The Game of the Century (chess) The Game of the Century (chess) In chess, The Game of the Century is a chess game played between 26-year-old Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. The competition took place at the Marshall Chess Club. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in "Chess Review". Kmoch wrote, "The following game, a stunning masterpiece of play performed by a boy of 13 against a formidable opponent, matches the finest on record in the history of chess prodigies." Donald Byrne (1930–1976) was
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