TELEGRAPH AND RADIO CHESS

A form of chess not used any more where moves were sent by telegraph or radio using a code developed by Udemann. The first team match was played between Washington and Baltimore in 1844. Other high-level matches were the encounters between Chigorin and Steinitz in 1890, Paris and Petersburg in 1894-95 and a series of cable matches played between England and the USA between 1896 and 1911. Among the radio matches, two top events were organised in 1945 between the USSR and the USA and the USSR and Great Britain, both won by the Soviets 15½-4½ and 18-6, repectively.

The Soviet team of 1945 with Lilienthal, Boleslavsky, Makogonov, Bondarevsky, Bronstein. Seated: Kotov, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Ragozin and Flohr