"The Game of the Century (chess) In chess, The Game of the Century is a chess game played between 26-year-old Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. The competition took place at the Marshall Chess Club. It was nicknamed ""The Game of the Century"" by Hans Kmoch in ""Chess Review"". Kmoch wrote, ""The following game, a stunning masterpiece of play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies."" Donald Byrne (1930–1976) was"
"The Morals of Chess The Morals of Chess is an essay on chess by the American intellectual Benjamin Franklin, which was first published in ""The Columbian Magazine"" in December 1786. Franklin, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, played chess from at least 1733. Evidence suggests that he was an above-average player, who, however, did not reach the top level. He outlined the essay around 1732, but did not publish it until 1786. After a short prologue in which Franklin details the history of chess he gets to the main part of his essay. He compares"
"It still is widely reproduced, especially on the Internet. In 1999 Franklin was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. The Morals of Chess The Morals of Chess is an essay on chess by the American intellectual Benjamin Franklin, which was first published in ""The Columbian Magazine"" in December 1786. Franklin, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, played chess from at least 1733. Evidence suggests that he was an above-average player, who, however, did not reach the top level. He outlined the essay around 1732, but did not publish it until 1786. After a"
"The Game of Chinese Chess The Game of Chinese Chess or The Game of Chinese Checkers (French - ""Le jeu d'échets chinois"") is a drawing by the French artist François Boucher, showing an orientalised image of two people playing Xiangqi - actual Xiangqi pieces are all round, whereas the shapes of the pieces in the drawing are more varied. It is best known through the 39.4 by 27.7 cm engraving made after it by the Englishman John Ingram (1721 - c.1771; fl. 1763). It was part of a series of etchings he made of Boucher's chinoiserie subjects between 1741 and"
"The Royal Game The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, ""Chess Novella"") is a novella by Austrian author Stefan Zweig first published in 1941, just before the author's death by suicide. In some editions, the title is used for a collection that also includes ""Amok"", ""Burning Secret"", ""Fear"", and ""Letter From an Unknown Woman"". Driven to mental anguish as the result of total isolation by the National Socialists, Dr B, a monarchist hiding valuable assets of the nobility from the new regime, maintains his sanity only through the theft of a book of past"
"Chess (poem) Chess () is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski, first published in 1564 or 1565. Inspired by Marco Girolamo Vida's ""Scacchia Ludus"", it is a narrative poetry work that describes a game of chess between two men, Fiedor and Borzuj, who fight for the right to marry Anna, princess of Denmark. The poem anthropomorphises the pieces, presenting the game as a battle between two armies, in a style reminiscent of battle scenes in the works of Homer and Virgil. In 1912, Alexander Wagner reconstructed the game described in the poem, while Yuri Averbakh found that it has three"
"Solomon W. Golomb Solomon Wolf Golomb (; May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016) was an American mathematician, engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known for his works on mathematical games. Most notably, he invented Cheskers in 1948 and coined the name. He also fully described polyominoes and pentominoes in 1953. He specialized in problems of combinatorial analysis, number theory, coding theory, and communications. His game of pentomino inspired Tetris. Golomb, a graduate of the Baltimore City College high school, received his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and master's and doctorate degree"
"the engraving with a shorter central inscription is also in the Metropolitan Museum. The Game of Chinese Chess The Game of Chinese Chess or The Game of Chinese Checkers (French - ""Le jeu d'échets chinois"") is a drawing by the French artist François Boucher, showing an orientalised image of two people playing Xiangqi - actual Xiangqi pieces are all round, whereas the shapes of the pieces in the drawing are more varied. It is best known through the 39.4 by 27.7 cm engraving made after it by the Englishman John Ingram (1721 - c.1771; fl. 1763). It was part of"
"A History of Chess The book A History of Chess was written by H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) and published in 1913. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the beginning of the 7th century. The first part of the book"
"Alice Chess Alice Chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration to the standard rules of chess. The game is named after the main character ""Alice"" in Lewis Carroll's work ""Through the Looking-Glass"", where transport through the mirror into an alternate world is portrayed on the chessboards by the after-move transfer of chess pieces between boards A and B. This simple transfer rule is well known for causing disorientation and confusion in players new to the game, often leading to surprises and amusing"
"1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. f4 Bxg1? 4. Rxg1 Nc6 5. fxe5 Nxe5 6. d4 Ng6 7. Qf3 c6? 8. Bc4 Qf6 9. Qxf6 Nxf6 10. e5 Nh5 Losing a piece. 11. g3 Ne7 12. g4 b5 13. Bd3 Bb7 14. gxh5 Kf8 15. Ne4 Nc8? Losing another piece. 16. Nc5 Rb8? 17. Nxd7+ 1–0 Burn commented, ""Mr. Freeborough is so constant a writer on the theory of the game that this example of his ""practice"" is somewhat remarkable."" Edward Freeborough Edward Freeborough (18 August 1830 – 14 September 1896) was the co-author, with Charles Ranken, of ""Chess"
"de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludo scacchorum"" ('Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess'), written by an Italian Dominican monk Jacobus de Cessolis . This book was one of the most popular of the Middle Ages. The work was translated into many other languages (the first printed edition was published at Utrecht in 1473) and was the basis for William Caxton's ""The Game and Playe of the Chesse"" (1474), one of the first books printed in English. Different chess pieces were used as metaphors for different classes of"
"Game of Chesse-Play"" by Francis Beale in London (Leon 1900). These games were not described in the now-familiar algebraic notation; rather, the movement of each piece was given in order like so:The Fooles Mate.Black Kings Bishops pawne one house.White Kings pawne one house.Black kings knights pawne two housesWhite Queen gives Mate at the contrary kings Rookes fourth house in which ""house"" refers to a square on the chessboard. In addition to the games (""Gambetts"") listed in his manuals, Greco gave an overview of the rules of chess (""The Lawes of Chesse"") and general advice to his readers. These range from"
"readers that it singlehandedly inspired other authors to create poems about chess. In the 20th century, artists created many works related to the game, sometimes taking their inspiration from the life of famous players (Vladimir Nabokov in ""The Defense"") or well-known games (Poul Anderson in ""Immortal Game"", John Brunner in ""The Squares of the City""). Some authors invented new chess variants in their works, such as stealth chess in Terry Pratchett's ""Discworld"" series or Tri-Dimensional chess in the ""Star Trek"" series. Palatine Chapel in the Norman Palace in Palermo you can admire the first painting of a chess game that"
"Maelzel's Chess Player ""Maelzel's Chess Player"" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely. The fake automaton was invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1769 and was brought to the U.S. in 1825 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel after von Kempelen's death. Although it is the most famous essay on the Turk, many of Poe's hypotheses were incorrect. He also may or may not have been aware of earlier articles written in the ""Baltimore Gazette"" where two youths were"
"directly inspired at least two other works. The first is Jan Kochanowski's poem ""Chess"" (c. 1565), which describes the game as a battle between two armies, while the second is William Jones'"" Caissa, or the game of chess"" (1772). The latter poem popularised the pseudo-ancient Greek dryad Caïssa to be the ""goddess of chess"". Since the 19th century, artists have been creating novels and – since the 20th century – films related to chess. Sometimes, they are inspired by famous games, like John Brunner's ""The Squares of the City"", structured after the famous match between Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin;"
"organized by the Brooklyn YMCA Chess and Checker Club, and in a correspondence chess tournament organized by ""Chess Review"". Bobby Fischer Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a known as ""The Game of the Century"". At age 14, he became the US Chess Champion, and at 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster (GM) up to that time and the youngest"
"untranslated from their original languages (medieval forms of French and German and Spanish etc.). Murray's companion work was ""A History of Board-Games other than Chess"" . He also wrote ""A Short History of Chess"", published in 1963. In the words of Daniel E. O'Sullivan, David Shenk writes in ""The Immortal Game"": A History of Chess The book A History of Chess was written by H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) and published in 1913. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of"
"work was the basis for William Caxton's ""The Game and Playe of the Chesse"" (1474), one of the first books printed in English. Jacobus de Cessolis In the second half of the 13th century, Jacobus de Cessolis, a Dominican friar in Cessole (Asti district, Piemonte, Northern Italy) used chess as the basis for a series of sermons on morality. They later became ""Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum"" ('Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess'). The popular work was translated into many other languages, and was first"
"The Chessmen of Mars The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in January, 1921, and the finished story was first published in ""Argosy All-Story Weekly"" as a six-part serial in the issues for February 18 and 25 and March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1922. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in November 1922. In this novel Burroughs focuses on a younger member of the family established by John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the"
"De ludo scachorum De ludo scachorum (), also known as Schifanoia (""Boredom Dodger""), is a Latin-language manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance. Created in the times when rules of the game (especially the way queen and bishop move) were evolving to the ones known today, the manuscript contains over a hundred chess problems, to be solved – depending on the problem – using either the old or the modern rules. The long-lost manuscript was rediscovered in 2006 and gathered public attention in 2008, following the plausible suggestion that"
"Side of Chess""; ""The Fireside Book of Chess"" (with Fred Reinfeld); ""The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played""; ""1000 Best Short Games of Chess""; ""Practical Chess Endings""; ""Combinations: The Heart of Chess""; and ""Capablanca's Best Chess Endings"", the latter highly regarded by Edward Winter: In 1945, he and Kenneth Harkness wrote ""An Invitation to Chess"", which became one of the most successful chess books ever written, with sales reaching six figures. Perhaps his most famous book is ""Logical Chess: Move by Move"", first released in 1957. This takes 33 classic games from 1889 to 1952, played by masters such"
"The Master of Game The Master of Game is a medieval book on hunting written by Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, between 1406 and 1413, of which 27 manuscripts survive. It is considered to be the oldest English-language book on hunting. It was reprinted in 1904 with a translation into modern English, an essay on medieval hunting, and a foreword by then-American President and noted hunter Theodore Roosevelt. Written between 1406 and 1413 by Edward, second Duke of York, ""The Master of Game"" is mostly a translation of an earlier work by Gaston Phoebus entitled ""Livre de chasse"","
"of a Chess poem in 1763, in his own poem ""Caïssa Or The Game at Chess"" written in English hexameters. In his poem, Caïssa initially repels the advances of the god of war, Mars. Spurned, Mars seeks the aid of the god Euphron (Jones's invention), brother of Venus, who creates the game of chess as a gift for Mars to win Caïssa's favor. It is an unproven assumption that Jones's name ""Caïssa"" (ka-is-sa) is an equivalent to Vida's name ""Scacchia"" (ska-ki-a). The English version of Philidor's Introduction to Chess contained Jones's poem. In 1851 the poem was translated into French"
"A Game at Chess A Game at Chess is a comic satirical play by Thomas Middleton, first staged in August 1624 by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre, notable for its political content. The drama seems to be about a chess match, and even contains a genuine chess opening: the Queen's Gambit Declined. Instead of personal names, the characters are known as the White Knight, the Black King, etc. However, audiences immediately recognized the play as an allegory for the stormy relationship between Spain (the black pieces) and Great Britain (the white pieces). King James I of England is"
"Guardian"". De ludo scachorum De ludo scachorum (), also known as Schifanoia (""Boredom Dodger""), is a Latin-language manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance. Created in the times when rules of the game (especially the way queen and bishop move) were evolving to the ones known today, the manuscript contains over a hundred chess problems, to be solved – depending on the problem – using either the old or the modern rules. The long-lost manuscript was rediscovered in 2006 and gathered public attention in 2008, following the plausible suggestion"
"The Game of Life The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a board game originally created in 1860 by Milton Bradley, as The Checkered Game of Life. ""The Game of Life"" was America's first popular parlour game. The game simulates a person's travels through his or her life, from college to retirement, with jobs, marriage, and possible children along the way. Two to four or six players can participate in one game. Variations of the game accommodate up to ten players. The modern version was originally published 100 years later, in 1960. It was created and co-designed"
"Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a chess puzzle book written by Bobby Fischer and co-authored by Stuart Margulies and Don Mosenfelder, originally published in 1966. It is believed to be the best-selling chess book of all time, with over one million copies sold. The book is intended for beginners and uses a programmed learning approach, permitting readers to go back and retry each question if they give a wrong answer. Unusually for a modern chess book, it requires no knowledge of chess notation, using only diagrams with arrows and verbal descriptions of chess moves such as"
"Chess or the King's Game Chess or the King's Game () is a book on chess. It was published in Leipzig in 1616 under the name of ""Gustavus Selenus"" (""Gustavus"" being an anagram of ""Augustus"" and ""Selenus"" referring to the Greek moon goddess Selene, linked to the Latin origin of the name ""Lüneburg""), the pen name of Duke Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579–1666). As a young prince, Augustus probably had learned of the game during his voyages to Italy and purchased numerous chess books from the Augsburg merchant and art collector Philipp Hainhofer. The first textbook on chess in the German"
"Arthur Bisguier Arthur Bernard Bisguier (October 8, 1929April 5, 2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer. Bisguier has won two U.S. Junior Championships (1948, 1949), three U.S. Open Chess Championship titles (1950, 1956, 1959), and the 1954 United States Chess Championship title. He played for the United States in five chess Olympiads. He also played in two Interzonal tournaments (1955, 1962). On March 18, 2005, the United States Chess Federation (USCF) proclaimed him ""Dean of American Chess"". Bisguier was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He was taught chess"
"Lasker's Manual of Chess Lasker's Manual of Chess () is a book on the game of chess written in 1925 by former World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker. The content of the book, as Lasker himself writes, is most influenced by the theories put forth by Steinitz, as well as Staunton's ""The Chess-Player's Handbook"". The book is divided into six sections: ""The Elements of Chess"", ""The Theory of the Openings"", ""The Combination"", ""Position Play"", ""The Aesthetic Effect in Chess"", and ""Examples and Models"". ""The Elements of Chess"" opens with a description of the chess board, the various rules of chess, and"
"The Rules of the Game (play) The Rules of the Game ( ) is a play by Luigi Pirandello. It was written and first performed during 1918 (and first published in 1919) at the time when his wife was suffering from mental illness, but before she was committed to a mental hospital. It was first performed at the Teatro Quirino in Rome, with Ruggero Ruggeri as Leone. The Italian title means ""The Game of Roles"", but the play is not usually published with that title in English. The characters in Pirandello's better-known work ""Six Characters in Search of an Author"""
"The Squares of the City The Squares of the City is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1965 (). It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is a sociological story of urban class warfare and political intrigue, taking place in the fictional South American capital city of Vados. It explores the idea of subliminal messages as political tools, and it is notable for having the structure of a famous 1892 chess game between Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin. The structure is not coincidental, and plays an important part"