ACADEMY, Chess

aca_logo A place where indoor games were played.

The first chess academy was conducted at Fontainebleau, France in 1680.

Academies des Jeux is also a French title for books published in the 17th and 18th centuries describing indoor games and amusement.

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I never make mistakes in chess, I only have hallucinations! Vlastimil Hort
1987
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw Dr. Vidmar
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess. Irving Chernev
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy. Nathan Divinsky
2004
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers. Vishy Anand
2008

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