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An analog chess clock. A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run simultaneously. The clocks are used in games where the time is allocated between two parties. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each party takes and prevent ...
The Durkin Opening (also known as the Durkin Attack or the Sodium Attack) is a rarely played chess opening that consists of the following move: 1. Na3. The Durkin Opening is named for Robert T. Durkin (1923–2014) of New Jersey. The name "Sodium Attack" comes from the algebraic notation 1.Na3, as Na is the chemical symbol for the element sodium.
The North American Computer Chess Championship was a computer chess championship held from 1970 to 1994. It was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery and by Monty Newborn, Professor of Computer Science at McGill University. [1] It was one of the first computer chess tournaments.
Chess specific hardware also became prominent for chess engines in this time. In 1978 a chess engine named Belle won the North American Computer Chess Championship run by the Association for Computing Machinery, the engine's special hardware allowed it to analyze around thirty million positions in three minutes. Belle also held both opening and ...
In the eighties, chess play by email was still fairly novel. Latency with email was less significant than with traditional correspondence chess via paper letters. Often one could complete a dozen moves in a week. As network technology improved, public, widespread use of a centralised server for live play became a possibility.
Raymond Keene, one of several young English players chasing the country's first grandmaster title, wins the British Chess Championship in Blackpool. [7] The 1971/72 edition of the Niemeyer junior tournament, held every year since 1962/63 in Groningen, is formally adopted by FIDE as the 1st European Junior Chess Championship.