Last updated - 09/16/2014 02:45:23 Free Chess School ChessZone.org Russian version :: Chess School Homepage :: ChessZone Magazine :: Chess Library :: Beginners Chess Books :: For Chess Coaches :: Best Games Collections :: Game Stages :: Chess As Fight :: Various Chess Books :: Chess Books Reviews :: Chess Articles :: Chess Software :: Chess Databases :: Chess Links :: About Us :: Chess GuestBook Contact Us Site search :. We recommend :. Syndicate our RSS :. Chess Articles/ 10 Most Amazing Long-Distance Chess Games 10 Most Amazing Long-Distance Chess Games Since the very invention of this game, chess-admirers were restlessly searching for new moves, new strategies, and - which is more important - new partners. But what if a partner one would like to play with, does not live next door, not in the same street and even not in the same country? Remote chess gamesbecame the way out. 1. Chess by correspondence 1119 was the first year of correspondence game between the King of England Henry I and the King of France Luis VI. Thanks to them it began to spread around, and now the history knows even about the games between Venetian and Croatian merchants. The progress went on, and in the XIX Century chess clubs in London and Edinburgh, Moscow and St. Petersburg played chess this way. The latter became so popular that in 1928 the International Union of Correspondence Chess was founded. 2. Phone chess The telephone chess match was first played in 1878. However, this kind of games reached the peak of popularity only in 1970s, whereupon several international phone-matches were held. 3. Chess by telegraph Different chess-clubs sought for the ways to play with their counterparts located in different cities and towns. They found the solution to the problem in 1844 when the telegraph match between Washington and Baltimore was arranged. A little later the same telegraph-chess-matches were held among chess players of European capitals: London vs. Vienna, St. Petersburg vs. London, St. Petersburg vs. Paris. 4. Atlantic cable chess Even chess game via Atlantic cable was carried in 1896. That historical event took place between London and New York on March 13th and 14th. Unfortunately historians didnt give much attention to this fact and decided not to describe it. 5. Space vs. Earth The most eminent chess game was played in the Space using radio communication. The crew of the Soyuz-9 spaceship Andrian Nikolaev and Vitali Sevastianov played white against Terrestrials in 1970, on June 9th. It was their day off - if one can apply the word off to a totally sealed can high above in the sky - and they wanted to play one against another but the Central Control offered them to play together against the Control team on the Earth. That game has been since then known as Space vs. Earth Match. 6. Radio chess Those radio-games began to be held after the World War II, the most famous among which became the match between combined teams of the USSR and USA in 1945, the interest to such kind of remote game grew both in Moscow and New York. Nearly all newspapers widely covered it giving main attention to the game course. In a year the international meeting was held in Moscow with the same teams. 7. Mobile phone chess It is mostly a prerogative of teens to play chess via the cell phone. But the greatest pleasure is the chess-playing with their friends by means of this device. Mobile chess appeared not long ago but penetrates the market quickly as it gives the opportunity to play with the living rival, not a computer, at any time, and at any place where cellular coverage is present. 8. Computers chess Chess-players began to become familiar with the PC right away it has started spreading. Computer software appeared and chess tournamentamong computers began. The 1st Digital Chess Tournament was held in Stockholm in 1970. That was the game of chess for programmers, the game a chess-player does not participate in directly. The chess-players aim be
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