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Ruy López de Segura gave rules of chess in his 1561 book Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez. [112] In the 16th and 17th centuries, there were local differences concerning rules such as castling, promotion, stalemate, and en passant .
Castling is a move in chess.It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the king passed over. [2] ...
The Nicaraguan Chess Championship is currently organized by Fenanic (Spanish: Federación Nacional de Ajedrez de Nicaragua), the national chess federation of Nicaragua.. After the first championship was held as a match in 1956, subsequent editions have been held as tournaments in multiple categories, [1] with the winner of the top category becoming the national cham
Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez (translation: "Book of the liberal invention and art of the game of chess") is one of the first books published about modern chess in Europe, after Pedro Damiano's 1512 book. It was written by Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura in 1561 and published in Alcalá de Henares.
Roberto Martín del Campo Cárdenas [14] Del Campo defeated Sisniega in a playoff match after they tied for first in the main tournament. [14] 1994: Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero [13] An elimination format was used. [1] 1995: Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero [13] An elimination format was used. [1] 1996: José Gonzalez Garcia [1] An elimination format ...
The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos. The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treatise of chess which synthesized the information from other Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, [1] commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile ...
The Napoleon Opening is named after the French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who had a deep love of chess but was said to be a mediocre player. [1] The name came into use after mid-nineteenth century publications reported [2] that he played this opening in an 1809 game [3] that he lost to The Turk, a fake chess automaton operated at the time by Johann Allgaier.
The Göttingen manuscript is the earliest known work devoted entirely to modern chess.It is a Latin text of 33 pages held at the University of Göttingen.A quarto parchment manuscript of 33 pages, ff. 1–15a are a discussion of twelve chess openings, f. 16 is blank, and ff. 17–31b are a selection of thirty chess problems, one on each page with a diagram and solution.