American Chess Day Timeline

1950

Alan Turing

Alan Turing writes the first chess computer program

1475–1500

Birth of the Modern Game

Rules for the game as we play it today are developed

900

How-To

Early Muslim chess masters, as-Suli and al-Lajlaj write about the technique of chess

600

C-H-E-S-S

The first recorded reference to chess shows up in a Persian manuscript