A 64-square uncheckered gaming board used in India as early as the 2nd century B.C. and borrowed for chess.
ECHESSPEDIA
Quotes of the Day
I don’t particularly like being searched electronically. It is inconceivable that such a thing would happen in any other sport. It is fundamentally anti-chess, and I think the people who are behind this decision need their heads looked at! They are sick! They are ruining the very beauty that is chess.
Nigel Short 2016
“Chess is the struggle against the error.”
Johannes Zukertort
Chess…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level.
Dr. Chad Witherspoon 2014
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.
Magnus Carlsen 2017
Danailov, in his campaign, used the motto – “I know.” One or two months later he said “I am learning.” Three years after, we know that he cannot learn. He gave so many promises, he has done absolutely nothing.
Georgios Makropoulos 2013