First-move advantage in chess draw given best play prevails. Even if it cannot be proved, this assumption is considered "safe" by Rowson and "logical" by Adorján. Watson agrees that "the proper result of a perfectly played chess game ... is a draw. ... Of course, I can't prove this, but I doubt that you can find a single strong player who would disagree. ... I remember Kasparov, after a last-round draw, explaining to the waiting reporters: 'Well, chess is a draw. World Champion Bobby Fischer thought that "it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically". Similarly, British grandmaster Nigel Short wrote that
A History of Chess untranslated from their original languages (medieval forms of French and German and Spanish etc.). Murray's companion work was "A History of Board-Games other than Chess" . He also wrote "A Short History of Chess", published in 1963. In the words of Daniel E. O'Sullivan, David Shenk writes in "The Immortal Game": A History of Chess The book A History of Chess was written by H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) and published in 1913. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of