Chess
Chess has more than a thousand years of history.
There are many legends about its origin and different countries claim its invention. Today,
chess is believed to be an evolution of the board game shatranj, which in turn comes from
chaturanga, invented in India in the 6th century. Most experts agree that the oldest ancestor
of chess is Chaturanga, played in India, although its exact origin is unknown.
Chess has been gaining more and more popularity in the e-sports community lately.
Moreover, the international chess community is constantly working to have traditional chess
officially recognized as an Olympic discipline by the Olympic Committee.
their participation in the cold war.
Chess has always been a simulation of political and military confrontation.
Picture diplomats or generals at a chessboard. Chess provided a mega-
metaphor for this psychological warfare, one that gained additional meaning
from the game's important role in Soviet communist society. The Russians
might have lagged behind in military technology or economic competition, but
on the chessboard they reigned supreme.
Chess was used as a way to promote intellect and strategy.
world chess champions
-Emanuel Lasker.- Emanuel Lasker was born on December 24, 1868 in
Berlinchen (now Barlinek in Poland), a small German town near the Russian
border. Coming from a humble Jewish family, By the age of twelve he had
already shown a talent for mathematics and was sent to a school in Berlin
under the care of his older brother Berthold , who taught him to play chess and
took him to cafes where he soon began to earn money by betting on his games.
After completing compulsory secondary school, he entered the Faculty of
Mathematics at the University of Berlin in 1888, while continuing to progress in
chess.
Once the title was confirmed, Lasker abandoned the competition to continue
his studies in philosophy and mathematics, returning triumphantly in 1899,
when he won the London tournament in a landslide In 1899 Janowski was the
first to propose a challenge to Lasker for the championship title, which was
never contested due to Lasker's demands regarding both the format of the
competition and the prize money. Lasker alegaba que estas, principalmente las
económicas.
It was Marshall who eventually challenged Lasker for the title in 1907, thanks
to American amateurs who managed to raise the necessary money. Although
Marshall was a brilliant player and defeated Janowski in 1905, En 1908 puso
finalmente el título en juego contra el rival que era unánimemente considerado
el aspirante más peligroso, Siegbert Tarrasch. El encuentro por el campeonato,
que se llevaría el primero en ganar ocho partidas,
- José Raúl Capablanca.- Capablanca was born in the Castillo del Príncipe, a
military installation in Havana, on November 19, 1888. José Raúl was the
second son of José María Capablanca Fernández, According to his own account,
Capablanca learned to play chess at the age of four, watching his father play
with friends.
In 1920, Lasker realised that Capablanca was getting too strong and decided to
relinquish the title in favour of Capablanca, adding: "You have won the title not
by the formality of a challenge, but by your brilliant mastery." The Cuban
preferred to win it in a game, but Lasker insisted that he was now the
challenger. In 1921 they played the championship in Havana where Capablanca
beat the German without losing a single game: +4 -0 =10. It would not be until
eight decades later when this would be repeated, when in 2000 Vladimir
Kramnik beat Garry Kasparov +2 -0 =13. El nuevo campeón del mundo,
Capablanca, dominó en Londres en 1922.
-Rover Fischer.- Robert (Bobby) James Fischer was born at Michael Reese
Hospital in Chicago, Illinois on March 9, 1943.
In 1964 he won the championship with a score of 11-0, the only perfect score
in the history of that tournament. To qualify for the 1972 World Chess
Championship
-Garri Kasparov.- Garry Kimovich Veinshtein8 was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to
an Armenian mother, Clara Shagenevna Kasparyan, and a Russian Jewish father,
Kim Moiseyevich Veinshtein.
His chess beginnings were watching his father, who taught him the basics; but
he began to study chess seriously after his parents9 proposed a chess problem
to him. His father died when he was seven years old. He adopted his mother's
Armenian surname, Kasparian, modifying it to a more Russified version,
Kasparov.
- Magnus Carlsen.- is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster, crowned as the sixteenth
World Chess Champion. He was proclaimed world champion on 28 November
2013, at the age of 22 years, 11 months and 27 days,1 making him the second
youngest champion in history after Garry Kasparov. He won the title by beating
champion Viswanathan Anand by 6½-3½ points (three wins and seven draws)
in the match organised by FIDE in the Indian city of Chennai.
Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of thirteen. In 2010, he reached the
top position in the International Chess Federation world rankings. He is the
second youngest player to reach 2800 Elo points, a figure surpassed by Alireza
Firouzja in 2021.
The first machine to defeat a human
May 11, 1997 marked a milestone in the history of chess – and artificial
intelligence. It was the day that Garry Kasparov, one of the greatest chess
players of all time, lost to Deep Blue, It was a game that not only stood out for
the machine's mastery in a game as complex as chess, but also generated a
debate about the role of artificial intelligence and its relationship with humans.
The best chess games according to me
Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov 1-0
Anderssen-Kieseritzky (1851)
Kaspárov-Topalov (1999)
