eqvilla.blogg.se - Chequebook 18th century

1561 – Inspired by Damiano's previous written work, Spaniard chess player Ruy López writes his book Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez, in which he coins the word gambit to describe opening sacrifices.The Damiano Variation of the Petrov Defense will also later be named for Damiano's work, appearing in a game in which Damiano (playing white) takes advantage of poor play by Black to fork his King and Queen. This opening, the Damiano Defense is named in his honor. One of the oldest surviving manuscripts to detail chess strategy, Damiano's work gives the earliest known refutation of an unsound chess opening. 1512 – Pedro Damiano publishes one of the first chess treatises, Questo libro e da imparare giocare a scachi et de li partiti.1510 – Marco Girolamo Vida wrote Scacchia ludus (The Game of Chess) with the first reference to a goddess of chess.1497 – Luis Ramirez Lucena publishes the earliest surviving work on the modern European game.It mentions the invention of chess by the philosopher Xerxes in Babylon during the rule of Evil-Merodach, the son of Nebuchadrezzar and illustrates the citation with a woodcut of Xerxes. 1493 – Hartmann Schedel publishes the Nuremberg Chronicle.1475 – Scachs d'amor the first published game of modern chess, written as a poem.1475–1525 – Castling and the modern moves for the queen and bishop are slowly adopted.1474 – William Caxton publishes The Game and Playe of Chesse, the first chess book in English.1471 – The Göttingen manuscript is the first book to deal solely with chess.1422 – A manuscript from Kraków sets the rule that stalemate is a draw.late 14th century – The en passant rule is introduced.late 13th century – Pawns can now move two ranks on first move.

1283 – Alfonso X compiles the Libro de los juegos, with an extensive collection of chess problems.

1173 – Earliest recorded use of a form of algebraic chess notation.

late 10th century – Dark and light squares are introduced on a chessboard.

10th century – As-Suli writes Kitab Ash-Shatranj, the earliest known work to take a scientific approach to chess strategy.

1008 – Mention of chess in the will of Count Uregel, another early reference.

997 – Versus de scachis is the earliest known work mentioning chess in Christian Western Europe.900 – Entry on Chess in the Chinese work Huan Kwai Lu ('Book of Marvels'). 840 – Earliest surviving chess problems by Caliph Billah of Baghdad. 720 – Chess spreads across the Islamic world from Persia. Shatranj was initially called "Chatrang" in Persian (named after the Indian version), which was later renamed to shatranj. 600 – The Karnamuk-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan contains references to the Persian game of shatranj, the direct ancestor of modern Chess. 569 – A Chinese emperor wrote a book of xiangqi, Xiang Jing, in AD 569.

6th century – The game chaturanga probably evolved into its current form around this time in India.