Saturday, January 2, 2010

Chess as sport



     During 1850-1946 , People strarted to play chess as sport. In 1851,The first chess tournament was held in London. And won by Adolf Anderson . Energetic attacking style or strategically shallow style of Anderson was considered as the brilliant leading chess master and the highest possible summit of the chess art.
     In that time there are two younger players who reached very deep in nature of chess , Amercan Paul Morphy and Cuba Jose Raul Capablanca.
     Morphy beated his more competitors in his career between 1857-1863 by using brilliant attack and startegy style .He was special in attacking style.
     Capablanca was chess prodigy who like to play in simple positions and endgame style.He against his competitors and undefeated from 1916 to 1924.
     During the world war there was revolutionized in chess theory by hypermodernists . This theory emphasis controlling center  of board by distant pieces such as bishop , knight, quen rather than pawn and try to appeal compettitor to occupy the center by his pawn that was object of attack
    At the end of 19th century , a lot of master tournament were held . First formally chess grandmaster was identified  by Tsar Nicholas ll of Russia .The World Chess Federation (FIDE) was founded in 1924,Followed by Women's World Chess Championship  in 1927 and first woman chessmaster of Women's World Chess Championship was Czech-English Vera Menchik.

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