He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System ( My System ), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems ( The Practice of My System ), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade ( The Blockade ), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System.

It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.

The Chess Olympiad is a popular competition among teams from different nations.

Chess is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee, and international chess competition is sanctioned by the World Chess Federation.

Chess is played on a square board of eight rows ( called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8 ) and eight columns ( called files and denoted with letters a to h ) of squares.

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

FIDE's most visible activity is organizing the World Chess Championship ( overall and for women and juniors ), regional championships and the Chess Olympiad.

Correspondence chess ( chess played by post or email ) is regulated by the International Correspondence Chess Federation, an independent body that co-operates with FIDE where appropriate.

Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

" Chess is a form of intellectual activity, so this applies to chess.

In an interview regarding playing against computers she said, " Chess is 30 to 40 % psychology.

" When asked in 2002 if she still desired to win the world championship she said, " Chess is my profession and of course I hope to improve.

* Jadavpur University Chess Club: The Jadavpur University Chess Club is a nascent venture of chess enthusiasts at promoting the sport among the students of the university.

This new direction is reflected in Lucia, Minerva and Europa Anguissola Playing Chess ( 1555 ; Poznan, N.

Chess is a common strategy game played throughout the world.

The Rolling Stones emergence brought greater international recognition to the primitive urban blues typified by Chess Records ' artists such as Muddy Waters, writer of " Rollin ' Stone ", the song for which the band is named.

The most extensive treatment of the chess motif in Carroll's novel is provided in Glen Downey's The Truth About Pawn Promotion: The Development of the Chess Motif in Victorian Fiction.

It is an adversarial search algorithm used commonly for machine playing of two-player games ( Tic-tac-toe, Chess, Go, etc .).

Chess is a two-player board game sometimes called international chess.

She played first board on the U. S. Women's team in the 38th Chess Olympiad, when the U. S. team scored a bronze medal.

In October and November, she represented Hungary playing board 3 in the 34th Chess Olympiad.

In October and November 2002, Polgár alternated with Péter Lékó between first and second board for Hungary in the 35th Chess Olympiad.

In November 2008, Polgár played the number 2 board for the Hungarian open (" men's ") team in the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, finishing 3½ / 8.

In September and October 2010, Polgár played 3rd board for the Hungarian Men's team in the 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

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 ).

According to The Chess Variant Pages &# x200A ;: Perhaps the enduring popularity of Shogi can be attributed to its ' drop rule '; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own.

* Tile Chess, a multiplayer chess variant which can be played without a chess board.

Traditional Chess game is being revitalized by using the chess board of various sizes and chess pieces in Chez-Maze, an iOS based mathematical chess puzzle.

< imagemap > File: 1st millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity ; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once mighty Roman Empire ; Gunpowder is invented during the latter part of the millennium, in China ; Chess, a new board game, takes on popularity across the globe ; The Roman Empire falls, and then reappears ushering in the Early Middle Ages ; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the " ring lady ", killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ; Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, which takes most of western Europe.

* Luk Tsut K ' i (" Six Man Chess ") in Canton and Tapatan in the Philippines are equivalent to Three Men's Morris played on a board with diagonals.

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.

Similar Mathematical Chess Puzzles are incorporated in Chez-Maze, a board game developed for iPhone / iPad.

Timman represented the Netherlands in 13 Chess Olympiads from 1972 to 2004, playing on the top board on 11 occasions.

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess.

Due to his achievements in the chess world, mastery over the board and his relatively simple style of play he was nicknamed the " Human Chess Machine ".

* Chess is the Robbers ' rummy of board games.

Chess, has a game mode very similar but the board mode plays more like chess.

In Alice Chess, pieces move the same as they do in standard chess, but a piece transfers at the completion of its move to the opposite board.

A move in Alice Chess has two basic stipulations: the move must be legal on the board on which it is played, and the square transferred to on the opposite board must be vacant.

* Alice Chess 2: the black army starts out on the opposite board ( board B ).