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57 relations: Alexander Fritz, American Chess Congress, Anglo-American cable chess matches, Arnold van Foreest, Arved Heinrichsen, Berlin 1897 chess tournament, British Chess Championship, Burn (disambiguation), Carlsbad 1911 chess tournament, Chigorin Memorial, Development of the World Chess Championship, DSB Congress, Edward Freeborough, Emanuel Lasker, Emil Schallopp, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, Francis Joseph Lee, French Defence, George Alcock MacDonnell, George H. D. Gossip, George Henry Mackenzie, German Chess Championship, Grandmaster (chess), Hastings 1895 chess tournament, Henry Ernest Atkins, Hermann von Gottschall, Isidor Gunsberg, Jean Taubenhaus, Johann Berger, John Wisker, José Raúl Capablanca, Joseph Henry Blackburne, King's Gambit, Rice Gambit, Lasker versus Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889, List of chess players, List of mini chess tournaments, London 1899 chess tournament, Louis van Vliet, Mikhail Chigorin, Morphy number, Novotny (chess), Nuremberg 1896 chess tournament, Ostend 1907 chess tournament, Paris 1900 chess tournament, Queen's Gambit Declined, Rubinstein Trap, San Sebastián chess tournament, Siegbert Tarrasch, St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, Stalemate, Threefold repetition, ..., Vienna 1898 chess tournament, Wilhelm Cohn, Wilhelm Steinitz, William H. K. Pollock, William Wayte, World Chess Championship, 1901 in chess. Expand index (7 more) »
Alexander Fritz
Alexander Fritz (15 January 1857, Kirchlotheim – 22 April 1932, Alsfeld) was a German chess master.
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American Chess Congress
The American Chess Congress was a series of chess tournaments held in the United States, a predecessor to the current U.S. Chess Championship.
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Anglo-American cable chess matches
The Anglo-American cable chess matches were a series of yearly chess matches between teams from the United States and Great Britain conducted over transatlantic cable from 1896 to 1911, except for the three-year gap of 1904 to 1906 when no matches were held.
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Arnold van Foreest
Jhr. Arnold Engelinus van Foreest (29 June 1863 – 24 June 1954) was a Dutch chess master.
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Arved Heinrichsen
Arved Heinrichsen (Arvydas Hainričsenas, 23 November 1879, in Vilnius – 23 August 1900, in Vilnius), was a Lithuanian chess master.
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Berlin 1897 chess tournament
The Internationales Turnier Berlin 1897 celebrated seventy years of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft.
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British Chess Championship
The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation.
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Burn (disambiguation)
A burn is an injury to flesh caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, light, radiation, or friction.
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Carlsbad 1911 chess tournament
The Carlsbad 1911 chess tournament was one of four well-known international chess tournaments held in the spa city of Carlsbad (Bohemia, then Austria-Hungary Empire).
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Chigorin Memorial
The Chigorin Memorial is a chess tournament played in honour of Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908), founder of the Soviet Chess School and one of the leading players of his day.
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Development of the World Chess Championship
The concept of a world chess champion started to emerge in the first half of the 19th century, and the phrase "world champion" appeared in 1845.
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DSB Congress
The Deutscher Schachbund (DSB) was founded in Leipzig on 18 July, 1877.
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Edward Freeborough
Edward Freeborough (18 August 1830 – 14 September 1896) was the co-author, with Charles Ranken, of Chess Openings Ancient and Modern (1889), one of the first important opening treatises in the English language and a precursor of Modern Chess Openings.
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Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921).
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Emil Schallopp
Emil Schallopp (1 August 1843, Friesack, Germany – 9 April 1919, Berlin) was a German chess player and author.
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Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Eugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky (Russian: Евгений Александрович Зноско-Боровский; Yevgeny Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky) (16 August 1884 – 31 December 1954) was a Russian chess master, music and drama critic, teacher and author.
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Francis Joseph Lee
Francis Joseph Lee (c. 1857, London – 12 September 1909, London) was an English chess master.
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French Defence
The French Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: This is most commonly followed by 2.d4 d5, with Black intending...c5 at a later stage, attacking White's and gaining on the.
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George Alcock MacDonnell
George Alcock MacDonnell (16 August 1830 in Dublin – 3 June 1899 in London) was an Anglican clergyman as well as a chess master and writer.
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George H. D. Gossip
George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip (December 6, 1841 – May 11, 1907) was a minor American-English chess master and writer.
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George Henry Mackenzie
George Henry Mackenzie (24 March 1837, North Kessock, Scotland – 14 April 1891, New York City) was a Scottish-American chess master.
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German Chess Championship
The German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion.
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Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
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Hastings 1895 chess tournament
The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted in Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2, 1895.
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Henry Ernest Atkins
Henry Ernest Atkins (20 August 1872 – 31 January 1955) was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven attempts.
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Hermann von Gottschall
Hermann von Gottschall (16 October 1862, Posen – 7 March 1933, Görlitz) was a German chess master, son of the poet Rudolf Gottschall (since 1877: von Gottschall) who was also a noted chess player.
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Isidor Gunsberg
Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (1 November 1854 – 2 May 1930) was a Hungarian chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz.
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Jean Taubenhaus
Jean (Jan) Taubenhaus (born 14 December 1850, Warsaw – died 14 September 1919, Paris) was a Polish–born French chess master.
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Johann Berger
Johann Nepomuk Berger (11 April 1845, Graz – 17 October 1933) was an Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor.
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John Wisker
John Wisker (30 May 1846 in Kingston upon Hull, England – 18 January 1884 in Richmond, Victoria) was an English chess player and journalist.
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José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
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Joseph Henry Blackburne
Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924), nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century.
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King's Gambit, Rice Gambit
The Rice Gambit is a chess opening that arises from the King's Gambit Accepted.
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Lasker versus Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889
The chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops to eliminate the pawn cover around his opponent's king, winning material and the game.
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List of chess players
This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.
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List of mini chess tournaments
This article lists some of the famous small chess tournaments in history.
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London 1899 chess tournament
The London 1899 chess tournament was without a doubt one of the very strongest tournaments ever held on British soil.
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Louis van Vliet
Louis van Vliet (17 August 1854, AmsterdamPeter de Jong, at chess club.org – 15 June 1932, London) was a Dutch chess master.
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Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; –) was a leading Russian chess player.
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Morphy number
The Morphy number is a measure of how closely a chess player is connected to Paul Morphy (1837–1884) by way of playing chess games.
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Novotny (chess)
The Novotny (also often spelled as Nowotny, even in non-German sources) is a device found in chess problems named after its discoverer Antonín Novotný.
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Nuremberg 1896 chess tournament
The tournament at Nürnberg 1896 should have become 10.
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Ostend 1907 chess tournament
The tournament was divided into two sections: the Championship Tournament and the Masters' Tournament.
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Paris 1900 chess tournament
The Paris 1900 chess tournament was an event held in conjunction with the Exposition Universelle (1900), one of the world's most notable fairs or exhibitions held during the second half of the nineteenth century and designated a "World Exposition" by the Bureau of International Expositions.
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Queen's Gambit Declined, Rubinstein Trap
The Rubinstein Trap is a chess opening trap in the Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense.
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San Sebastián chess tournament
There were two important chess tournaments in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1911 and 1912.
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Siegbert Tarrasch
Siegbert Tarrasch (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th and early 20th century.
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St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament
The St.
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Stalemate
Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move.
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Threefold repetition
In chess and some other abstract strategy games, the threefold repetition rule (also known as repetition of position) states that a player can claim a draw if the same position occurs three times, or will occur after their next move, with the same player to move.
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Vienna 1898 chess tournament
The tournament celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria's accession to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
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Wilhelm Cohn
Wilhelm Cohn (וילהלם קוהן, February 6, 1859, Berlin – August 17, 1913, Charlottenburg) was a German chess master.
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Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (May 17, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an Austrian and later American chess master, and the first undisputed World Chess Champion, from 1886 to 1894.
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William H. K. Pollock
William Henry Krause Pollock (21 February 1859 in Cheltenham – 5 October 1896 in Clifton, England) was an English chess master, and a surgeon.
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William Wayte
William Wayte (4 September 1829 – 3 May 1898) was a Church of England cleric and a British chess master.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
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1901 in chess
Events in chess in 1901.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Burn
