The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining the...

king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color. Additional pieces, usually an extra queen per color...

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...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

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...

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...

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, two...

Handicaps (or "odds") in chess are handicapping variants which enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one. There are a...

improbable scenarios. Most chess sets come with only the 32 pieces used in the starting position. Some chess sets come with an extra queen of each color, but...

Wonderland) Queen, a character from the video game Deltarune Queen, the codename for Makoto Niijima, a character from Persona 5 Queen (chess), the most...

are often slightly stronger than two rooks (ten points) or a queen (nine points). Chess-variant theorist Ralph Betza identified the 'leveling effect'...

for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, and N for knight. Different initial letters are used by other languages. In modern chess literature, especially...

arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess game, each player begins with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and...

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...

avoid or induce stalemate or for humorous reasons. While some chess sets include an extra queen of each color, most standard sets do not come with additional...

Threeparty chess (1970) Meddlers' chess (1970) Semi-queen chess (or half-queen's chess) (1970) Sphinx chess (1970) Timur's cubic chess (1970) Wyvern chess (1970)...

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...

Rori Motuba as Christine Namaganda Tim Crothers wrote The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster...

This is a list of chess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants estimates that there are well...

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...

Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...

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...

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally...

Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. It was played while the London 1851 chess tournament was in progress...

novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who...

checkmate, while Byrne's queen sits useless on the other side of the board. This section uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. White: Donald Byrne...

move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once. Castling with the king's rook is called kingside castling, and castling with the queen's rook is...

The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...

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...

algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The white king starts on e1, on the first file to the right of the queen from White's perspective. The black...