Smith Trap’ Simultaneous Games Euwe and Alekhine on their 1937 Match The Gibaud v Lazard Gamelet An Alekhine Miniature Macdonald v Burn, Liverpool, 1910 Chess: the Need for Sources Chess and Computers How to Write about Chess Chess Grandmasters Clive James and Chess Jacob Bronowski and Chess Stephen Fry and Chess Chess and Murder Chess and The Prisoner Lasker on the 1921 World Championship Match Chess Cartoons by Tom Webster The Laws of Chess (1912) The Laws of Chess (1931) An Alekhine Blindfold Game Chess: Jacqueline and Gregor Piatigorsky ‘Life’s too short for chess’ Capablanca v Steiner (Living Chess) Hypermodern Chess An Obscure Chess Master A Chess Database En prise (Chess Term) Chess and War Boris Spassky Chess Combinations Chess and Psychology Rosanes v Anderssen, Breslau, 1863 Najdorf against the French Defence Chess and Poetry The Value of the Chess Pieces Chess Myths The World Chess Championship by Paul Keres My 61 Memorable Games (Bobby Fischer) Kasparov v Miles, Basle, 1986 Svetozar Gligoric' (1923-2012) Chess History: Photograph Collections Chess Masters on Film Ernst Ludwig Klein Stefan Zweig and Chess Edgar Allan Poe and Chess Luck in Chess Lasker v Janowsky, Paris, 1909 Chess History Research On-Line Photographs of Nottingham, 1936 Nimzowitsch v Alapin ?????? ????????? ? ??????? A Fischer v Gligoric' Training Game A Letter from Bobby Fischer to Pal Benko ????? ? ??????? Chess: Prodigies, Philosophy and Mathematics Chess and Radio A Chess Divan in the Strand ???????? Chess: The Greatest Chess Autographs Photographs of Capablanca The Caro-Kann Defence Grimshaw v Steinitz Books about Keres and Tal Paul Morphy and Chess Politics Ricardo Calvo: Persona non Grata Chess: The History of FIDE FIDE: The Prehistory Vassily Smyslov (1921-2010) Fast Chess Chess and Hollywood Chess and Television The Cambridge v Bedlam Chess Story Reuben Fine, Chess and Psychology Fischer’s Views on Chess Masters The Chess Historian H.J.R. Murray A Fischer Interview Bribery in the Chess World Chess Anecdotes The Spite Sacrifice in Chess The Frank Hollings Conundrum Kasparov Interviews Anthony E. Santasiere Charles Dickens and Chess Chess Journalism and Ethics Chess Ratings and Titles A Pawn Ending Mystery The Australian Nimzowitsch The Smothered Mate Franklin Knowles Young The Kings of Chess Confusion Alekhine’s Defence Jacques Mieses Steinitz, Lasker, Potter and ‘Modern Chess’ Dr Lasker’s Chess History Chess Camouflage Publications John Ruskin and Chess Capablanca v Fine: A Missed Win Bent Larsen (1935-2010) S. Lipschütz – Samuel, Simon or Solomon? Akiba Rubinstein’s Later Years World Chess Championship Rules Chess and the English Language Chess Jottings Instant Chess CHESS The Musical Fischer’s Chess Column in Boys’ Life Andrew Bonar Law and Chess The Garry Kaspartov Scam Chess Photograph and Signatures Larousse du jeu d’échecs A Chess-Billiards Concoction The Alekhine v Nenarokov Hoax The Pride and Sorrow of Chess What is a Chess Combination? Chess, Literature, and Film Cuttings Chess Morganisms Réti v Tartakower, Vienna, 1910 The Riddle of Swiderski’s Suicide The Chess Prodigy Rodrigo Flores Karpov’s Writings Confusion over Alekhine v Najdorf Kasparov’s How Life Imitates Chess Capablanca’s Death Graves of Chess Masters Why ‘Morphy’s Defence’? Daniel Starbuck (1856-1884) The 1986 FIDE Presidential Election Books about Anand, Carlsen, Gelfand, Kramnik and Topalov Chess: Hitler and Nazi Germany Wade v Bennett The Marshall Gambit Professor Isaac Rice and the Rice Gambit Sergei Prokofiev and Chess Amsterdam, 1954: A Chess Photograph Who Was Birdie Reeve? New York, 1915: A Chess Photograph Ely Culbertson and Chess Morrison v Capablanca, London, 1922 London, 1899 Pen-portraits The Polish Immortal A Question of Credibility The 1936 Munich Chess Olympiad Old Opening Assessments Comic Relief FIDE Championship (1928) An Indian Copying Mystery Capablanca Book Destroyed Warriors of the Mind A Unique Chess Writer Steinitz v von Bardeleben Attacks on Howard Staunton Chess Corn Corner Capablanca in New York World (1925) Fischer Mysteries Memory Feats of Chess Masters The Chess-loving Puzzle-master Rupert Brooke and Chess Master Roberts Nimzowitsch the ‘Crown Prince’ The Rubinstein Trap Large Simultaneous Displays The Chess Wit and Wisdom of W.E. Napier The Most Famous Chess Quotations A Great Chess Figure Pachman, Bohatirchuk and Politics Alfred Kreymborg and Chess Hans Frank and Chess Signed Chess Books Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Chess Books about Korchnoi and Karpov The London Rules Chess and British Royalty Chess and Untimely Death Notices The Horowitz-Wellmuth Affair The Guinness World Records Slump Chess and the Wallace Murder Case Steinitz versus God Tolstoy and Chess Léonardus Nardus Chess and Sherlock Holmes The Réti Brothers Steinitz Stuck and Capa Caught The Consultation Game That Never Was Chess and Bridge The Caissa-Morphy Puzzle Long Calculation Lord Dunsany and Chess The Capablanca-Pokorny Fiasco ‘Fun’ Morphy v the Duke and Count Koltanowski The Fox Enigma Chaos in a Miniature The Mysterious Frederick D. Rosebault Capablanca’s Reply to Lasker Alekhine on Munich, 1941 Early Uses of ‘World Chess Champion’ Capablanca Interviewed in 1939 A Lecture by Capablanca (1932) Capablanca on San Sebastián, 1912 Capablanca on Maróczy Capablanca on Moscow, 1925 Capablanca in the English Review Capablanca: How I Learned to Play Chess Reminiscences by Capablanca Chess and the House of Commons Steinitz Quotes Capablanca on his Predecessors ‘Genius’ Sultan Khan Gossip Two Alekhine Interviews (1941) Marshall’s ‘Gold Coins’ Game Chess in the Courts Adams v Torre – A Sham? International Language Alexander McDonnell Breyer and the Last Throes A Nimzowitsch Story The Saburovs Capablanca v Alekhine, 1927 A Chess Hoax Who Was R.J. Buckley? A Chessplaying Astronomer A Fake Chess Photograph A Chess Whodunit Chess with Violence The Genius and the Princess Capablanca v Fonaroff Alekhine Renaissance Alekhine’s Death Janowsky Jottings Chess in 1924 The Chess Seesaw Mysteries at Sabadell, 1945 How Capablanca Became World Champion Interregnum Kasparov, Karpov and the Scotch Stalemate Royal Walkabouts Chess and Jews Chess and Music Worst-ever Chess Book? A Chess Idealist Seven Alekhine Articles Reinfeld’s Non-Chess Books ‘The Swiss Gambit’ The Knight Challenge James A. Leonard Alekhine on Carlsbad, 1929 Chess and Women Chess Records Chess and Shakespeare The Very Best Chess Books Books about Capablanca and Alekhine Unusual Chess Words Earliest Occurrences of Chess Terms Kasparov and his Predecessors Chessplayer Shot Dead in Hastings Immortal but Unknown Chessy Words A Forgotten Showman Copying Jaffe and his Primer Analytical Disaccord Pillsbury’s Torment Books about Fischer and Kasparov A Sorry Case A Publishing Scandal The Games of Alekhine Chess Awards Wanted Two Edge Letters to Fiske Kasparov’s Child of Change Chess Prodigies The Termination Zugzwang Petrosian’s Games Searching for Bobby Fischer (Josh Waitzkin) World Championship Disorder Instant Fischer Disappeared Karpov’s Chess is My Life Historical Havoc Copyright on Chess Games Was Alekhine a Nazi? Jeremy Gaige A Catastrophic Encyclopedia Capablanca Goes Algebraic Edge, Morphy and Staunton World Champion Combinations Over and Out A Chessplaying Statesman Napoleon Bonaparte and Chess The Facts about Larry Evans War Crimes Fischer’s Fury Where Did They Live?
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