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Best chess game of the 20th century

This is the Game Of The Century, an amazing historical chess game between Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer, played in New York on October 17, 1956. [Site "New York"] [Date "1956.10.17"] [White "Byrne, ...
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People played chess over the telegraph in 1844 and it accidentally created the first e-sport

On a cold November afternoon in 1844, players in Washington opened a chess game in the old, familiar way, with a pawn pushed ...