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High-quality chess pieces deserve a high-quality chess board.
SAC is a British manufacturer of high-quality chess sets,
and we are pleased to offer their range of deluxe chess
boards. We have now added a range of coloured boards - the
high gloss finish coloured boards below are particulary
popular, owing to their fine fish, and suit particulary
well SAC's range of hand-decorated chess pieces. |
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The first international chess tournament was the London
Tourney of 1851, won by Adolf Anderssen of Germany, who
then became known unofficially as the world's best chess
player, though he did not receive any award or title. The
first great American-born chess player was Paul Morphy,
of Irish ancestry, who lived in the civil war era. He travelled
to Europe in the 1850s, beating all challengers, including
Adolf Anderssen. However, the English champion of the time
(Staunton) refused to play, so Morphy never became a world
chess champion. The first official championship chess tournament
was played in 1866, also in London, with sandclocks to restrict
the length of a game. This tournament was won by Steinitz,
a Bohemian (Czechoslovakian) Jew, who then became the world's
first official chess champion, holding this title until
1894. Emanuel Lasker, an American born in Germany, also
Jewish, became champion by defeating Steinitz, remaining
champion until 1921, at which time Jose Capablanca, a Cuban,
took the title until 1927. Many people today consider Capablanca
as one of the top 3 chess players who ever lived, the others
being Morphy and Bobby Fischer. Fischer is the first native-born
U.S. citizen to have held the title of World Chess Champion.
Since 1927, most good chess players have been citizens of
the former USSR, and include: Tal, Alekhine, Petrosian,
Spassky, Smyslov, Anatoli Karpov, and Gary Kasparov. A dispute
over tournament procedures between Kasparov and the international
chess organization F.I.D.E. has resulted effectively in
TWO World co-champions: Karpov and Kasparov. Recently, however,
Vishy Anand won the F.I.D.E. championship and is seen by
most as the world's chess champ. |
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