Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940, issue of The New Yorker and Marshall's autobiography My 50 Years of Chess ( 1942 ).

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Music industry historian John Broven has written that " Leonard Chess was the dynamo behind Chess Records, the label that, along with Atlantic and Sun, has come to epitomize the independent record business.

For decades chess writers have reported that Tsar Nicholas II of Russia conferred the title of " Grandmaster of Chess " upon each of the five finalists at St Petersburg 1914 ( Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch and Marshall ), but chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources supporting this story were published in 1940 and 1942.

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Chess historian Edward Winter has questioned this, stating that the earliest known sources that support this story are Marshall's autobiography and an article by Robert Lewis Taylor in the June 15, 1940 issue of The New Yorker.

Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa ( known in English as " Baron von der Lasa ", 17 October 1818, Berlin – 27 July 1899, Storchnest near Lissa, Greater Poland, then German Empire ) was an important German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School ( the Berlin Pleiades ).

Chess historian Edward Winter in a 1992 review was very critical of Divinsky's The Batsford Chess Encyclopedia, calling it " A Catastrophic Encyclopedia ".

Chess historian Edward Winter has criticized that usage, pointing out that 1. f4 f5 2. e4 was analyzed by F. A.

Chess historian Edward Winter has criticized many of Schiller earlier books for large numbers of spelling, factual and typographical errors, and even claimed plagiarism.

Chess historian Edward Winter criticized Evans's work, asserting that it was sloppy, dishonest, and riddled with factual inaccuracies, International Master John L. Watson, has noted that Evans has " huge bias ", " long histories of ignoring and distorting evidence ", and " absurd arguments ".

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Chess historian Edward Winter writes, " S. Lipschütz ( 1863-1905 ) was a US champion, but chess historians are still unable to establish with certainty his forename.

In the 1950s, Chess Records ' commercial success grew with artists such as Little Walter, The Moonglows, The Flamingos, and Chuck Berry, and in the ' 60s with Etta James, Fontella Bass, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Laura Lee, and Tommy Tucker, as well as with the subsidiary labels Checker, Argo, and Cadet.

Indiana State University Chess Captain, Taylor Pinnick, has led the Sycamores to 9 consecutive wins in the Missouri Valley Conference.

She also worked as a backing singer at Chess Records on recordings by Etta James, Fontella Bass, Koko Taylor and others produced by Higgins.

His best results on foreign soil included two wins at the Canadian Open Chess Championship, 1956 in Montreal, and 1966 in Kingston, Ontario.

On 1 October, the Association of Chess Professionals released a statement denouncing Danailov for publicly accusing his opponent without evidence, and calling for him to be investigated by the FIDE Ethics Committee.

That is why all the games were modified by playing them on an n × n board instead ; in some cases, such as for Chess, these extensions are somewhat artificial and subjective.

Led by Chris Petroff, they formed the Free Internet Chess Server ( FICS ), which to this day continues to allow everyone to access all features for free.

Randomizing the main pieces had long been known as Shuffle Chess, but Chess960 introduced new rules preserving full castling options in all starting positions, resulting in 960 unique positions.

In fact, Chess 4. 0 set the paradigm that was and still is followed essentially by all modern Chess programs today.

Chess puzzles can also be regular positions from a game ( with normal rules ), usually meant as training positions, tactical or positional, from all phases of the game ( openings, middlegame of endings ).

The World Chess Federation FIDE sets a single time control for all major FIDE events: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

According to the December 1857 issue of Chess Monthly, " his genial disposition, his unaffected modesty and gentlemanly courtesy have endeared him to all his acquaintances.

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other.

The goal in both games is to lose all of your pieces, although in Losers Chess, you can also win by getting checkmated.

This support has now been extended to all of the World's major Chess variants: xiangqi ( Chinese Chess ), shogi ( Japanese Chess ), makruk ( Thai Chess ) and many Western variants on boards of deviating sizes ( e. g. Capablanca Chess ).

The English Chess Federation, which in 2005 replaced the long established British Chess Federation, is responsible for the organisation of chess in England, and also organises the annual British Chess Championship on behalf of all the UK federations.

He was involved in organising the 1986, 1993 and 2000 World Chess Championships ; and the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Mind Sports Olympiads ; all held in London.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games, Volume 1 ( 1485-1866 ) includes all recorded games played up to 1800.

Premiering two seasons later in the West End, the show become one of the most successful musicals of all time and was also the first musical to employ a huge engineering staff to supervise its many technical elements, a paradigm which would be adopted for Chess in numerous capacities during its development.

Chess was, even in 1990, trying to keep itself modern ; the ending of the Cold War was noted in all new versions of the show.

All games are recorded by a bot and made publicly available for viewing and download at the FICS Games Database ( Chess and all variant games except bughouse ) and FICS Bughouse Database ( bughouse games ).

" The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement ; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions ; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it.

A complete set of tournament rules for Tri-Dimensional Chess written by Jens Meder is available on his website.

There are some software programs for playing Tri-D Chess, most notably Parmen, a Windows application written by Doug Keenan and available free on his website.

A wider range of activities depending on the demand may also be available and include, Ballet / Dance, Ceramics, Chess, Choir, Climbing, Community Service, Current Affairs, Dancing, Debating / Public Speaking, Design / Technology, Drama / Theatre Studies, Life Saving, First Aid, Outdoor Pursuits, Photography, Practical Engineering, Textiles, and Young Enterprise.

The current version, version 14, was released in August 2012, along with its own interface ( Chess Explorer ) available on Mac and Windows.

Among the earliest evidence of the game are fragments of a pottery board and several rock cuts found in Aksumite Ethiopia in Matara ( now in Eritrea ) and Yeha ( in Ethiopia ), which are dated by archaeologists to between the 6th and 7th century AD ; the game may have been mentioned by Giyorgis of Segla in his 14th century Ge ' ez text " Mysteries of Heaven and Earth ," where he refers to a game called qarqis, a term used in Ge ' ez to refer to both Gebet ' a ( Mancala ) and Sant ' araz ( modern sent ' erazh, Ethiopian Chess ).