Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess program to explore the possible results of candidate moves. Despite...
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En passant (redirect from En passant (chess))
case in the rules of chess. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy pawn passed over, as if the enemy pawn had advanced only one square. The...
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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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Viswanathan Anand (redirect from Chess Anand)
11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion. He became 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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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 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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variants) Advanced chess, Centaur chess or Cyborg chess Blindfold chess Correspondence chess Blitz chess Chess as mental training Chess boxing The Chess Variant...
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strength. For more advanced users, PyChess allows for virtually any other external chess engine to be used with it. Development on PyChess was started by...
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Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed and released in 1992 by Daniel MacDonald. The game is played on a 10×10 board with four extra squares...
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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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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 others...
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Chess Battle Chess Battle vs. Chess Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess Chess Champion 2175 Chess Mates Chess Player 2150 Chess Simulator Chess Titans Chess Ultra...
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The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It may move one square directly forward, it may move two squares directly...
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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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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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Eros Riccio (category Italian chess players)
Lucca) is an Italian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, Advanced Chess Champion and chess opening book author. He is FICGS World Champion and...
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R Praggnanandhaa (category Indian chess players)
2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. As of 20 June 2024,[update] Praggnanandhaa is ranked No. 8 in the world by the International Chess Federation. Praggnanandhaa...
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Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to...
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The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2023 was a fast chess tournament circuit that was organized in 2023 by Chess.com. The tour started on 6 February 2023 and...
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1969) and Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) have played 93 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won eleven, Anand won eleven, and 71 games were...
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Vladimir Kramnik (category Chess Grandmasters)
1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006...
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Microchess (category Chess software)
the most advanced chess engine possible. It was possibly the first computer game to be sold commercially, and was the first commercial chess program for...
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The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many...
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Tamerlane chess is a medieval chess variant. Like modern chess, it is derived from shatranj. It was developed in Central Asia during the reign of Emperor...
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Xiangqi (redirect from Chinese chess)
(/ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular...
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Garry Kasparov (category Chess coaches)
1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved...
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During this time certain chess grandmasters devoted themselves to the improvement of chess programming, with their advanced knowledge of the game. Most...
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Battle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations showing the result of one piece moving onto the square of another...
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The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame. It begins when few pieces are left on the board. The line...
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