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What was happening 15 years ago? Yurgelevich's 1933 Chess-Battle resurfaces at CVPage, http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/chessbattle.html. 50 years ago? Tal wins at Bled, Slovenia, September 1961, Fischer second, http://www.worldchesslinks.net/ezqa31.html. 500 years ago? James Mennels' book on chess variants had been published in 1507, http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=460, or http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=460&start=40. 900 years ago? Louis VI of France escapes imprisonment 1110, saying that in chess the king cannot be captured -- http://www.chessquotes.com/topic-kings.
Add my favorable vote to the others. I find the articles interesting and enjoyable--and I say this as someone who has has disagreements in the past with Mr. Duke. If anyone doesn't like them they are easy to skip--no need for the CVP to spoil it by removing interesting articles.
That, geologic deep time ago heh, 400 years(license), Shakespeare finished 'The Tempest' 1611 with chess-playing Ferdinand and Miranda, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest in the new to them Caribbean world. Chess: http://sparknotes.com/shakespeare/tempest/themes.html. The notable line, ''o brave new world that has such people in it.'' More '500-year' ones are not ready yet by documentation. Thanks Joe John Ben [later Michael above], there's really no matter of any change other than that several history threads should become one article in advocacy for inciting reform/revolution.
I also enjoy the historical notes. I would be very interested to hear about something noteworthy happening 500 years ago. I don't think these notes need to be generated every day, but every now and then is nice.
I've been visiting this chess variant site for almost 14 years. I like these posts by George. They sometimes remind me of things I've participated in that I have forgotten, and I'll go to the old threads to review the discussion.
Http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/history.txt, The above being the lead originating source for more inquiry, this was started last year in finding for instance that Ultima is invented 50 years ago: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=27050.
Does anyone even know (much less, care) what was happening 500 years ago to the day in the chess variant community?
What was happening 15 years ago? Thirteen years ago to the month, July 1998, more conveniently indexed for a change than 1996, are Master Chess Triple Game http://www.chessvariants.org/shape.dir/mastertriple.html, Heaven http://www.chessvariants.org/39.dir/heaven.html, and Chessapeak http://www.chessvariants.org/d.photo/chessapeak3.html. What was happening 50 years ago? Fischer-Reshevsky Match begins 16.July.l961, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Reshevsky, jointly staged in New York and Los Angeles.
What was happening 15 years ago? What was happening 50 years ago? What was happening 500 years ago? 15 years ago: January 1996 saw current postings of the historic standbys Raumschach, Tamerlane, and Shatranj. http://www.chessvariants.org/3d.dir/3d5.html, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/tamerlane.html, http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/shatranj.html. 50 years ago: Bled 1961 was one of the strongest ever. Bled, Slovenia tournament is won by Mikhail Tal former w.c. over Petrosian future w.c., Keres, and Gligoric. And over Bobby Fischer who finishes second at Bled. http://www.worldchesslinks.net/ezqa31.html, http://www.rookhouse.com/events/bled1961.html. 500 years ago: In 1511 Spanish Diego Velazquez de Cuellar conquered Cuba after a million Caribbean natives had already been mass murdered by machete since 1492 the barrier broken. There had been 125 million American people in 1490, 1500, the very years thought of as modern Chess origination.
Triggered by yesterday's five 'ones', what was happening fifteen years ago to the month? 50 years ago to the year, and 500 years ago to the decade? 15 years ago here: Avalanche Chess posted of Betza 1970s device, http://www.chessvariants.org/mvopponent.dir/avalanche.html. 50 years ago: Ultima invented, http://www.chessvariants.org/other.dir/ultima.html, posted 15 years ago, a perfect 15/50. 60 years ago: Thomas Rayner Dawson dies age 62, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rayner_Dawson. 500 years ago: Lucena's takes root, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Ramirez_de_Lucena.
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