Timeline for Black beginning (specifically, the Immortal)
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| Mar 30, 2023 at 12:17 | answer | added | Evargalo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 29, 2023 at 20:46 | answer | added | Starship | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 28, 2023 at 16:44 | comment | added | Peter | I have doubts. In a great book of Nunn with the 100 greatest games of all time , nothing in this direction is mentioned. | |
| May 21, 2022 at 0:32 | comment | added | Pablo S. Ocal | A bit of digging shows that in the US it was in the 5th American Chess Congress of 1880 when the rule was first inscribed in the Code of Chess Laws (theconversation.com/…). | |
| Dec 22, 2021 at 16:27 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | @RosieF: Ah, this factually answers my specific question, the book I read probably was aware of the Kling/Horwitz book. Didn't know that Wiki link existed. You live, you learn. | |
| Dec 21, 2021 at 11:17 | comment | added | Rosie F | The sobriquet "Immortal" refers to a game Anderssen-Kieseritzky, played on 21 June 1851 in London, during a break of the first international tournament. [Wiki] Wikipedia also states that Anderssen played with the black pieces. | |
| Dec 21, 2021 at 8:36 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | @MichaelWest: The proof is my computer-like memory :-) I even so much leaned out of the window to assert it matter-of-factly when I wrote a mini-article on CPT in chess and physics. Ergo, someone wrote it somewhere in the gazillion chess books I read and had so much reputation I trusted it point blank. I estimate it was about 30 years ago, so politics (see the linked article) were a non-issue in this matter then. | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 17:31 | comment | added | Michael West | Very interesting rabbit hole to investigate. Thank you for this.What is proof that the immortal was played with Black first? I have seen reporting from that time that shows black moving first, is that sufficient? | |
| Dec 20, 2021 at 13:15 | history | edited | Rewan Demontay |
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| Dec 20, 2021 at 9:40 | history | asked | Hauke Reddmann | CC BY-SA 4.0 |