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1903 In Chess
Events in chess in 1903: News * Siegbert Tarrasch (Germany) wins the Monte Carlo chess tournament, Monte Carlo tournament, ahead of Géza Maróczy (Hungary), Harry Pillsbury (United States), Carl Schlechter (Austria), and Richard Teichmann (Germany). * Mikhail Chigorin wins the Kiev 1903 chess tournament, 3rd All-Russian Championship in Kiev, ahead of Ossip Bernstein. * Chigorin (Russia) also wins the Vienna tournament, ahead of Frank Marshall (chess player), Frank Marshall (United States), Georg Marco (Romania), and Pillsbury. All games in this gambit tournament begin with the King's Gambit. * The American team wins the Anglo-American cable chess matches, Anglo-American cable match by the score 5½–4½. Pillsbury and Marshall are in Europe to play at the Monte Carlo chess tournament, Monte Carlo tournament, so they travel to London to play their games in person. Births * Tihomil Drezga (1903–1981) born in Šibenik, Croatia * Henryk Friedman (1903–1942), Polish master * Gis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
