As had been done with Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, a highly successful concept album of Chess was released in 1984.

Head reappeared in the spotlight in 1984 as the American on the concept album for the musical Chess.

He did the voice of Molokov, a second to a Russian chess champion on the concept album of the musical Chess in 1984.

He was the first to play the role of " The Russian " on the 1984 concept album Chess, and performed the same role on stage in the 1986 world première West End production in London, for which he was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award in category Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Musical.

More popular, though, proved to be his 1972 humorous songs: Mishka Shifman ( satirizing the leaving-for-Israel routine ), Victim of Television ( ridiculing the concept of " political consciousness " as such ) and grotesquely funny The Honor of the Chess Crown about an ever-fearless " simple Soviet man " challenging the much feared American champion Bobby Fisher to a match, as well as the new " war " songs: We Spin the Earth and Black Pea-Coats.

She then originated the role of Florence for the 1984 concept album of Chess, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Ulvaeus and Andersson.

" I Know Him So Well " is a song from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

According to Marshall Chess, " It was never an attempt to make Muddy Waters a psychedelic artist ; it was a concept album like David Bowie being Ziggy Stardust.

* On the " Chess " concept album, in the song " Mountain Duet ", the Russian sings " Get to the point, begin the beguine ".

Because the piece set-up phase is part of the overall game strategy, the " auction " concept of Transcendental Chess is not necessary.

The concept of " evacuation " keeps the feeling of castling from Classical Chess because the king can suddenly relocate to another region of the board.

Yet, like Transcendental Chess, the " evacuation " concept avoids the complex and awkward piece placement rules of castling in Fischer Random Chess ( Chess960 ).

This project brings the concept of Real-Time Chess to touch interfaces and includes the ability to play Head-to-Head ( each player facing his own board ).

Recording on Chess Records, Fuqua initially shared lead vocals with Lester, but eventually asserted himself as the leader of the group.

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.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

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

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

The official rules of chess are maintained by the World Chess Federation.

German SABA also released a few compatible carts different from the original carts, translation in Videocart 1 Tic-Tac-Toe to German words, Videocart 3 released with different abbreviations ( German ), Videocart 18 changed graphics and German word list and the SABA 20 that's a Chess game released only by SABA.

* a Chess opening as created in reply by Black

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.

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 ).

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.

Judit started playing in tournaments at six years old and by age nine her rating with the Hungarian Chess Federation was 2080.

Before age 13 she had broken into the top 100 players in the world and the British Chess Magazine declared, " Judit Polgár's recent results make the performances of Fischer and Kasparov at a similar age pale by comparison.

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

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 ).

* 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

Freed had been given part of the writers ' credit by Chess in return for his promotional activities ; a common practice at the time.

* The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles ( ISBN 1-886846-05-7 ): edited by Sid Pickard

She has also continued to record infrequent secular material and in 1987, Houston and her daughter Whitney recorded a duet titled " I Know Him So Well ", a cover of the original by Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige from the Broadway show, Chess.

* Chess ( 14 May 1986-8 April 1989 ) by Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, starring Elaine Paige Tommy Koreberg and Murray Head

In 1985, Paige released " I Know Him So Well " with Barbara Dickson from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo.

In 1985, Paige released " I Know Him So Well ", a duet from Chess, singing with Barbara Dickson.

From 1986 to 1987, Paige appeared as Florence in the stage production of Chess, a role that earned her another Laurence Olivier Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Musical.

Although she had been disappointed when she hoped to perform on Broadway in Evita, Cats and Chess, Paige stated of her debut there, " It was just the most perfect time to go with that particular show ".

Paige also appeared in the original London West End stage production of Chess.

The spin-off fiction suggests that she was briefly married to pop star Johnny Chester ( also known as Johnny Chess ), the son of the First Doctor's companions Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.