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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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today is governed internationally by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs; the International Chess Federation). The first universally recognized World...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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our departed friend, the sternly whispered, oft repeated syllables, 'echec! echec!!'" John Gaughan, an American manufacturer of equipment for magicians...
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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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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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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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December 14, 2016. "Angers 1990 – 65ème championnat de France". Heritage des Echecs Francais. Archived from the original on May 2, 2017. Retrieved December...
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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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Collection 1001 Notes – Nicolas Horvath Discoveries, 2021 David Christoffel : Echecs Opératiques , Digital Collection 1001 Notes / 4CD ACEL – Nicolas Horvath...
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(1915) Scènes cinématographiques (1916) Director: M. Rivers Films d’une pièce historique tirée de la guerre actuelle (1917) Director: Th. Drouvillé Vues...
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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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Philidor in the 1777 update to his famous 1749 treatise, L'Analyse des Échecs. He called attention to the route of the knight now known as the "W manoeuvre"...
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Mamadou. "OUMOU SALL SECK, LEADER POLITIQUE : L'Amazone qui a tenu en échec le MNLA et les jihadistes". maliactu.net. Mali Actu. Retrieved 9 April 2024...
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contestants eliminate one mystery singer from each group. Exhibit (French: Pièce à conviction) The guest artist and contestants are presented with a video...
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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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