Introduction to Chess History

Continuing with Links related to my About.com material, I extracted a few more articles related to chess history.

• The Origin of Chess
  
• Chess in the Middle Ages
  
• The Origin of Modern Chess
  
• The French School of Chess (18th/19th cent.)
  
• Chess in the Early 19th Century : Chess Becomes Organized
  
• The Origin of International Chess Events
  
• Rise of the Soviet Chess Hegemony
  
• The Rise of Internet Chess

These are articles I wrote in 2005-7.