chess timeline

Events related to chess

date	event name	related tags
0600	Modern Chess becomes distinct from Shatranj	chess
1450	The Mad Queen	chess
1575	1st identifiable chess tournament	chess
1770	The Mechanical Turk Hoax	chess
1849	Staunton style pieces established	chess
1861	Timed turns officialised	chess
1886	William Steinitz becomes the 1st World Champion	chess
1967	1st defeat of a human by a computer program in a standard game of chess; Mac Hack VI vs Hubert Dreyfus	chess
1972	Bobby Fischer & Boris Spassky become famous and chess enters pop-culture	chess
1981	The Cray Blitz program achieves a master rating.	chess
1985	Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become world champion and chess continues in pop-culture	chess
1997-05-11	The Deep Blue computer defeats Garry Kasparov in tournament play	chess