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Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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 == |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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 ... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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 ... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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. ... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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 ... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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 ... |
Volowan/wikipedia_few_stem_4kchar | 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 ... |
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