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on Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:50am.
Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess," was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion.[1] He w... Read more »
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on Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:45am.
In 1909, at the age of 20, Capablanca won a match against US champion Frank Marshall by +8-1=14. This was a comparable margin to Marshall's World Championship loss (+8-0=7) to Emanuel Lasker in 1907. Capablanca won the New York State Ch... Read more »
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on Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:46am.
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 – March 8, 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. He is often referred to as a candidate for the greatest chess player of all tim... Read more »
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on Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:29am.
Standard handicap system: The following system was used by chess players in 18th and 19th centuries when playing for money stakes (in increasing handicap level; the stronger player gets white unless otherwise indicated): Move: Weaker player gets w... Read more »
Submitted by
on Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:20am.
The first international chess tournament was the London Tourney of 1851, won by Adolf Anderssen of Germany, who then became known UNOFFICIALLY as the world's best chess player, though he did not receive any award or title. T... Read more »
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on Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:10am.
The game of chess is thought to have originated in what is now northern India or Afganistan sometime before 6OO AD: the oldest written references to chess date from then, but there are unverified claims that chess existed as early as 100 AD. The K... Read more »
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on Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:49am.
Deep Blue is actually the technical descendant of an earlier supercomputer, called Deep Thought—named in honor of a famously fictional computer that also needed help from humans. WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE DEEP THOUGHT NAME FOR THE EARLY CHES... Read more »
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on Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:56am.
This is a blog that I have turned into a way to save my games and evaluate them - not really for the public benefit but if you want to see some really crappy games then go ahead... Read more »