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with the theme Chess




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Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a chequered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in parks, clubs, online, by correspondence and in tournaments.

The first official World Chess Championship was held in 1886 and was won by Prague-born Wilhelm Steinitz. In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships. The Chess Olympiad is a popular competition among teams from different nations. Online chess has provided amateur and professional competition to a large and varied group of players.

Since the second half of the 20th century, computers have been programmed to play chess with increasing success, whereby a powerful home computers is able to play chess at a higher level than the best human players. In the past two decades computer analysis has contributed significantly to chess theory. The computer 'Deep Blue', a chess-playing computer developed by American computer company IBM, was the first machine to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion in a match, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

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2023, New issue subscription on stamps with Chess

ayypms5, New Issue Subscriptions, 2023

10.00
Mint NH

1947, Balkan games 5v

sbl0606, Bulgaria, 1947

5.00
Mint NH

1948, Chess games Moscow 3v

ssq1292, Russia, Soviet Union, 1948

30.00
Mint NH
3.00
Used or CTO

1950, Chess candidates tournament 3v

sho1092, Hungary, 1950

9.00
Mint NH

1953, 8 years liberation 7v

sho1297, Hungary, 1953

2.00
Mint NH

1956, Chess deaf games 2v

spl0954, Poland, 1956

1.50
Used or CTO

1958, Student chess games 1v

sbl1073, Bulgaria, 1958

5.50
Mint NH

1958, M.J. Tschigorin 1v

ssq2137, Russia, Soviet Union, 1958

0.70
Used or CTO

1960, Chess 3v

sdd0786, Germany, DDR, 1960

1.20
Mint NH
2.00
Used or CTO

1962, Chess olympiade 5v imperforated

sbl1329, Bulgaria, 1962

5.00
Mint NH
4.50
Used or CTO

1962, Chess olympiade s/s

sblb009, Bulgaria, 1962

10.00
Mint NH
25.00
Mint NH

1962, Chess tournament 3v

sna0330, Netherlands Antilles, 1962

2.60

-20%

2.08

Mint NH

2.50

-10%

2.25

First Day Cover

1962, Chess 3v, FDC

snafe022c, Netherlands Antilles, 1962

4.00

-10%

3.60

First Day Cover

1963, Chess 3v imperforated

ssq2763b, Russia, Soviet Union, 1963

1.00
Used or CTO

1964, Chess olympiade 2v

sis0312, Israel, 1964

2.10

-10%

1.89

Mint NH

1.60

-10%

1.44

First Day Cover

1965, Game 1v

sea0267, Egypt (Republic), 1965

1.30
Mint NH

1965, Chess game 1v

seapal73, Egypt (Republic), 1965

1.40
Mint NH

1965, Europa, chess 1v

ssm0842, San Marino, 1965

0.90
Mint NH
0.70
Used or CTO
1.10
First Day Cover

1966, Chess olympiade 6v

scv1215, Cuba, 1966

3.00

-20%

2.40

Mint NH

1966, Chess 1v

sfr1542, France, 1966

0.70
Mint NH
0.70
Used or CTO

1966, Chess 1v, imperforated

sfrp1542b, France, 1966

80.00
Mint NH

1966, Chess olympiade 6v

sro2478, Romania, 1966

5.00
Mint NH
1.60
Used or CTO

1966, Chess world championship 1v

ssq3225, Russia, Soviet Union, 1966

1.10
Mint NH
0.70
Used or CTO

1966, Sports s/s

ssqb043, Russia, Soviet Union, 1966

7.00
Mint NH
2.25
Used or CTO

1966, South pacific games 2v

swf0214, Wallis & Futuna, 1966

6.75
Mint NH

1967, Fairy tales 6v m/s

sdd1323kb, Germany, DDR, 1967

3.50
Mint NH
3.50
Used or CTO

1967, Chess Grand Prix 1v

smo0864, Monaco, 1967

0.70
Mint NH

1967, Morish art 8v

sykp0412, Yemen, Kingdom, 1967

4.50

-15%

3.83

Mint NH

1967, Moorish art in Spain 8v, imperforated

sykp0412b, Yemen, Kingdom, 1967

6.00

-15%

5.10

Mint NH

1968, Famous persons 5v

sdd1386, Germany, DDR, 1968

1.10
Mint NH
0.90
Used or CTO

1968, Mixed issue 4v

szw0870, Switzerland, 1968

1.10
Mint NH
0.90
Used or CTO
1.50
First Day Cover

1969, World championships 3v

sdd1491, Germany, DDR, 1969

0.70
Mint NH
0.70
Used or CTO
1.50
First Day Cover

1970, Soyuz 9 1v

ssq3779, Russia, Soviet Union, 1970

0.70
Used or CTO

1972, Welfare, Chess 4v

sbr0435, Germany, Berlin, 1972

3.00
Mint NH
1.20
Unused (hinged)
2.50
Used or CTO

1972, Chess 6v

sfu1319, Fujeira, 1972

6.00

-10%

5.40

Mint NH

1972, Chess s/s

sfub133, Fujeira, 1972

3.40

-10%

3.06

Mint NH

1972, World chess championship 1v

sij0464, Iceland, 1972

0.70
Mint NH
0.70
Used or CTO

1972, Olympic games Munich 6v

sir1586, Iran/Persia, 1972

12.00

-10%

10.80

Mint NH

1972, Chess olympics 2v

sjo1472, Yugoslavia, 1972

1.00
Mint NH

1972, Chess Olympiade 2 m/ss

sjo1472kb, Yugoslavia, 1972

9.00
Mint NH

1972, 8th int. Chess Competition Medunarodni

sjosp720325, Yugoslavia, 1972

4.00
Postal History

1972, Chess olympiade 1v

stt0787, Tunisia, 1972

2.70
Mint NH

1972, Welfare, chess 4v

swd0742, Germany, Federal Republic, 1972

2.60
Mint NH
1.80
Used or CTO
2.50
First Day Cover

1973, 25+15c, Chess, Stamp out of set

lne1038, Netherlands, 1973

0.70
Mint NH
0.70
Used or CTO

1973, Sports week 3v

sin0744, Indonesia, 1973

5.00

-15%

4.25

Mint NH

1973, Bore Kostica memorial

sjosp730916, Yugoslavia, 1973

4.00
Postal History

1973, Textile 8v

slb1187, Lebanon, 1973

15.00

-10%

13.50

Mint NH

1973, World chess games 2v

smi0375, Mali, 1973

6.00
Mint NH

1973, Child welfare, games s/s

sne1042, Netherlands, 1973

3.25
Mint NH
3.00
Used or CTO
6.00
First Day Cover

1973, Child welfare, games 4v

sne1038, Netherlands, 1973

2.00
Mint NH
2.00
Used or CTO

1973, Dam, child welfare 4v FDC

snefdam73, Netherlands, 1973

3.00
First Day Cover

1973, Child welfare 4v FDC

snef129, Netherlands, 1973

1.80
First Day Cover

1973, Child welfare s/s FDC

snef129a, Netherlands, 1973

35.00
First Day Cover

1973, Child welfare 4v, Blocks of 4 [+]

snep1038q, Netherlands, 1973

6.75
Mint NH

1973, Chess 1v

snj0364, Niger, 1973

3.50
Mint NH

1973, Card, text: Uw bijdrage

sqbf1973b, Netherlands, Fdc Child Thank You Cards, 1973

2.00
First Day Cover

1973, Card, text: Uw hulp...

sqbf1973c, Netherlands, Fdc Child Thank You Cards, 1973

4.50
First Day Cover

1973, Card, text: De scholenactie...

sqbf1973s, Netherlands, Fdc Child Thank You Cards, 1973

2.00
First Day Cover

1973, Praha burg 2v

sts2141, Czechoslovkia, 1973

2.30
Mint NH

1974, Chess olympiade 1v

scn0784, Cameroon, 1974

4.50
Mint NH

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