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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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Detailed History of Touch Move Rule
What were the different versions of the touch-move rule over history? …
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How can someone find their Morphy number?
The Morphy number is a measure of how closely a chess player is connected to Paul Morphy (1837–1884) by way of playing chess games. It's analogous to the Erdős Number for mathematicians.
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Where does the term “cook” originate?
What is the origin of the term “cooked” for a chess problem with an additional, unintended solution?
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What’s the origin of “!” & “?”
Who first started to annotate chess moves with “!” for good & “?” for bad?!
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(1) 1859 "The Book of the First American Chess Congress." The annotated games have no exclamations or quest …
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Timeline of key historical changes to FIDE Laws & WFCC Codex?
A well-answered question here: FIDE Laws of Chess pre-2017 asks for locations of historical sets of FIDE Laws. I am asking for something which partially builds on that.
Is there a timeline of "key" hi …
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What is Indian Castling exactly?
Western castling doesn’t exist in historical Indian Chess (Chaturanga). Instead, in some versions, there is a cool move whereby each king can once in the game make a knight's move.
I read that it is c …
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