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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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Is there a "perfect" game?
I think there have probably been games that were perfect in that no one could substantively improve upon them. This will surely be less and less common as computers get stronger.
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Best by test - Fischer, waxing poetic on 1. e4
...making Kotov's face quite red. Reschevsky, on burning Kotov with a tactic which exposed a back-rank weakness. I wish I could find the game!
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Which was that Marshall's game with that spectacular Queen sac?
I believe it was Levitsky vs Marshall
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1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. exd5 exd5 6. Be2 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8. Bg5 O-O 9. dxc5 Be6 10. Nd4 Bxc5 11. Nxe6 fxe6 12. Bg4 Qd6 13. Bh3 Rae8 1 …
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What are openings which were once thought good, but are now shown to be inferior?
I'll play.
King's Gambit
The Grob (1. g4) a.k.a. The Spike
Bird's Defense to the Ruy Lopez (ECO C61), though this may not qualify as bad, as such. It just has little going for it.
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How is chess viewed in USSR vs Post-USSR?
Authoritarian governments will punish its representatives who do not live up to the standards they set.
Iraq - Saddam later appointed Uday head of the Iraqi Olympic committee and soccer federation, a …
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What are the dates each of the endgame tablebases were completed?
Endgame tables require enormous amounts of storage. According to this post, the 7-man tables are 140 terabytes. The 8-man tables will be many petabytes.
Each iteration of the tablebases grows expone …
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Chess games that advanced endgame theory
I'll have to look for the reference, it was in one of my chess books, and I gave my library away. But the game involved two GMs or GM-level players from back in the day, where one of them figured out …
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Who is/was the lowest ranked World Chess Champion?
According to this page, the weakest world champions would be Euwe and Steinitz. The list is old, but we've had nothing but powerhouses since 1978.
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What's the highest rating any computer has ever attained?
This page has a lot of good info. Kasparov is the highest at 2851. However, such comparisons are fraught with peril as ratings inflate, and they really can't be compared from era to era. I don't th …
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Why can't a piece (that isn't a pawn) capture en passant?
No. There is no analogue to en passant captures for pieces that are not pawns.
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What sense does promotion to queen make?
To answer your questions...
I never checked
It's good to be the king - Mel Brooks
In the original game (and perhaps even today), what Europeans call the queen, the Indians call the Advisor.
It's …
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What chess *scoring* alternatives exist?
I know of two.
The ELO rating. Players are awarded points based upon the result of the game versus the expectation. The rating is used to rank players in terms of skill. Higher rating denote higher …
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What should be defined as an en passant checkmate?
I don't think it is defined at all. But in your first case, the pawn is delivering the mate. So I think that would be the 'en passant mate'. The 2nd case is 'just' a discovered mate.
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Why is the king powerless and the queen powerful?
Practically speaking, if the king were any more powerful, checkmate or capture would be impossible.
The Queen originated as the Advisor. The Advisor was powerful, but not as powerful as the modern Q …
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Games that are famous because of their underlying story
Game two of the Fischer-Spassky world championship in 1972 comes to mind. Fischer forfeited it because of the cameras in the main hall. Due to Fischer's theatrics, Spassky agreed to play the 3rd game …