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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regarded as the best chess player of his age; his book Analyse du jeu des Échecs was considered a standard chess manual for at least a century. A well-known...
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section contains chess piece figurines. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Each piece type (other than pawns)...
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OCLC 601619310. Giffard, Nicolas; Biénabe, Alain (1993). Le Guide des échecs. Traité complet. Paris: Robert Laffont - Bouquins. pp. 1173–1219. ISBN 9782221059135...
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List of fairy chess pieces (redirect from Centaur (fairy chess piece))
arXiv:2009.04374 [cs.AI]. Giffard, Nicolas; Biénabe, Alain (1993). Le Guide des échecs. Traité complet. "The ShortRange Project". Archived from the original on...
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Glossary of chess (redirect from Minor piece)
organization. FIDE The World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), the primary international chess organizing and governing body. The abbreviated...
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Chess Fever (redirect from La Fièvre des échecs)
she is stopped when she realizes that she was mistakenly given a chess piece by the distracted chemist. The heroine's distress is interrupted by World...
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Rules of chess (section Piece displacement)
Today, the standard rules are set by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), the international governing body for chess. Slight modifications are made...
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as the best reply to 1.d4 in his 1789 book Nouvel essai sur le Jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu. Siegbert Tarrasch rejected...
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almost equally verbose approach in his influential book Analyse du jeu des Échecs, for example, "The king's bishop, at his queen bishop's fourth square."...
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Checkmate (redirect from Échec et mat)
ranks or files and force the king to the side of the board by using one piece to check the king and the other to cut it off from going up the board. In...
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International Chess Open: American grid after round 9]. Fédération Française des Échecs (in French). Archived from the original on 27 September 2023. Retrieved...
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today is governed internationally by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs; the International Chess Federation). The first universally recognized World...
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His columns have included, among many others: Echecs et mythes Fêtes et défaites sur l'échiquier Les échecs féériques et libertaires Bobby Fischer: el rey...
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one foot soldier (pawn). Chess portal History of chess Metropolitan "Les échecs de Charlemagne". classes.bnf.fr. Gilmour, Leslie (August 7, 2021). "The...
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versions de la vie (2000). Life x 3, trans. Christopher Hampton (2003). Une pièce espagnole (2004). A Spanish Play. Le Dieu du Carnage (2006). God of Carnage...
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Nijevelt (1743-1826). In his renowned treatise on chess, La Supériorité aux Échecs, published in 1792, Van Zuylen van Nijevelt articulated his disdain for...
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Nimzovich. Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-20448-0. "A la découverte des échecs hypermodernes avec MI Gerard Welling" by Dany Sénéchaud (in French) Modern...
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largely on his authorship of the early chess book Essai sur le jeu des echecs published 1737 in France (English translation: The Noble Game Of Chess 1745)...
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Official Rules of Chess, which is based on the Fédération Internationale des Échecs rules. The grandmaster Larry Evans offered this advice on buying a set:...
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our departed friend, the sternly whispered, oft repeated syllables, 'echec! echec!!'" John Gaughan, an American manufacturer of equipment for magicians...
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February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023. "Le Cap d'Agde 2006". europe-echecs.com. 8 November 2006. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved...
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as online chess or correspondence chess. Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) or the World Chess Federation, the game's international governing...
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1981 (Vol C), p. 196, n. 2. François André Philidor, Analyse du jeu des Échecs, 1749. Hooper & Whyld 1996, p. 398. Steinitz Variation. Kasparov & Keene...
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divorce case Gil Blas 8/31/1886 Un duel A duel Le Gaulois 8/14/1883 Un échec A failure Gil Blas 6/16/1885 Une famille A family Gil Blas 8/3/1886 Une...
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since landing in his hew home of Reykjavik Iceland Friday March 25th 2005". echecs-photos.be. March 11, 2008. Archived from the original on October 10, 2011...
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algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Camil Seneca, Bulletin Ouvrier des Echecs, 1949 A simple example of an Albino is the problem to the right, a mate...
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scacc(h)ōrum or scacc(h)ī in Latin, scacchi in Italian, escacs in Catalan, échecs in French (Old French eschecs), schaken in Dutch, Schach in German, szachy...
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ISBN 0-486-20317-4. (Previously published by G. Bell & Sons, 1955.) Bréviaire des échecs, one of the best known introductory texts for chess in the French language...
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retrograde analysis problems is proof game problems. Éric Angelini, Europe Echecs 433, Apr. 1995 An example of a retrograde analysis problem is shown on the...
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