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1915 In Chess
Events in chess in 1915: Chess events in brief * Marshall Chess Divan started by Frank Marshall (chess player), Frank Marshall. Forerunner to Marshall Chess Club. Tournaments * Triberg chess tournament won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Peter Romanovsky, 1914/15 * New York (Metropolitan Chess League), won by Edward Lasker, January * Vienna (Quadrangular), won by Józef Dominik, March * 25th London City championship (London, England), won by Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, Sir George Thomas, March * New York won by José Raúl Capablanca followed by Frank Marshall (chess player), Frank Marshall, Oscar Chajes and Abraham Kupchik, Jacob Bernstein and Ed Lasker, 19 April – 7 May * 16th U.S. Open Chess Championship (Excelsior, Minnesota), won by Jackson Showalter ahead of Norman T. Whitaker, finished 21 August * Utica won by Charles Jaffe * Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Ilya Rabinovich and Alexander Flamberg * Triberg won by Efim Bogoljubow ahead of Alexey ... [...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] |
