Chess Basics

The 1969 World Chess Championship: A Rematch That Changed an Era A Moment of Truth for Spassky Spring 1969. Moscow....

Boris Spassky: A Chess Player Ahead of His Time A Man Between Eras In the history of chess, there are...

World Chess Championship 1957 In 1957, a real drama unfolded. After the draw of 1954, everyone was waiting for a...

World Chess Championship 1954: When Equality Decided Everything Moscow Holds Its Breath In the spring of 1954, Moscow became the...

Fischer Chess: Returning Chess to Pure Thinking When Genius Rose Against the System Bobby Fischer at some point simply became...

1934 World Chess Championship: Another Chance Missed by Bogolyubov The Battle for the Chess Crown 1934 was a memorable year...

1927 World Chess Championship: Battle of the Giants The Beginning: Everyone Was Waiting for the Capablanca-Alekhine Match For all chess...

The 1921 World Chess Championship: Changing of the Guard It was the year 1921. The chess world was in tension:...

Akiba Rubinstein: the genius who never became world champion The greatest without a crown In the history of chess there...

The Chess Battle of 1886: How the Chess Crown Was Born The Beginning of the Story The year 1886 is...