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1986 In Chess
Events in chess in 1986. Events * Nigel Short won the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Tournament 1986, held in January. * ''28 July – 8 October''. World champion Garry Kasparov defended his title 12½ - 11½ against challenger Anatoly Karpov in the World Chess Championship 1986, 1986 World Championship in London and Leningrad. * Women's world champion Maia Chiburdanidze defended her title for the fourth time in the Women's World Chess Championship 1986, held in Sofia. Births * Gabriel Flom - 27 January * Valeriy Aveskulov - 31 January * Luca Shytaj - 3 February * Andrei Murariu - 17 February * Levan Pantsulaia - 26 February * Alexandre Danin - 14 March * Anuar Ismagambetov - 21 March * Saptarshi Roy - 21 March * Boris Grachev - 27 March * Alexey Kim - 5 April * Tatiana Kosintseva - 11 April * Pavel Anisimov - 19 April * Levon Babujian - 8 May * Pentala Harikrishna - 10 May * Vugar Gashimov - 24 July Deaths * Gedeon Barcza - 21 February * Borislav Milić - 28 May * Georgy Agzam ... [...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] |
