factoftheday – Chessdom https://www.chessdom.com Chess, chess news, live chess games Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:49:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Sting is an avid chess player #FactOftheDay https://www.chessdom.com/sting-is-an-avid-chess-player-factoftheday/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:44:03 +0000 https://www.chessdom.com/?p=93029 Today’s #FactOftheDay comes from none other than Daily Telegraph Chess Correspondent, CEO of CSC, and ECU Vice President Malcolm Pein. On the anniversary of the “Englishman in New York”, Malcolm Pein shared, “Well over 20 years ago Chris Botti came into the London Chess Centre to buy Sting a travel chess set for his birthday. He said the whole band played. I asked him who wins, Sting came the answer. In June 2000 Sting played with Garry Kasparov in a simul in Time Square” (replay the game here)

More: Sting: Kasparov is one of my heroes!

]]> Draws in chess were not a valid result until… #FactOftheDay https://www.chessdom.com/draws-in-chess-were-not-a-valid-result-until-factoftheday/ Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:33:35 +0000 https://www.chessdom.com/?p=92814 Yes, that is correct, draws were not a valid chess result in tournament play in the 1800s. If a game finished a draw, it had to be repeated. The first event that actually applied the draw rule to the crosstable was Dundee in 1867.

The Dundee tournament is considered the fourth ever international tournament of modern times. The first was in Madrid (1575), Paris (1821), and London (1862). Dundee was won by Neumann ahead of Steinz, and the difference between them was exactly 1/2 points, the draw that counted.

The modern option of no-draw tournament games is Armageddon – where black gets less time, but in case of a draw wins.

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