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c. 720 – Chess spreads across the Islamic world from Persia. c. 840 – Earliest surviving chess problems by Caliph Billah of Baghdad. c. 900 – Entry on Chess in the Chinese work Huan Kwai Lu ('Book of Marvels'). 997 – Versus de scachis is the earliest known work mentioning chess in Christian Western Europe. [2]
Internet chess servers have existed since 1992 with the creation of the subscription service Internet Chess Club, [107] but today the majority of top-level players have moved to freemium websites like Chess.com (founded in 2007) and, to a lesser extent, free website Lichess (launched in 2010). These websites feature quick pairing systems and ...
Around 1200, the rules of shatranj started to be modified in Europe, culminating, several major changes later, in the emergence of modern chess practically as it is known today. [78] A major change was the modern piece movement rules, which began to appear in intellectual circles in Valencia, Spain, around 1475, [note 4] which established the ...
Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the ...
Pages in category "Chess by year" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1900 in chess;
Chess by year (177 C, 68 P) Chess historians (21 P) F. ... Pages in category "History of chess" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
The chess engines of 1960s and 1970s failed to compete successfully with top chess players. In 1968, International Master David Levy offered $3000 to any chess engine that could best him in the next ten years. In 1977 Levy faced the chess engine Kaissa, winning the match without losing a single game. [8] Deep Blue, on display at IBM.
Chess set from Rajasthan, India. Chaturanga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग, IAST: caturaṅga, pronounced [tɕɐtuˈɾɐŋɡɐ]) is an ancient Indian strategy board game.It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.