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Valencia
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In 1851 the first major chess tournament was held in London. So that would be my answer.
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That's a good question. I think it was the United States of America.
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I don't know whether this is what you meant, but 'modern chess' is a game invented by someone in Puerto Rico which is played on a board nine by nine square, and which has an extra piece, the 'minister'. One thing is certain; this variant will not last as long as the original game, which in the form we play it, has been going for five hundred years.
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