# Chess

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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:24.365Z
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## Summary

Two players, sixty-four squares, thirty-two pieces, perfect information, no chance. The deepest combinatorial structure ever absorbed into a popular pastime. Key sections include: Chess.; Opening The royal game.; Chapter I Origins.; Chapter II Shatranj.; Chapter III The slow European centuries.; Chapter IV The mad queen, 1475.; Chapter V Philidor and the pawns.; Chapter VI Staunton's pieces.; Chapter VII The first champion, 1886.; Chapter VIII Lasker, 1894–1921..

## Slide Outline

1. Chess.
2. Opening The royal game.
3. Chapter I Origins.
4. Chapter II Shatranj.
5. Chapter III The slow European centuries.
6. Chapter IV The mad queen, 1475.
7. Chapter V Philidor and the pawns.
8. Chapter VI Staunton's pieces.
9. Chapter VII The first champion, 1886.
10. Chapter VIII Lasker, 1894–1921.
11. Chapter IX Capablanca's machine.
12. Chapter X Alekhine.
13. Chapter XI Botvinnik and the Soviet century.
14. Chapter XII Fischer–Spassky.
15. Chapter XIII Fischer afterward.
16. Chapter XIV Karpov.
17. Chapter XV Kasparov.
18. Chapter XVI The K-K rivalry.
19. Chapter XVII 1997, the machine.
20. Chapter XVIII The interregnum.
21. Chapter XIX Magnus.
22. Chapter XX Ding, Gukesh, and the new generation.
23. Chapter XXI Stockfish, Komodo, Leela.
24. Chapter XXII AlphaZero, 2017.
25. Chapter XXIII Opening theory and tablebases.
26. Chapter XXIV Chess.com and Lichess.
27. Chapter XXV 2020.
28. Chapter XXVI Twenty-five works.
29. Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
30. Chapter XXVIII What chess is for.
31. Chapter XXIX 2026.
32. // end of deck

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