Chess History

Chess history, legendary players, and the stories behind the greatest games ever played.

[Chess History @ChessHeritage]

In 1851 a chess game was played that shocked the entire chess world.
It became known as The Immortal Game.
And 170 years later people still study it. ♟️

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

First reported by the @Telegraph , based on the @wjrelief archive. Free to read in the @JewishChron :
https://t.co/kT772iBJpn

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

The refugee charity files on Jacques Mieses list the help he received in London, down to a pair of orthopedic shoes. In 1950 the same man became the oldest of FIDE's first 27 grandmasters, and the only one under the British flag. #chesshistory #chess

[BritishChessNews @BritishChess]

Remembering Tony Miles (23-iv-1955 12-xi-2001) https://t.co/j3K0CJCxRE

@ecfchess @FIDE_chess @dgriffinches @ChessHastings
@ChessHeritage @chesstutor @richardpalliser @TelegraphChess

[Douglas Griffin @dgriffinchess]

Remembering Tony Miles, who passed away 25 years ago today at the age of only 46.
Seen here at Amsterdam in 1976, the year in which he became the first British-born GM. A chess hero to me & I am sure many others.
(📷: R. Bogaerts / ANEFO, via https://t.co/PlhPbKfF78.) #chess

[BritishChessNews @BritishChess]

It’s Only Me! : Remembering Tony Miles (23-iv-1955 12-xi-2001)

https://t.co/j3K0CJC026

@ecfchess @FIDE_chess @dgriffinchess @ChessHastings @ChessHeritage @chesstutor @richardpalliser @TelegraphChess

[BritishChessNews @BritishChess]

Remembering Fred Dewhirst Yates (16-i-1884 11-xi-1932)

https://t.co/pcBDVVMkSX

@ecfchess @dgriffinchess @chesstutor @richardpalliser @ChessHastings @ChessHeritage

[BritishChessNews @BritishChess]

BCIN is saddened to have learnt of the recent passing of FM Richard Eales. We will bring you more as we learn more.
@ecfchess @FIDE_chess @dgriffinchess @gmmds @TelegraphChess @chesstutor @GM_RayKeene @kochess_FST @ChessHastings @ChessHeritage @richardpalliser

[Johannes Geppert 📯 @jogep]

While researching Jacques Mieses, my great-grandmother's brother, I found a draw from Hastings 1948/49. Mieses was 83, Leonard Barden 19. Barden is 97 now and has written the Guardian chess column since 1955. This winter Hastings holds its 100th congress. #chesshistory #chess

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

A short story about the night before this fateful game that made me the world champion 35 years ago today. The evening of November 8, I received two phone calls from two former world champions, both named Mikhail. 1/3

[David Llada ♞ @davidllada]

Sæmi Pálsson, Bobby Fischer’s bodyguard during the 1972 Reykjavik match and one of his lifelong friends, passed away last weekend. This photograph of the two together dates from 1972 and was taken by Ólafur Magnússon.

[!TUUR (Arthur van de Oudeweetering) @TUUR1]

"The female Fischer" - Boris Ivkov on 12-year-old Maya Chiburdanidze who beat Vlasta Kalchbrenner (later -Vlasta Macek) 4-0 in the USSR-Yugoslavia match 1973

[!TUUR (Arthur van de Oudeweetering) @TUUR1]

Post mortem analysis, world championship's match 1937 (Euwe-Alekhine) #GukeshSindarov

[Douglas Griffin @dgriffinchess]

Remembering the great Mikhail Tal (1936-1992), who was born 90 years ago today.
Seen here in play at the Lucerne Olympiad, 8th November 1982.
(📷: D. Donskoi, Novosti Press.) #chess

[!TUUR (Arthur van de Oudeweetering) @TUUR1]

Congrats @maxeuwecentre ! Keep on going! (T de Jong-Euwe, Baarn, May 20th 1941) https://t.co/GIcDkeV2vX

[ChessBase @ChessBase]

Aaron Nimzowitsch: 140 years since the birth of a chess pioneer #Chess #Schach #ChessNews https://t.co/vZcYrYHu2h

[Johannes Geppert 📯 @jogep]

For years I've been piecing together the life of Jacques Mieses, my great-grandmother's brother. Today the Telegraph wrote about one part of it: the refugee file on him now held by @wjrelief. Thanks to WJR archive volunteers for the collaboration.

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

The refugee charity files on Jacques Mieses list the help he received in London, down to a pair of orthopaedic shoes. In 1950 the same man became the oldest of FIDE's first 27 grandmasters, and the only one under the British flag. #chesshistory #chess

[Johannes Geppert 📯 @jogep]

@WJRelief https://t.co/rZ43EiWDQt

[Olimpiu Di Luppi @olimpiuurcan]

Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short in September 1993.

[David Llada ♞ @davidllada]

Capablanca arrives in Havana after his victory against Frank Marshall, 1909.