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The 20th century saw great leaps forward in chess theory and the establishment of the World Chess Federation. In 1997, an IBM supercomputer beat Garry Kasparov , the then world chess champion, in the famous Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov match, ushering the game into an era of computer domination .
10th century – As-Suli writes Kitab Ash-Shatranj, the earliest known work to take a scientific approach to chess strategy. late 10th century – Dark and light squares are introduced on a chessboard. 1008 – Mention of chess in the will of Count Uregel, another early reference.* 1173 – Earliest recorded use of a form of Algebraic Chess ...
As the 20th century entered its final third, it was already apparent that the Soviet Union (USSR) had raised chess standards to a level to which other nations could only aspire. The USSR had produced an uninterrupted line of world champions stretching from 1948 to 1970.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
In the twentieth century, chess histories have appeared and updated Murray's work, but none have come close to Murray's comprehensiveness. David Shenk writes in The Immortal Game: [3] A History of Chess, by Harold James Ruthven Murray, was published by Oxford University Press in 1913. Murray covered the first 1,400 years of the game's history ...
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Pages in category "20th-century chess players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 393 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the ...