Title: The adventure of chess
Description: The history of chess is traced in fact and fable from Oriental beginnings in the Indian four handed game of chaturanga, through its role in medieval romance, to its maturity today. Among the colorful figures is the arrogant Deschapelles, who claimed one need observe but three games to learn all he will eyer know of chess. Famous amateurs are discussed, including Napoleon, who was a bad player and a worse loser, Benjamin Franklin, who wrote an essay on the morals of chess, and the great pianist Rosenthal, who was loath to leave watching a tournament for a concert tour.
who was loath to leave watching a tournament for a concert tour.
The section on chess playing automata tells the amazing story of lion Kempelen's
Subjects: Chess, History, chaturanga, bet, ashtapada, Wei-chi, Sho-ngi, Celestial River, bishop, king, queen, knight, pawn, Chess, history
Places: India, Persia, Siam, Java, Russia, Arabia, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Sumatra, Annam, Korea, Japan, Greece
People: Napoleon Bonaparte, Sissa, Alexandre Louis Hnoré Lebreton Deschapelles, William Steinitz, Claude E. Shannon, Shah Anushirvan, H. A. Kennedy, Mischa Elman, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Moritz Rosenthal, Madame de Rémusat, Benjamin Franklin, Efim Bogolyubov, David Janovski, Aron Niemtsovich, Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine, José Raul Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker, Frank J. Marshall, Siegbert Tarrasch, Mikhail Ivanovich Tchigorin, Adolf Anderssen, Ruy Lopez, Damiano, Salvio, Stamma, Philidor, F. V. Morley, Paul Morphy
Time periods: 326 BCE - 1950