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Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made up of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares in each row and column. Each...
The history of chess goes back almost 1500 years. The game originated in northern India in the 6th century AD and spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered...
market are: Internet Chess Club Playchess Chess databases do not actually play. They give access to the recorded history of master chess. There are two components...
A chess club is a place where people come to play chess. Sometimes, chess clubs host chess tournaments. Many chess clubs are open to the public, while...- (the only one in chess) whereby king and rook move past each other. See page for details. The earliest form of chess. See History of chess. Any deliberate...
World Chess Champions are players who have won a match or tournament for the World Championship at chess. Both men and women can become champion, but no...- This is a list of chess grandmasters rated 2700+, plus other players of the highest status. There are at present over 1900 chess grandmasters, and the...
- Chess notation is a method for writing down chess moves: after a player makes a move, both players write it down. This is compulsory in all organized...
Azerbaijani chess players Azerbaijani Chess Championship World Chess Federation – Azerbaijan (in English) Azerbaijan Chess Federation – History – Federation...- Chess openings are listed and classified according to their first few moves. There are interesting statistics on the frequency of chess openings from...
called the new game schacci alla rabioso (~furious chess). Murray H.J.R. 1913. The history of chess. Oxford. p225 reprint ISBN 0-936317-01-9 Hooper, David...
is a piece in the board game of chess. It gets its name from its name in the old Indo-Arabic game (see History of chess). Each player starts the game with...
Hou Yifan (redirect from Yifan Hou(chess player))became the youngest World Chess Champion in chess history (men's or women's) by winning the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 in Hatay, Turkey, at the...- Chess Olympiads are chess events open to all national teams. They have been run since 1927 by the world chess organisation, FIDE. Since 1950, they have...
A chess tournament is a competition between chess players. It can take one of these forms: A knock-out tournament. Not a popular choice in chess events...
Fortress chess (also called Russian Four-Handed chess) is a chess variant (a kind of chess with different rules) for four players. The board has 192 squares...
Xiangqi (redirect from Chinese chess)one of the most popular chess games in China.p78 History of chess Shogi Pritchard, David Brine 1994. The Encyclopedia of chess variants. ISBN 0-9524142-0-1...- A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on his performance against other players. They are used by...
of chess symbols. This means that chess symbols can be encoded as text instead of images. Algebraic notation (text that shows where to move a chess piece)...
Chess is one of the most popular sports in Azerbaijan, where it is organized by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). On May 5, 2009 Azerbaijani president...
- There are six types of chess pieces in the game of chess: the pawn, the knight, the bishop, the rook, the queen, and the king. Chess pieces A piece of cake