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chess pieces deserve a high-quality chess board. SAC is
a British manufacturer of high-quality chess sets, and we
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The first
international chess tournament was the London Tourney of
1851, won by Adolf Anderssen of Germany, who then became
known unofficially as the world's best chess player, though
he did not receive any award or title. The first great American-born
chess player was Paul Morphy, of Irish ancestry, who lived
in the civil war era. He travelled to Europe in the 1850s,
beating all challengers, including Adolf Anderssen. However,
the English champion of the time (Staunton) refused to play,
so Morphy never became a world chess champion. The first
official championship chess tournament was played in 1866,
also in London, with sandclocks to restrict the length of
a game. This tournament was won by Steinitz, a Bohemian
(Czechoslovakian) Jew, who then became the world's first
official chess champion, holding this title until 1894.
Emanuel Lasker, an American born in Germany, also Jewish,
became champion by defeating Steinitz, remaining champion
until 1921, at which time Jose Capablanca, a Cuban, took
the title until 1927. Many people today consider Capablanca
as one of the top 3 chess players who ever lived, the others
being Morphy and Bobby Fischer. Fischer is the first native-born
U.S. citizen to have held the title of World Chess Champion.
Since 1927, most good chess players have been citizens of
the former USSR, and include: Tal, Alekhine, Petrosian,
Spassky, Smyslov, Anatoli Karpov, and Gary Kasparov. A dispute
over tournament procedures between Kasparov and the international
chess organization F.I.D.E. has resulted effectively in
TWO World co-champions: Karpov and Kasparov. Recently, however,
Vishy Anand won the F.I.D.E. championship and is seen by
most as the world's chess champ. |
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