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Millennium 3D chess is a three-dimensional chess variant created by William L. d'Agostino in 2001. It employs three vertically stacked 8×8 boards, with each player controlling a standard set of chess pieces. The inventor describes his objective as "extending the traditional chess game into a multilevel environment with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_3D_chess |
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament from its creation in 1938 until the sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form the Corus Group in 1999, after which the tournament was renamed the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Steel_Chess_Tournament |
Critter is a cross-platform UCI chess engine by Slovakian programmer Richard Vida which is free for non-commercial use. The engine has achieved top five on most official chess engine Elo rating lists.
== History ==
Richard Vida started working on Critter in late 2008. The first version was originally written in Objec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critter_(chess) |
In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a type of chess problem that starts with a composed position—i.e. one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—where the goal is to find the essentially unique way for one side (usually White) to win or draw, as stipulated, against any moves th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_study |
Chess libraries are library collections of books and periodicals on the game of chess. In 1913, preeminent chess historian H. J. R. Murray estimated the total number of books, magazines, and newspaper columns pertaining to chess to be about 5,000 at that time. B. H. Wood estimated that number, as of 1949, to be about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_libraries |
In a game of chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Because pawns are the least mobile of the chess pieces, the pawn structure is relatively static and thus plays a large role in determining the strategic character of the position.
== General ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_structure |
The Opera Game was a chess game played in 1858 at an opera house in Paris. The American master Paul Morphy played against two amateurs: the German noble Karl II, Duke of Brunswick, and the French aristocrat Comte Isouard de Vauvenargues. It was played as a consultation game, with Duke Karl and Count Isouard jointly dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Game |
The World Chess Championship 1984–1985 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov in Moscow from 10 September 1984 to 15 February 1985 for the World Chess Championship title. After 5 months and 48 games, the match was called off, with Karpov leading 5 to 3, and 40 draws. The mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1984%E2%80%931985 |
Legan chess (or Legan's game) is a chess variant invented by L. Legan in 1913. It differs from standard chess by the starting position as well as by pawn movements.
== Rules ==
The starting setup is illustrated. The game can be also played with the board rotated by 45° clockwise to make pawn movements easier to under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legan_chess |
Rhombic chess is a chess variant for two players created by Tony Paletta in 1980. The gameboard has an overall hexagonal shape and comprises 72 rhombi in three alternating colors. Each player commands a full set of standard chess pieces.
The game was first published in Chess Spectrum Newsletter 2 by the inventor. It wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_chess |
Christopher Geoffrey Ward (26 March 1968) is a British chess Grandmaster (GM), chess coach, and author. He grew up in North West Kent, on the edge of Vigo Village and played his early chess at the village school chess club.
Ward went on to win the British Championship in 1996, earning the GM title in the process. He is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ward_(chess_player) |
Chess is a 2006 Indian Malayalam-language revenge action thriller crime film directed by Raj Babu. Dileep plays the male protagonist and Bhavana is his heroine. The film also stars Ashish Vidyarthi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Harisree Ashokan, Vijayaraghavan and Rajyalakshmi.
== Plot ==
Vijayakrishnan is an ordinary man who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(2006_film) |
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he was widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play.
Capablanca was born in 1888 in the Castillo del Príncipe, Havana. He beat Cuba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ra%C3%BAl_Capablanca |
Fritz and Chesster (German: Fritz und Fertig) is a series of educational programs about chess for children. In each of the four PC games, Fritz White and his cousin Bianca learn chess with the help of the anthropomorphic rat Chesster. In the first three games, they learn various elements of chess before competing again... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_and_Chesster |
Christian Bauer (born 11 January 1977) is a French chess grandmaster and author. He is a three-time French Chess Champion (1996, 2012, 2015).
In 2005 he won the 2nd Calvia Chess Festival. In 2009, came first at Vicente Bonil ahead of 21 GMs and 33 titled players. In 2010, he tied for 1st–7th with Alexander Riazantsev,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bauer |
In chess, a trap is a move which tempts the opponent to play a bad move. Traps are common in all phases of the game; in the opening, some traps have occurred often enough that they have acquired names. If the opponent sees through the trap, it can backfire.
== List of chess traps ==
Ordered by chess opening:
Albin C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_traps |
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.
The English journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and the design is named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staunton_chess_set |
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) is a fast online chess tournament circuit organized by Chess.com.
== History ==
== Editions ==
Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour 2020
Champions Chess Tour 2021
Champions Chess Tour 2022
Champions Chess Tour 2023
Champions Chess Tour 2024
== References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_Chess_Tour |
Silver Star Chess is a chess video game for WiiWare. It costs 500 Nintendo Points to download.
== Reception ==
The game has been criticized for its poor artificial intelligence and lack of online multiplayer.
== References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Star_Chess |
The Women's Chess World Cup is a women's major chess competition organized by FIDE.
== Winners and results ==
"Qual" refers to the number of players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament based on the World Cup results (marked with green background) other than players who have otherwise qualified before the start ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Chess_World_Cup |
The term Chess Bundesliga (German: Schach-Bundesliga) normally refers to the premier league of team chess in Germany established in 1980. It is arguably the strongest league of its kind and attracts many high-rated grandmasters.
Austria also has a Bundesliga for chess, usually described as the Bundesliga OST (for Öster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Bundesliga |
A chess database is a database of chess games.
== List of notable chess databases ==
Chess Assistant
Chess Informant Expert
Chess opening book (computers)
Chess.com
chess24
ChessBase
Lichess
Shane's Chess Information Database
== See also ==
Computer chess
List of chess games
List of chess software
== References =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_database |
Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2008, and a list of the top ten players during that year:
== Events ==
(Top events in bold)
=== January ===
January 1 – Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) gains 14 rating points to move from number three to head the FIDE top 100 players lists at 2799. Viswanathan Anand (In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_chess |
Scachs d'amor (Valencian: [esˈkagz ðaˈmoɾ], meaning "Chess of Love"), whose complete title is Hobra intitulada scachs d'amor feta per don Francí de Castellví e Narcis Vinyoles e mossén Fenollar, is the name of a poem written by Francesc de Castellví, Bernat Fenollar, and Narcís Vinyoles, published in Valencia, Kingdom ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scachs_d%27amor |
Extinction chess is a chess variant invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger, editor of Games magazine, in 1985. Instead of checkmate as the winning condition, the object of the game is the elimination of all of a particular type of piece of the opponent. In other words, the objective is any of the following:
capture all th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_chess |
Anna Rudolf (born 12 November 1987) is a Hungarian chess player, chess commentator, livestreamer, and YouTuber who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a three-time Hungarian women's national chess champion and has represented Hungary at the Chess Olympiad and the European T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Rudolf |
This is a timeline of chess.
== Early history ==
6th century – The game chaturanga probably evolved into its current form around this time in South Asia.
569 – A Chinese emperor wrote a book of xiangqi, Xiang Jing, in AD 569.
c. 600 – The Karnamuk-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan contains references to the Persian game of sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chess |
A Game at Chess is a comic satirical play by Thomas Middleton, first staged in August 1624 by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre. The play is notable for its political content, dramatizing a conflict between Spain and England.
The plot takes the form of a chess match, and the play includes some genuine chess moves. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_at_Chess |
Crazyhouse is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced, or dropped, into the game as one's own. It was derived as a two-player, single-board variant of bughouse chess. Its drop rule is reminiscent of shogi and the games are often compared, though there is no known evidence suggesting that shog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazyhouse |
Chess (Polish: Szachy) is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski, first published in 1564 or 1565. Inspired by Marco Girolamo Vida's Scacchia Ludus, it is a narrative poetry work that describes a game of chess between two men, Fiedor and Borzuj, who fight for the right to marry Anna, princess of Denmark. The poem anthropomo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(poem) |
Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster and is an eight-time British Chess Champion. His highest ranking is world No. 4, achieved several times from October 2000 to October 2002. His peak Elo rating is 2761, the highest achieved by an English chess player.
Several times a World Championshi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Adams_(chess_player) |
Chess Team is a series of 20 military science-fiction fantasy novels written by American author Jeremy Robinson, featuring the ex-Delta Force operator, Jack Sigler.
== Premise ==
Formed under special order from the President of the United States (Thomas Duncan), the Chess Team faces off against the world's most dange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Team |
Atousa Pourkashiyan (Persian: آتوسا پورکاشیان; Persian pronunciation: [ɒːtuːˈsɒː puːɾkɒːʃiˈjɒːn]; born 16 May 1988) is an Iranian-American chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009.
== Career ==
Pourkashiyan is seven-time Iranian women's champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atousa_Pourkashiyan |
Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) is an American former chess player, martial arts world champion, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film Searching for Bobby Fischer is based on his early life.
== Early life and education ==
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Waitzkin |
Basic Chess Endings (abbreviated BCE) is a book on chess endgames which was written by Grandmaster Reuben Fine and originally published on October 27, 1941. It is considered the first systematic book in English on the endgame phase of the game of chess. It is the best-known endgame book in English and is a classic piec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Chess_Endings |
David Ionovich Bronstein (Russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bronstein |
Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages. The earliest works of art centered on the game are miniatures in medieval manuscripts, as well as poems, which were often created with the purpose of describing the rules. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_in_the_arts |
Chaturanga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग, IAST: caturaṅga, pronounced [tɕɐtuˈɾɐŋɡɐ]) is an ancient Indian strategy board game. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.
While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga |
Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess player, author, and journalist who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1957. He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times. He wrote a long-running syndicated chess column a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Evans_(chess_player) |
Amsterdam 1956 was a chess tournament won by Vasily Smyslov. It was the Candidates Tournament for the 1957 World Chess Championship match between Smyslov and Mikhail Botvinnik.
== References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_1956 |
The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted at the Brassey Institute in Hastings, England from 5 August to 2 September 1895.
Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred. All of the top players of the generation competed. It was one of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_1895_chess_tournament |
Chess Scotland is the governing body for chess in Scotland. It was formed in 2001 with the merger of the Scottish Chess Association (SCA) and the Scottish Junior Chess Association (SJCA).
It is one of the oldest national chess associations in the world, the SCA having been founded in 1884. As the national organisation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Scotland |
The Slovak Chess Championship is the chess competition, which determines the best slovak chess player.
== History ==
1993 - today - championships of Slovakia
for Czechoslovak championship see Czechoslovak Chess Championship
== Men's winners ==
=== In Slovakia, part of Czechoslovakia ===
=== In independent Slova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Chess_Championship |
A chess opening book is a book on chess openings. This is by far the most common type of literature on chess. These books describe many major lines, like the Sicilian Defence, Ruy Lopez, and Queen's Gambit, as well as many minor variations of the main lines.
== Types ==
There are several types of opening manuals:
Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_opening_book |
David Martínez Martin is a Spanish chess player and coach of several Spanish players including David Anton Guijarro and Sabrina Vega. He was also director of chess24 chess platform in Spanish, and well known Spanish chess streamer and chess commentator.
== Chess career ==
In June 2024, he organized the "Clash of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mart%C3%ADnez_(chess_player) |
The Chess Master (Chinese: 棋王; pinyin: Qíwáng; lit. 'Chess King'), is a 1984 novella by Chinese writer Ah Cheng. It features characters who are part of the Down to the Countryside Movement, which occurred after the Cultural Revolution. Written from the point of view of an unnamed narrator, it describes the titular char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Master |
The Chess Federation of Canada or CFC (French name: Fédération canadienne des échecs) is Canada's national chess organization. Canadian Chess Association, founded in 1872, was replaced in 1932 by the Canadian Chess Federation (CCF), which for the first time included representation from all major cities in Canada. In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Federation_of_Canada |
A bitboard is a specialized bit array data structure commonly used in computer systems that play board games, where each bit corresponds to a game board space or piece. This allows parallel bitwise operations to set or query the game state, or determine moves or plays in the game.
Bits in the same bitboard relate to ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitboard |
Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by the World Chess Federation FIDE from the 1950s to the 1990s. They were a stage in the triennial World Chess Championship cycle and were held after the Zonal tournaments, and before the Candidates Tournament. Since 2005, the Chess World Cup has filled a similar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interzonal_chess_tournaments |
In chess, opposition (or direct opposition) is a situation in which two kings are two squares apart on the same rank or file. Since kings cannot move adjacent to each other, each king prevents the other's advance, creating a mutual blockade. In this situation, the player not having to move is said to have the oppositio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_(chess) |
Computer Chess is a 2013 independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrew Bujalski. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, and subsequently screened at such festivals as South by Southwest and the Maryland Film Festival.
It is Bujalski's s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Chess_(film) |
The Singapore Chess Federation (Abbreviation: SCF) is the principal authority over all chess events in Singapore. SCF was founded in 1949 by Lim Kok Ann. The Federation is affiliated to the world governing body, International Chess Federation (FIDE), and is part of the ASEAN Chess Confederation and the Asian Chess Fede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Chess_Federation |
Initiative in a chess position belongs to the player who can make threats that cannot be ignored, thus putting the opponent in the position of having to spend turns responding to threats rather than creating new threats. A player with the initiative will often seek to maneuver their pieces into more and more advantageo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative_(chess) |
In chess, and particularly in endgame studies, domination occurs when a player controls all movement squares of an enemy piece.
== Examples ==
This position occurred in the game Beliavsky–Korchnoi, György Marx Memorial, 2004. White blundered with 38.Kh2? allowing 38...Qd3 – this dominates the knight: despite having ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination_(chess) |
Descriptive notation is a chess notation system based on abbreviated natural language. Its distinctive features are that it refers to files by the piece that occupies the back rank square in the starting position and that it describes each square two ways depending on whether it is from White or Black's point of view. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_notation |
PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess tournaments hosted by Chess.com. Players in the tournament are internet personalities, primarily Twitch streamers. The first four PogChamps tournaments took place over the course of two weeks, while the fifth iteration lasted four weeks. The first and second PogChamps had p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PogChamps |
Sega Chess (also known as Master Chess) is a 1991 chess video game developed by Probe Software and published by Sega for the Master System.
== Gameplay ==
The game can be viewed from overhead or in a pseudo 3D mode. There are nine skill levels: beginner to grandmaster. Resigning is not included in the game. Sampled s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Chess |
Following are the official winners of the national Brazilian Chess Championships from 1927 to date.
The 1998 championship was held 9–19 December in Itabirito, Minas Gerais State.
The field of sixteen played a series of two-game single-elimination matches to determine the finalists.
Rafael Leitão defeated Giovanni Vesco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Chess_Championship |
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. It is traditionally described as a gambit because White appears to sacrifice the c-pawn; however, this could be considered a misnomer as Black cannot retain the pawn w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Gambit |
Cyber Chess is a chess-playing computer program developed by William Tunstall-Pedoe. It was written for the Acorn Archimedes and published commercially by The Fourth Dimension.
== Development ==
Evaluation of moves was tuned by use of a genetic algorithm.
== Gameplay ==
The game provides play against another human ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Chess |
In chess, a grotesque is a problem or endgame study which features a particularly unlikely or impossible initial position, especially one in which White fights with a very small force against a much larger black army. Grotesques are generally intended to be humorous.
== Examples ==
=== Ottó Bláthy ===
A particular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(chess) |
The 42nd Chess Olympiad (Azerbaijani: 42-ci Şahmat Olimpiadası; also known as the Baku Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and women's tournaments, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, was an international team chess event held... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Chess_Olympiad |
The World Rapid Chess Championship 2024 was the 2024 edition of the annual World Rapid Chess Championship held by FIDE to determine the world champions in chess played under rapid time controls. The tournament was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City from 26 to 28 December 2024, using a Swiss system with 13 ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Rapid_Chess_Championship_2024 |
Quality Chess UK Ltd (known as Quality Chess) is a chess publishing company, founded in 2004 by International Master Ari Ziegler, Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard and Grandmaster John Shaw. The company is based in Glasgow.
In 2024 it was announced that Quality Chess bought New in Chess and Popular Chess.
The company focuses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_Chess |
Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shape – the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Staunton |
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