History

• Games: History  (4)

Chess History Center   - Service center for serious chess historians, clearinghouse of research requests and index to web resources.

Bill Wall's chess page - Articles and information collections on a variety of chess topics. Particularly focused on history and curiosities.

Chesmayne - Raymon Reid's history of chess

Chess Archeology - Photos, drawings, and other chess history tidbits.

Chess Tournament and Match History - A timeline of major matches and tournaments in chess history with crosstables and games in pgn format for free download. Lists of world records.

ChessDryad - Topics in the history of California chess, focused on chess personalities.

Chessmetrics - ELO-style ratings for many historical chess grandmasters.

Goddess Chess - Chess history and speculative history, with a focus on the role of women in chess.

History Of Chess - Description, excerpts, and online purchase of chess history books by Victor Keats, with a particular focus on Judaism.

OlimpBase - Provides history, statistics, and games from team tournaments. Includes articles, results, player profiles, a FAQ and a newsletter.

On The Origin Of Chess - A group of articles with a variety of views regarding the origin of chess.

Schachtexte - History and relationship of chess versions, focusing on East Asian ones. In English and German.

Sports Statistics - Sortable win-loss records of chess players throughout history. Non-ELO ratings.

Traditional Games - Description and history of some board games in the chess family.

US Chess History - Articles by the US Chess Hall of Fame about the history of chess in the United States.