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Famous photographer Stanley Kubrick played chess at Washington Square Park, which served as a filming site for multiple chess movies filmed in the late 20th century. [3] In 1972, Bobby Fischer played in the World Chess Championship, representing the US, facing Boris Spassky of the USSR in Reykjavik. The match was broadcast worldwide, and the ...
Fox returned to America in 1901. He tied for 10–11th at Cambridge Springs 1904 (won by Frank James Marshall ), won Manhattan Chess Club Championship in 1905/06, tied for 2nd–3rd with Marshall, behind Eugene Delmar , at New York 1906, took 3rd at Trenton Falls 1906 ( Quadrangular , Emanuel Lasker won), and tied for 7–8th at New York 1916 ...
In 2009 the book Blindfold Chess, History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records and Important Games, by Eliot Hearst and John Knott was published. It was winner of the Fred Cramer Award for the Best Chess Book of 2009, sponsored by the U.S. Chess Federation, the Chess Journalists of America, and the U.S. Chess Trust.
Wolf chess (German: Wolf-Schach) is a chess variant invented by Dr. Arno von Wilpert in 1943. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is played on an 8×10 chessboard and employs several fairy pieces including wolf and fox – compound pieces popular in chess variants and known by different names.
The words fox and foxy have become slang in English-speaking societies for an individual (most often female) with sex appeal. The word vixen, which is normally the common name for a female fox, is also used to describe an attractive woman—although, in the case of humans, "vixen" tends to imply that the woman in question has a few nasty qualities.
As early as 1779 [5] Benjamin Franklin, in his article The morals of chess, advocated such a view, saying: . The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to ...
The history of mentalities, from the French term histoire des mentalités (lit. ' history of attitudes '), is an approach to cultural history which aims to describe and analyze the ways in which historical people thought about, interacted with, and classified the world around them, as opposed to the history of particular events, or economic trends.
Giorgio Vasari, visiting Cremona, was a guest in the house of Amilcare Anguissola and there admired paintings by Amilcare's daughters.About The Game of Chess he wrote, "I have seen this year in Cremona, in the house of her father a painting made with much diligence, the depiction of his three daughters, in the act of playing chess, and with them an old housemaid, done with such diligence and ...