Chess

:For other meanings, see Chess (disambiguation).

See also

• Demonstration (sample) chess game explains chess through a simple demonstration
• Chess terminology
• Chess problems and puzzles
• Ways to play chess: Correspondence chess, Blitz chess, Bullet chess, Chess handicap, Simultaneous chess, Blindfold chess, Human chess
• Internet servers to play chess: Internet Chess Club, FICS, InstantChess.com, ChessWorld.net
• ELO rating system
• Administrative bodies:
• FIDE
• British Chess Federation
• United States Chess Federation
• Chess symbols in Unicode
• Chess and mathematics
• Chess as mental training
• Chess-related deaths
• List of chess players
• List of chess topics
• List of national chess championships

Famous chess games

• Bowdler - Conway, London, 1788, the first example of the famous double rook sacrifice;
• The immortal game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky (1851);
• The evergreen game between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne (1852);
• The opera game between Paul Morphy and two allies, the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard (1858);
• Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889, the first example of the famous double bishop sacrifice;
• The Game of the Century between Bobby Fischer and Donald Byrne (1956);
• The Match of the Century between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, 1972;
• Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1, the first game in which a chess-playing computer defeated a reigning world champion using normal time controls (1996);
• Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1997, Game 6, the last game of the 1997 rematch, which Deep Blue won, making it the first computer to defeat a world champion in a match over several games;
• Kasparov versus The World, in which the reigning world champion played, via the Internet, against the entire rest of the world in consultation (1999);
• Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee, 1999, rook sacrifice with a 15+ moves forced sacrificial combination. One of the most commented chess games ever, with extensive press coverage.

History of chess

• Timeline of chess
• World Chess Championship
• Greatest chess player of all time
• Origins of chess
• Chess in early literature
• Early arabic chess literature
• Cox-Forbes theory
• Chess in Europe
• Chess Olympiad
• World records in chess

World chess champions

:Main article: World Chess Championship

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Unofficial but widely recognized as Champions (pre-championship era):

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• Philidor
• Howard Staunton
• Adolf Anderssen
• Paul Morphy

Official Champions:

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• Wilhelm Steinitz
• Emanuel Lasker
• José Raúl Capablanca
• Alexander Alekhine
• Max Euwe
• Mikhail Botvinnik
• Vassily Smyslov
• Mikhail Tal
• Tigran Petrosian
• Boris Spassky
• Robert Fischer
• Anatoly Karpov
• Garry Kasparov

Unofficial but widely accepted as current World Champion:

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• Vladimir Kramnik

FIDE World Champions after Garry Kasparov:

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• Alexander Khalifman
• Vishwanathan Anand
• Ruslan Ponomariov
• Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Chess literature

• Chess columns in newspapers
• Chess libraries
• Collections of Chess Games
• Opening Manuals

Chess in the arts and literature

• Through the Looking-Glass
• Searching for Bobby Fischer
• The Luzhin Defence
• The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig
• Chess and music
• Checkmate, a ballet by the composer Arthur Bliss
• The Lewis chessmen also inspired Noggin the Nog.
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Knight Moves
• The Seventh Seal
• Chess, a musical by Tim Rice and ABBA
• The Eight by Katherine Neville (1998)
• The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• The Tower Struck By Lightning by Fernando Arrabal
• Fresh, a 1994 film