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    The Dubrovnik chess set is a style of chess pieces. These chessmen are considered to have significant historical importance and are regarded as a timeless...
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    A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen,...
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    The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body...
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    The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
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  • Fischer discussing his Dubrovnik chess set Fischer, Bobby; Margulies, Stuart; Mosenfelder, Donn (1966). Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. ISBN 9780553263152....
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    called Tulip Chess Sets.[citation needed] Chess portal Dubrovnik chess set Makonde chess set Staunton chess set "The Conventional Chess Sets from 1700 to...
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    still carved in Tanzania and Mozambique. Chess portal Dubrovnik chess set Selenus chess set Staunton chess set Alexander Bortolot, "Artesaos da Nossa Patria:...
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  • destroyer Dubrovnik, a destroyer built in 1931 for the Royal Yugoslav Navy KK Dubrovnik, basketball club from Dubrovnik Dubrovnik chess set, a chess set Dubrovnik...
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  • Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; that is, one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force...
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  • a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
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  • from 16 nations played a total of 480 games. The acclaimed 1950 Dubrovnik chess set was designed and manufactured specifically for the Olympiad. The...
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  • World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event...
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  • events. The domain Chess.com was set up in 1995 by Aficionado, a company based in Berkeley, California, to sell Chess Mentor, a chess-tutoring app. In 2005...
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    Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...
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    Romantic chess is a style of chess popular in the 18th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers...
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    can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color. Additional pieces, usually...
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    Lisa Lane (category American female chess players)
    not charged). This, and the end of a love affair, set Lane into a depression. Lane learned to play chess in her late teens. After investing her savings in...
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  • The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...
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    Croatia portal Dalmatia Dubrovnik chess set List of people from Dubrovnik Republic of Ragusa Tourism in Croatia Walls of Dubrovnik Register of spatial units...
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  • Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...
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    A chess table is a table built with features to make it useful for playing the game of chess. They can come in various sizes and shapes, and are usually...
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  • Queen's Gambit (category 15th century in chess)
    The Queen's Gambit is the chess opening that starts with the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 It is one of the oldest openings and is still commonly played today...
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  • The Benko Gambit (or Volga Gambit) is a chess opening characterised by the move 3...b5 in the Benoni Defence arising after: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5...
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  • version of the Dubrovnik chess set by Andrija Maurović was created and produced in the workshop of Jakopović in Zagreb. Changes in the set's redesign can...
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  • London System (category Chess openings)
    The London System is an opening system in chess where White opens with 1.d4 and develops the dark-squared bishop to f4, then supports the d4-pawn with...
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  • The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids) are the official magazines published by the United...
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  • Game, Russian Defence, or Russian Game – Russian: Русская партия) is a chess opening characterised by the following moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 Though...
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    The Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky during the London 1851 chess tournament, an event in...
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  • The Benoni Defense, or simply the Benoni, is a chess opening characterized by an early reply of ...c5 against White's opening move 1.d4. The original...
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  • Modern Chess Openings (14th ed.). Random House. ISBN 0-8129-3084-3. "Carlsen vs. Jakovenko, Nanjing 2009". Chessgames.com. "Evans vs. Opsahl, Dubrovnik 1950"...
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