History of Chess Game

Chess was invented in India around the 8th century. Then it was known as
chatrang, and changed over the centuries by the Arabs, Persians and then
ultimately the medieval Europeans, who changed the pieces' names and
appearances to resemble the English court.

Chess got its name from a mispronunciation by British merchants, it was

originally called shah (king in Persian), Shah mat =king is finished.. Chess is
an acronym for Chariot(rook), Horse( knight), Elephant(bishop) and
Soldiers(pawns).

Chess is an abstract strategy game and involves no hidden information. It is played

on a square chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the
start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black
pieces) controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights,
two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the
opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there
is no way for it to escape. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw.

The 10 Best Chess Players Ever

As rating inflation makes it impossible to compare players of
different eras by their ratings, we’ve taken a different approach.
We’ve covered the 10 greatest legends who really dominated the
chess kingdom during their time.

As a bonus, we’ll also dive deep into one of the best chess games
from each player. So, let’s go back in time to meet them!

1) Garry Kasparov (1963) – Greatest of the Greats

Garry Kasparov started ruling the chess world from the age of 22 as
the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985. He
remained #1 until his retirement in 2005. But as they say, “every
Chess master was once a beginner,” and the saying holds for the
champion too.
Garry started his training at the age of 10 at Mikhail Botvinnik’s
chess school. In 1978, he was accidentally entered into a
professional tournament, which he won. By 1983, he was ranked
2nd in the world.

In 1984, he challenged for the World Title but lost to Karpov in a

48-game match. The following year, however, he won the title and
then successfully defended it 3 times.

2) Anatoly Karpov (1951)

Karpov was the youngest-ever Soviet National Master (age 15),

World junior chess champion in 1969, defeated Korchnoi and
Spassky in 1974 and challenged Bobby Fischer for the World Title.
Fischer withdrew from the championship match and Karpov
became the Champion by default.

Reigning from 1975-1985 and 1993-1999 but disputed, with 160

first-place tournaments, he lost his title to Garry Kasparov in 1985
after defending it successfully against Kasparov just the year before.

He won the 1995 Linares tournament, considered to be the

strongest tournament in history. After defending his title
to Gata Kamsky in 1996, he conceded his title in 1999 in
protest over FIDE rule changes to the way the title was
decided. This impressive record certainly3) Magnus Carlsen
(1990)

3. Magnus Carlsen’s chess career is full of great achievements. He

was only 13 years old when he earned his grandmaster title in 2004.
In 2009, Magnus Carlsen reached an impressive Elo rating of over
2800 and just one year later, he became the world’s No. 1 in the
FIDE rankings.

4. Bobby Fischer (1943-2008)

Robert “Bobby” James Fischer began his career at the age of 14.
During his career, he would win 8 US Chess Championships,
become the youngest Grandmaster (at aged 15), and the youngest-
ever candidate for a World Chess Championship. In 1970 he won 20
consecutive matches in the “1970 Interzonal”. In 1972, he defeated
Boris Spassky in a very famous match to become the World Chess
Champion.

1. Eugenio "Eugene" Torre[1][2] (born November 4, 1951) is

a Filipino chess player. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Asian to
qualify for the title Grandmaster by winning the silver medal in the 21st
Chess Olympiad in Nice, France. He is considered the strongest chess player
the Philippines produced during the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the
Philippines on board 1 in seventeen Chess Olympiads. In 2021, Torre was
inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
In a tournament in Manila in 1976, Torre was then the only one to beat the then-
reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in a game that has become part of
Filipino chess history. In 1982 he gained a spot in the World Chess
Championship candidates matches, where he lost to Zoltan Ribli. He served
as Bobby Fischer's second in the 1992 match against Boris Spassky in Yugoslavia.
He currently plays for the Rizal Towers of the Professional Chess Association of
the Philippines.
1.Eugene Torre : 1974 : 
2. Rosendo Balinas Jr. : 1976 (deceased: 1998)
3. Rogelio Antonio Jr. : 1993 : 
2. Rogelio Antonio Jr. (born February 19, 1962) is
a Filipino chess grandmaster,[1] who was awarded the title in 1993. He is
affectionately known as "Joey" Antonio or GM Joey. Antonio finished tied
for 3rd-8th places in the 2009 Asian Chess Championship (ultimately
finishing in 6th place after tiebreaks) and became the first player in the
Philippines' history to qualify for the World Cup later in 2009.
3. Rosendo Carreon Balinas Jr. (September 10, 1941 – September 24, 1998)
was a chess grandmaster from the Philippines. FIDE awarded him
the International Master title in 1975 and the International Grandmaster title
in 1976. Balinas was a lawyer by profession, as well as an award winning
chess writer and journalist.