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Use this tag for questions relating to the history of chess and chess organizations, whose origins trace to the ancient Indian game of Chaturanga.
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What previous results match/compare to Alireza Firouzja's 3000+ performance in the European ...
An unofficial list of the highest Tournament Performance Ratings (TPRs) on record in standard FIDE classical tournaments since 1970 is here: https://deletionpedia.org/en/List_of_highest_chess_Tourname …
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What are the origins of Hand & Brain chess?
I was recently leafing through Pritchard's Encyclopedia of Chess Variants when I noticed that the variant Hand and Brain which has recently become popular, in which one player states the piece to the …
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What is the history behind the famous author H. G. Wells writing against the game of chess?
One cannot do better than simply refer you to the work of chess historian Bill Wall on this subject: https://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/articles/hgwells.htm
Wells did not hate chess. He revered it for …
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How do I find data to determine records like the youngest person to obtain a certain title?
A rather half-fledged answer but here goes:
Check out https://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml.
Download the data files for each month from the archive and parse them into a single database or datafram …
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Who did Nigel Short really play on the ICC in 2001 when he thought he was playing Fischer?
Well, as of 2021 a much more concrete answer can be provided: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/mv0vz5/solving_the_fischer_chess_games_in_2001_gm_nigel/
In short (pun not intended) …
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