A compact and comprehensive chronicle of the worldwide origins and history of the game of chess—from 500 A.D. to its modern gameplay today Have you ever wonde

Chess has been a favored game for almost fifteen hundred years of human history. From its rise in India, the history of chess has been one of continual growth.

Emil Kemeny appeared on the American chess scene in 1890, a Hungarian chess player on the Lower East Side who had difficulty with English. Within a decade he wa

The history of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. This third volume begins with the establishment of the New York office i