Portal:Chess/Selected picture archive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[edit] June 20 - July 14, 2006
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Semyon Zinovievich Alapin was a Russian (Lithuanian by birth) Jew active in the construction of chess puzzles and the development of openings and opening theory in the late nineteenth and early tweniteth centuries best known for having contributed to three extant principal lines of play. Alapin popularized a line in the Sicilian Defence, listed in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings as B22, in which the player with white pieces seeks to prevent the player with the black pieces from achieving a superior pawn structure and to limit the options of black by replying to 1. e4 c5 with 2. d3; the opening is thematically similar to the closed Sicilian variation. Alapin is also thought to have been the first prominent player to essay a gambit with 3 Be3 in a French Defense; this move, though generally now looked upon with disfavor, is nevertheless frequently annotated as an interesting move (!?). Alapin was responsible for the development of an eponymous opening for white, pictured, in which the reply to 1. e4 e5 is 2. Ne2; the rarely-used opening, also referred to as the Hippopotamus opening is often played who seek to avoid common open games, such as those resulting from a Ruy Lopez and Scotch Game, into the latter of which the opening sometimes transposes. Serbian Grandmaster Ljubomir Ljubojević notably employed the Alapin Opening in a game during a 1970 tournament contested in Groningen, the Netherlands.
[edit] May 26, 2006 - June 20, 2006
Image:Fischer Score Card.jpg
Although most contemporary players record their moves in algebraic notation, descriptive notation was popular for most of the twentieth century. Here, Bobby Fischer (United States) records the game score of his 48-move victory over Miguel Najdorf (Argentina) in the third round of the 1970 Chess Olympiad, held in Siegen, West Germany. Fischer would finish the tournament having scored 10 points in 13 games, earning him a first board silver medal.
[edit] March 10, 2006 - May 26, 2006
Chess can be played almost anywhere. In this case, in a bath.
[edit] February 24, 2005 - March 10, 2006
Chess board and pieces have always been one of the favourite subjects of 3D computer graphics artists. This image depicts a Staunton chess set.
[edit] December 26, 2005 - February 24, 2005
The Turk was a famous hoax which purported to be a chess-playing automaton.
[edit] September 4, 2005 - December 26, 2005
This 1983 Faroe Islands stamp features a chess king.
[edit] August 22, 2005 – September 4, 2005
The 1984 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov (right) and Garry Kasparov (left)
[edit] August 8, 2005 – August 21, 2005
Beijing residents playing Xiangqi (Chinese chess), a game commonly played in China.
[edit] July 19, 2005 – August 7, 2005
[edit] July 12, 2005 – July 18, 2005
A game clock consists of two adjacent clocks and buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, such that the two component clocks never run simultaneously. Game clocks are used in two-player games where the players move in turn. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each player takes for his or her own moves, and ensure that neither player overly delays the game. They are extensively used in chess.
