Category: Chess Curiosities

CHESS CURIOSITIES – BLINDFOLD SIMULTANEOUS GAME RECORDS BY ALEKHINE

Alekhine portrait - LearningChess.netAlekhine is known for his fierce and imaginative attacking style, combined with great positional and endgame skill. But he is also known for his simultaneous blindfold game records.

 

 

 

 

CHESS CURIOSITIES – THE SHOVER OF GOLD

Frank Marshall playing Stepan Levitsky-Breslau 1912Only one game is known in chess history when after the winning move a ‘shower of gold’ was thrown on the chessboard. Let’s see how all this happened.

CHESS CURIOSITIES – MONUMENTAL HUMAN CHESS

Our Illustrated Chess History series was very welcome. Unfortunately, we had to leave out a lot from the certain parts, because it would have been too long for anyone to read it through. But I decided on starting a similar series named Chess Curiosities, in which I will try to gather the most interesting chess related happenings. Receive the first part tenderly.

Human Chess in Petrograd, Palace square, 1924 - kids learn chess here too