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 !.

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.

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.

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.

Krush currently plays for the New York Knights in the U. S. Chess League, and both she and her ex-husband Canadian Grandmaster Pascal Charbonneau have played in the United Kingdom league for Guildford-ADC.

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.

During his stay he played many games of Fischer Random Chess and helped the sisters analyse their games.

In April 1997, she played in the Dos Hermanas Chess tournament, a single-round robin category XIX event of 10 of the world's best players.

In May – June 2007 she played in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.

In July 2007, Polgár played in the Biel Chess Festival which was won by 16-year-old Magnus Carlsen.

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 April 2010, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match against Czech GM David Navara which was part of the ČEZ Chess Trophy 2010 festival of the Prague Chess Society.

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

There were also changes in the record industry, with the rise of independent labels like Atlantic, Sun and Chess servicing niche audiences and a similar rise of radio stations that played their music.

* Knightmare Chess, a chess variant played with cards.

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

* 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.

For purposes of recording the moves that are played in the game, it is sufficient to employ an algebraic form of notation, as in Chess, and write the names of the pieces and the squares they are to be placed in.

Chess is a game played by two people on a chessboard, with sixteen pieces ( of six different types ) for each player.

In 1995 " Deep Blue prototype " ( actually Deep Thought II, renamed for PR reasons ) played in the 8th World Computer Chess Championship.

Chess is one of the most well-known and frequently played strategy games.

The chess event played here was adopted by the ICCA as the 10th World Computer Chess Championship.

Members can watch live broadcasts of tournaments with grandmaster commentary on Chess. FM, watch games involving titled players being played on ICC and challenge grandmasters in simultaneous exhibitions.

Shuffle Chess had been played for quite some time before this, as early as 1842.

Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature — with historical notes on other table-games.

* B52 ( chess opening ), the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code for a chess opening based on the Sicilian Defence

* Basic Chess Endings, a chess book on chess endgames by Reuben Fine

Chess included Diddley's recording of " Sixteen Tons " on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960.

The Diddley-penned, " Wyatt Earp " was a single released on Okeh Records, since the Chess brothers did not want to release the record.

Along with information on official chess tournaments, the rules are described in the FIDE Handbook, Laws of Chess section.

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs ( FIDE, or World Chess Federation ) was formed in Paris in 1924, but at that time did not formulate criteria on who should earn the title.

In the 2008 U. S. Women's Chess Championship, she lost by one second on time controls in a playoff with IM and WGM Anna Zatonskih.

In Chess for Dummies, James Eade commented on the game, writing, " If even world champions break the rules, what hope do the rest of us have?

Polgár authored a children's book on chess, Chess Playground.

* Focus on Chess variants from Alfonso's codex

** Chess Module-The Odyssey2 didn't have enough memory and computing power for a decent implementation of chess on its own, so the C7010 chess module contained a secondary CPU with its own extra memory to run the chess program.

Many of these hit records were issued on new independent record labels, such as Savoy ( founded 1942 ), King ( founded 1943 ), Imperial ( founded 1945 ), Specialty ( founded 1946 ), Chess ( founded 1947 ), and Atlantic ( founded 1948 ).

At Chess Records in the spring of 1955, Bo Diddley's debut record " Bo Diddley "/" I'm A Man " climbed to # 2 on the R & B charts and popularized Bo Diddley's own original rhythm and blues clave-based vamp that would become a mainstay in rock and roll.

Egyptian History of chess | Chess Players ( 1865 ), oil on wood, 39. 8 x 55. 8 cm.

< 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.

* Colossus Chess, A game from the 1980s on the Commodore 64 / Amiga

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

The pawns, on the other hand, move just like the Rook moves in Chess, unable to move diagonally.

As an assessment of the king's capability as an offensive piece in the endgame, it is often considered to be slightly stronger than a bishop or knight – Emanuel Lasker gave it the value of a knight plus a pawn ( i. e. four points on the scale of Chess piece relative value ).