New In Chess (NIC) is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam. It began...
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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player...
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This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order. Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin. For...
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The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
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notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...
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how the game should be played in each of these phases, especially the opening and endgame. Those who write about chess theory, who are often also eminent...
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Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...
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Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...
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A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...
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Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and...
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World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...
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In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...
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A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by...
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In chess, there is a consensus among players and theorists that the player who makes the first move (White) has an inherent advantage, albeit not one large...
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The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...
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Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career))
American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964...
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The World Chess Championship 2026 will be a chess match to determine the new World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion (the...
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A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...
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a draw In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including...
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open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface. Stockfish...
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Castling (redirect from Castling (chess))
Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...
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Magnus Carlsen (category Norwegian chess players)
November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, the reigning five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, the reigning...
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FIDE (redirect from World Chess Federation)
organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition. FIDE...
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Hikaru Nakamura (redirect from Hikaru (chess))
American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,...
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Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team....
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notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each...
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took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Championship three times in four attempts...
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World Chess Championship 2024 will be a match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh D to determine the World Chess Champion...
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Hypermodern, and New Dynamism eras. In the second half of the 19th century, modern chess tournament play began, and the first official World Chess Championship...
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