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Tatev Abrahamyan - Michael Adams - Andras Adorjan - Advanced Chess - Afrasiab - Simen Agdestein - Ajeeb - Vladimir Akopian - Alapin's Opening - Albin Countergambit - Albino (chess) - Alexander Alekhine - Alekhine's Defense - Algebraic chess notation - Algorithm - Alice Chess - Allumwandlung - Amazons (game) - Viswanathan Anand - Andernach chess - Adolf Anderssen - Ulf Andersson - Archon (computer game) - Arimaa - Artificial castling - Maurice Ashley - Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli - Henry Atkins - Atomic Chess - Avalanche chess - Tatev Abrahamyan (b. ... Michael Adams was born on October 17, 1971 in Truro, England. ... ANDRAS ADORJAN (born March 31, 1950) is known as an author and Hungarian International Grandmaster of chess. ... Advanced Chess is a relatively new form of chess, first introduced by grandmaster Garry Kasparov, with the objective of a human player and a computer chess program joining forces and competing as a team against other such pairs. ... Ajeeb was a chess-playing automaton, created by Charles Hooper (a cabinet maker), first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868. ... Vladimir Akopian (born December 7, 1971) is a leading Armenian chess master. ... Alapins Opening is an unusual chess opening that starts with the moves 1. ... Main line after 3. ... An Albino is a chess problem in which, at some stage in the solution, a white pawn standing on its starting square makes each of its four possible moves: one square forward, two squares forward, capture to the left and capture to the right. ... Alexander Alekhine Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (sometimes spelled Aljechin) (in Russian, Александр Александрович Алë́хин), (October 31 or November 1, 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a chess master and a former World Chess Champion. ... Alekhines Defence is a chess opening for Black beginning with the moves 1. ... Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to record and describe the play of chess games. ... Amazons is a board game invented by Walter Zamkauskas in 1988 as El Juego de las Amazonas. ... Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan Anand (pronounced Viswahnəhthən Ahnənd) (born December 11, 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster. ... Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a famous German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th century chess. ... Archon is a computer game developed by Free Fall Associates and distributed by Electronic Arts. ... Atomic chess is identical to standard chess with one exception. ...

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BabasChess - Babson task - Back rank mate - Etienne Bacrot - Baroque chess - Alexander Beliavsky - Benko Gambit - Benoni Defense - Henry Bird - Bishop (chess) - Bitboard - Joseph Henry Blackburne - Blackmar-Diemer Gambit - Blindfold chess - Blitz chess - Blunder - Board game - Board game complexity - Samuel Boden - Bogo-Indian Defence - Efim Bogoljubov - Mikhail Botvinnik - Branching factor - David Bronstein - Tom Brownscombe - Budapest Defense - Bughouse chess - Amos Burn - C. M. Burns - Categories: Stub ... The Babson task is a kind of chess problem (composition chess) of the form white to move and mate black in N moves against any defence with the following play: White makes his first move. ... Etienne Bacrot (born January 22, 1983) is a French chess grandmaster. ... Baroque chess is a chess variant invented in 1962 by Robert Abbott. ... A bishop (♗♝) is a piece in the board game of chess. ... Joseph Henry Blackburne, nicknamed Black Death, dominated the British chess world during the latter part of the 19th century. ... This chess opening begins with 1. ... Blindfold Chess is a way to play chess, whereby play is conducted without the players having sight of the positions of the pieces, or any physical contact with them. ... Blitz chess (also known as speed chess or blitzkrieg chess) is a game of chess where each side is given very little time to make all of their moves. ... Samuel Standidge Boden (1826 - 1882), was an English professional chess master. ... The Bogo-Indian is a chess opening characterised by the moves 1. ... Efim Dmitriyevich Bogoljubov, alternatively Yefim Bogolyubov, (1889 – 1952) was a leading Russian chess master. ... Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik (Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник) (August 17, 1911 - May 5, 1995) was a Russian International Grandmaster and long-time World Champion of chess. ... David Ionovich Bronstein (born February 19, 1924) is renowned as a leading chess grandmaster and writer. ... The Budapest Defense is a chess opening beginning with the moves 1. ... Bughouse Chess (also called sometimes Double Chess, Siamese Chess, Double Bug or Tandem Chess) is a chess variant played with two teams of two people with two chess boards. ... Mr. ...

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Candidates Tournament - Capablanca Chess - José Raúl Capablanca - Magnus Carlsen - Caro-Kann Defense - Castling - Catalan Opening - Center Counter Defense - Center Game - Chaturanga - Check - Checkerboard - Checkers - Checkmate - Chess - Chess as mental training - ChessBase - Chessboard - Chess boxing - Chess club - Chess expert - Chess game collection - Chess in early literature - Chess in Europe - Chess Life - Chess (musical) - Chess Olympiad - Chess opening - Chess or the King's game - Chess piece - Chess Player's Chronicle - Chess problem - Chess problem terminology - Chess prodigy - Chess puzzle - Chess Records - Chess-related deaths - Chess strategy and tactics - Chess terminology - Chess variant - Maya Chiburdanidze - Chigorin Defense - Mikhail Chigorin - Circe chess - John Cochrane - Colle System - Combination (chess) - Compact chess - Computer chess - Computer Olympiad - Nathaniel Cook - Correspondence chess - Corus chess tournament - Cox-Forbes theory - Czech Benoni - The Candidates Tournament was an annual chess tournament in which various chess players play against each other. ... Capablanca chess. ... Initial position Kingside castling (0-0) Queenside castling (0-0-0) Castling is a special move in the game of chess involving the king and either rook. ... The Center Counter Defense or Scandinavian Defense is a chess opening characterized by the moves (in algebraic notation) 1. ... The Center Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves 1. ... Chaturanga. ... starting position on a 10×10 draughts board Draughts, also known as checkers, is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemys pieces. ... A chessboard is the board used in the game of chess, which consists of eight rows and eight columns of squares arranged in alternating colors. ... Chess boxing is a hybrid sport which, as the name suggests, combines the sports of chess and boxing. ... Chess clubs are clubs with the intent of getting together and playing chess with others. ... The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e. ... One of the most common ways for chess historians to trace when the board game chess entered a country is to look at the literature of that country. ... The exact location, time and method of the entry of chess into western Europe is unknown, however linguistic evidence suggest that it was almost certainly obtained from the Arabs. ... Chess is a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romantic triangle between two players in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other. ... The first moves of a chess game are the opening moves, collectively referred to as the opening. ... In chess, each player has one of two equivalent sets of pieces of different colors. ... Sam Loyd, London Era, 1861 Excelsior by Sam Loyd. ... Chess prodigies are children who play chess so well that they are able to beat Masters and even Grandmasters, often at a very young age. ... As with all games over a certain age, chess has been associated with a number of anecdotes; some of these relate to games that have gotten out of hand and resulted in the murder of one of the players involved. ... The Chigorin Defense is a chess opening named for 19th century Russian grandmaster Mikhail Chigorin. ... John Cochrane (1798 - 1878), was a Scottish chess master and lawyer. ... White has achieved the basic Colle setup and is prepared for the thematic e4 push. ... In chess, a combination is a relatively long sequence of moves, often initiated by a sacrifice, which leaves the opponent few options and results in tangible gain. ... Compact chess is a chess variant which is played on a 6x6 board whereby the bishops are moved to replace the king and queens pawn. ... The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. ... Nathaniel Cook was the designer of a set of chess figures, which is now the standard set. ... Correspondence chess is chess played by some sort of long-distance correspondence, usually through a Correspondence Chess Server or e-mail or the postal system. ... The Benoni Defense is a group of chess openings generally characterized by the opening moves 1. ...

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Damiano Defence - Danish Gambit - Deep Blue - Deep Blue - Kasparov, 1996, Game 1 - Deep Fritz - Deep Junior - Deep Thought (chess computer) - Arnold Denker - Descriptive chess notation - Dice chess - Discovered attack - Sergey Dolmatov - John W. Donaldson - Draw (chess) - Draw by mutual agreement - Henry Dudeney - Durkin Opening - Dutch Defence - The Damiano defense The Damiano Defense is an inferior chess opening characterized by the opening moves 1. ... Kasparov vs. ... Deep Junior is a computer chess program authored by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shay Bushinsky. ... Deep Thought is a computer, first in a line of chess computers that included Deep Blue, the computer that defeated Garry Kasparov in a six-game chess match. ... Arnold Sheldon Denker (February 20, 1914 – January 2, 2005) was an American chess player. ... Descriptive chess notation, or just descriptive notation is a notation for recording chess games, and at one time was the most popular notation for doing so. ... In chess, a discovered attack is an attack revealed when one piece moves out of the way of another. ... John W. Donaldson is an international master of chess. ... In chess, a draw is one of the possible outcomes of a game (the others being a win for white and a win for black). ... Henry Ernest Dudeney (10 April 1857 – 24 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. ... The Durkin Opening is a very rarely played chess opening beginning with the move (in algebraic notation): 1. ...

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Early Arabic chess literature - Ed Edmondson - Jaan Ehlvest - Eight queens puzzle - ELO rating system - Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings - Endgame - Endgame study - English Chess Federation - English Opening - Max Euwe - Evaluation function - Evans Gambit - Evergreen game - With the sole exception of two works in Middle Persian (the Karnamak and the Chatranj Namak) all of the early works (pre-1000) on chess were written by Arabic authors. ... Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962 at Tallinn in Estonia) is a chess player. ... One of the 12 unique solutions The eight queens puzzle is the problem of putting eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard such that none of them is able to capture any other using the standard chess queens moves. ... The English Opening is the chess opening 1. ... Max Euwe Machgielis (Max) Euwe (last name is pronounced /ø:wə/) (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player. ... The Evans Gambit is a chess opening with the moves (in algebraic notation) 1. ...

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Fairy chess piece - Fédération Internationale des Échecs - Fianchetto - Fifty move rule - Reuben Fine - Nick de Firmian - Bobby Fischer - Fischer Random Chess - Salo Flohr - Fool's mate - Fork (chess) - Fork (disambiguation) - Forsyth-Edwards Notation - Franco-Benoni - Franco-Sicilian defense - Free Internet Chess Server - French Defence - Fritz - A fairy chess piece or unorthodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants and some chess problems. ... Bobby Fischer. ... Fools mate is the quickest possible checkmate in the game of chess. ... The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run Internet chess server. ... The French Defence is a chess opening. ...

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Gambit - Game classification - Game clock - Game of strategy - The Game of the Century - Games table desk - Game theory - Game tree - Nona Gaprindashvili - Efim Geller - Florin Gheorghiu - Svetozar Gligoric - Rusudan Goletiani - International Grandmaster - GNU Chess - Go (board game) - Bill Goichberg - Grand chess - Greatest chess player of all time - Greek gift sacrifice - Grid chess - Grimshaw - Walter Grimshaw - Grünfeld Defence - Eduard Gufeld - Guioco Piano - Isidor Gunsberg - A gambit is a chess opening, where something is sacrificed in order to achieve a better position. ... Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximize their returns. ... Efim Petrovich Geller (March 2, 1925 - November 17, 1998) was a Soviet chess player. ... FLORIN GHEORGHIU (born April 6, 1944) is a Romanian chess master and university lecturer in foreign languages. ... Svetozar Gligorić (born February 2, 1923) is a chess grandmaster. ... Rusudan (Rusa) Goletiani was born on September 8, 1980 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, Republic of Georgia. ... The five original grandmasters of chess, from left to right: Lasker (seated), Alekhine, Capablanca, Marshall, Tarrasch (seated) The title International Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. ... Grand Chess is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling. ... Devised by Walter Stead in 1953, grid chess is a chess variant played with a grid board. ... A Grimshaw is a device found in chess problems in which two black pieces arriving on a particular square mutually interfere with each other. ... Walter Grimshaw was a 19th century composer of chess problems. ... The Grünfeld Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves (in algebraic notation) 1. ... Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld was born 19 March 1936 in Ukraine and died 23 September 2002 at the age of 66 in the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. ... The Giuoco Piano is a chess opening characterized by the moves 1. ...

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Half-open file - Max Harmonist - Hastings 1895 chess tournament - Wolfgang Heidenfeld - Helpmate - Julian Hodgson - Vlastimil Hort - Bernhard Horwitz - Israel Horowitz - Robert Hubner - Hungarian Defense - Hydra (chess) - Hypermodernism - In chess, a half-open file, or semi-open file, is a file with no pawns of one color. ... Max Harmonist (1864-1907) was a leading German chess master. ... The chess tournament that was conducted at Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2 1895 has been called by many commentators as the greatest of all time, and a milestone in the history of chess, for several reasons. ... Wolfgang Heidenfeld (May 29, 1911 - August 3, 1981) was a chess player. ... Z. Maslar Die Schwalbe, 1981 Helpmate in eight moves. ... Julian Michael Hodgson (born July 25, 1963) is an English International Grandmaster and former British Champion of chess. ... Vlastimil Hort (b. ... Bernhard Horwitz (1808-1885) was a German chess master. ... Doctor Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948 in West Germany) is a respected German chess Grandmaster and papyrologist (recognised as an expert in Egyptian hieroglyphics). ... The Hungarian Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves 1. ...

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov - Immortal game - Impartial game - International Grandmaster - International Master - Internet Chess Club - Interzonal - Inverted Hungarian Opening - Vassily Ivanchuk - Igor V. Ivanov - Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Russian: Кирса́н Никола́евич Илюмжи́нов) (b. ... The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet site devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ... Vassily Ivanchuk (Васи́лий Ива́нчук), born March 18, 1969 in Berejiany, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. ... Igor V. Ivanov was a Grandmaster of chess. ...

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David Janowski - J'Adoube - Dawid Janowski (1868 - 1927) was a leading Polish chess master. ... JAdoube is a French term and an internationally recognised phrase used by chess players, the English translation being I Adjust. The phrase gives warning from a player to his opponent that he is about to adjust the position of a chess piece; normally to centralise it on the square...

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Charles Kalme - Kangaroo Defense - Sergey Karjakin - Anatoly Karpov - Garry Kasparov - Raymond Keene - Paul Keres - Alexander Khalifman - Nino Khurtsidze - King (chess) - King's Gambit - King's Indian Attack - King's Indian Defence - King's knight's gambit - Knight - Knight (chess) - Knight's Tour - Knightmare Chess - Hans Kmoch - Viktor Korchnoi - Alexander Kotov - Vladimir Kramnik - Kriegspiel - Irina Krush - Kubb - Charles Kalme (November 15, 1939–2003) was an International Master of chess recognized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. ... In the game of chess, the Kangaroo Defense, sometimes referred to as the Keres Defense, is an opening characterized by 1. ... Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (born January 18, 1966) is a Russian chess player. ... Nino Khurtsidze (b. ... The king (♔♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. ... The Kings knights gambit is a chess opening. ... The silver Anglia knight, commissioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ... Hans Kmoch is an influential chess author. ... Viktor Korchnoi (also Korchnoy, Kortchnoy, Kortschnoj, etc) (Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й) (born March 23, 1931) is a professional chess player. ... Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Kramnik (Владимир Крамник), born June 25, 1975, is a Russian chess player. ... Irina Krush (December 24, 1983- ) is an American chess player. ...

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Tommy Lapid - Bent Larsen - Lasker Trap - Joel Lautier - Légal Trap - Emanuel Lasker - Latvian Gambit - Péter Lékó - Libro de los juegos - Life Master - Linares chess tournament - List of chess openings - List of chess world championship matches - List of game topics - List of national chess championships - Johann Löwenthal - Lucena position - Yosef Tommy Lapid ( יוסף טומי לפיד ) is an Israeli politician and a minister. ... Bent Larsen Bent Larsen (born March 4, 1935) is a Danish chess player. ... Position after 5. ... After 5. ... Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player and mathematician, born at Berlinchen in Brandenburg (now Barlinek in Poland). ... The annual Linares chess tournament takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain in which it is held. ... Johann Löwenthal Johann Jacob Löwenthal (July 15, 1810 – July 24, 1876) was a 19th century professional chess master. ... The Lucena position is one of the most famous and important positions in chess endgame theory. ...

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Madrasi chess - Johann Nepomuk Mälzel - Maria Manakova - Marshall Defense - Frank Marshall - Match of the Century - Alexander McDonnell - Luke McShane - Mechanical Turk - Mein System - Vera Menchik - Mexican Defence - Middlegame - Tony Miles - Minor exchange - Modern Defense - Modern Benoni Defense - Monkey's Bum - Montglane Service - Paul Morphy - Harold James Ruthven Murray - Madrasi chess is a chess variant invented in 1979 by A. J. Karawatkar which uses the conventional rules of chess with the addition that when a piece is attacked by a piece of the same type but opposite colour (for example, a black queen attacking a white queen) it is... Johann Nepomuk Mälzel (August 15, 1772 - July 21, 1838) was an inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. ... This article is about the early 20th century chess champion. ... The World Chess Championship match between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, 1972, has been dubbed the Match of the Century. ... Engraving of the Turk The Turk was a famous hoax which purported to be a chess-playing automaton first constructed and unveiled in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804). ... My System: 21st Century Edition front cover Mein System ( German for My System), originally published in 1925, is a book on chess theory written by Aron Nimzowitsch. ... The Knights Tango, also known as the Mexican Defense or the Black Knights Tango is a chess opening that begins d4 Nf6 c4 Nc6. ... In chess, the middlegame refers to the portion of the game that happens immediately after the opening (usually the first move after the procession of moves that make up a standard opening) and blends somewhat with the endgame. ... Anthony John Miles (April 23, 1955 – November 12, 2001) was an English chess player. ... The Modern Defense also known as the Robatsch Defense is a chess opening in which Black allows White to occupy the center with pawns on d4 and e4. ... The Benoni Defense is a group of chess openings generally characterized by the opening moves 1. ... The Monkeys Bum is a variation of the Modern Defense, a chess opening. ... Paul Morphy Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 - July 10, 1884), The Pride and Sorrow of Chess, is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his time, and was an unofficial World Champion. ...

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Miguel Najdorf - National sport - Peter Heine Nielsen - Neo-Grünfeld Defence - Nimzo-Indian Defence - Aaron Nimzowitsch - Frank Niro - Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu - Novotny - John Nunn - Miguel Najdorf (born as Mieczysław Najdorf; 1910 - 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess player. ... Peter Heine Nielsen (born May 24, 1973) is a Danish chess player. ... The Neo-Grünfeld Defense is a chess opening. ... Frank Niro, a former hospital administrator, was Executive Director of the United States Chess Federation in 2002 and 2003. ... Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (born August 1, 1976) is a Romanian chess player. ... The Novotny (also often spelled as Nowotny, even in non-German sources) is a device found in chess problems. ... John Denis Martin Nunn (born April 25, 1955) is an English chess player and mathematician. ...

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Old Indian Defence - Omega chess - Open file - Opening manual - Opera game - Origins of chess - John Owen (chess player) - The Old Indian Defense is a chess opening. ... Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed by Daniel MacDonald in Toronto. ... In chess, a open file is a file with no pawns. ... This article or section should be merged with Opening book Opening manuals, which discuss chess openings, are by far the most common type of literature on Chess play. ...

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Patrol chess - Pawn - Pawn (chess) - Perpetual check - Richard Peterson - Tigran Petrosian - Petrov's Defense - François-André Danican Philidor - Harry Nelson Pillsbury - Pin - Pin (chess) - Pirc Defence - Plachutta - Play-by-mail game - Ply - Judit Polgar - Zsofia Polgar - Zsuzsa Polgar - Lev Polugaevsky - Ruslan Ponomariov - Ponziani Opening - Portable Game Notation - Portal:Chess - Lajos Portisch - Promotion - Patrol chess is a chess variant in which captures can be made and checks given only if the capturing or checking piece is guarded (or patrolled) by a friendly unit. ... The pawn (♙♟) is the weakest and most numerous piece in the game of chess, representing infantry, or more particularly pikemen. ... Tigran Petrosian Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian (June 17, 1929 – August 13, 1984) is a former world chess champion. ... portrait from L’analyze des échecs. ... Pin is a word with multiple meanings: Look up Pin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together. ... In chess, a pin is a situation in which a piece is forced to stay put because moving it would expose a more valuable piece behind it to capture. ... Judit Polgár Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. ... Zsuzsa Polgár (born April 19, 1969 in Budapest, Hungary), is among the strongest female chess players in history. ... Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukrainian: Руслан Пономарьов; Russian: Русла́н Пономарёв) (born October 11, 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player. ... Portable Game Notation (.PGN) is a computer-processable format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data); many chess programs recognize this extremely popular format due to its accessibility by ordinary ascii editors, including word processors capable of importing and exporting plain ascii. ... Lajos Portisch is a Hungarian chess player, born in 1937, whose positional style earned him the nickname of the Hungarian Botvinnik. One of the strongest non-Soviet grandmasters in the 1960s and 1970s, he participated in 12 straight interzonals and qualified for the candidates cycle 5 times. ... Promotion may mean: Promotion (chess), a term used in the game of chess Promotion (marketing), a marketing term Promotion (rank), an increase in position in a hierarchy Promotion (academic), German academic degree that is roughly equivalent to the Ph. ...

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Queen (chess) - Queening - Queen's Gambit - Queen's Indian Defence - The queen is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. ...

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Teimour Radjabov - Samuel Reshevsky - Richard Reti - Richard's Play By Email Server - Richter-Veresov Attack - Rook (chess) - Eugène Rousseau - Akiba Rubinstein - Rules of chess - Ruy Lopez - Teimour Radjabov Teimour Radjabov (b. ... Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born November 26, 1911, Ozorkow, Poland - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a leading American chess Grandmaster. ... Richard Réti (1889 - 1929) was a Czechoslovakian chess player, although he was born in what was then Hungary. ... Richards Play By Email Server is a server on the internet setup for the playing of various different online games in the play-by-email method. ... A rook (borrowed from Persian رخ rokh) is a piece in the strategy board game of chess. ... Akiba Rubinstein (born 12 December 1882, died 15 March 1961 in Antwerp) was a brilliant Polish chess master and a famous grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. ... Starting position While the exact origins of chess are unclear, the modern rules of chess first took form in Italy during the 16th century. ...

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Anthony Saidy - Pierre St. Amant - Sample chess game - Carl Schlechter - Scholar's mate - Don Schultz - Scotch Game - Herbert Seidman - Yasser Seirawan - The Seventh Seal - Shahnama theory - Shatranj - James Sherwin - Alexei Shirov - Shogi - Shogi variant - Nigel Short - Shortest proof game - Sicilian Defence - Simultaneous display - Sam Sloan - Smart Game Format - Smith-Morra Gambit - Smothered mate - Vasily Smyslov - Solved board games - Boris Spassky - Jon Speelman - Stalemate - Charles Stanley (chess player) - Howard Staunton - Antoaneta Stefanova - Leonid Stein - Wilhelm Steinitz - Stonewall Attack - Strategy game - Ströbeck - Alexey Suetin - Mir Sultan Khan - Evgeny Sveshnikov - Peter Svidler - Swiss system tournament - Tony Saidy at the 2002 U.S. Chess Championships in Seattle, Washington Anthony Saidy (b. ... Pierre Charles Fournier de St. ... This is a sample game of chess, recorded in standard algebraic chess notation, and accompanied by commentary. ... In chess, scholars mate is the checkmate which occurs after the white moves (in algebraic notation) 1. ... The Scotch Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves 1. ... Herbert Seidman was a U.S. Senior Master of chess. ... Yasser Seirawan Yasser Seirawan (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. ... Alexei Shirov Alexei Shirov (Aleksejs Å irovs, Алексе́й Широв) (born July 4, 1972 in Riga, Latvia), is one of the top chess grandmasters in the world today. ... A shortest proof game (or simply proof game) is a type of chess problem in which the solver must construct a game, starting from the initial position in chess, which ends with a given position after a given number of moves (sometimes no number of moves is given and the... Samuel Howard Sloan (b. ... Image:Smyslov. ... Howard Staunton Howard Staunton (April 1810 - June 22, 1874) was an English polymath. ... Leonid Stein (1934 – 1973), Soviet chess player from Ukraine. ... Wilhelm Steinitz Wilhelm Steinitz (May 17, 1836, Prague, Czech Republic (then Austrian Empire) - August 12, 1900,New York City, United States) was an Austrian chess player, and the first official World Champion of chess. ... Mir Sultan Khan (1905 - 1966) was generally considered to have been the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. ... Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov (born 1950) is a Latvian International Grandmaster of chess. ... Peter Svidler Peter Svidler (Пётр Свидлер; Pyotr Svidler, born June 17, 1976 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster. ... A Swiss system tournament is a commonly used type of tournament in chess and other games where players or teams need to be paired to face each other. ...

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Tactical chess problems - Mark Taimanov - Mikhail Tal - Siegbert Tarrasch - Ksawery Tartakower - Tempo (chess) - George Alan Thomas - Threefold repetition - Time control - Jan Timman - Titan (game) - Veselin Topalov - Torre Attack - Carlos Repetto Torre - Eugenio Torre - Trompowski Attack - Paul Truong - The Turk - Turn-based game - Two Knights Defense - Mikhail Tal Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal (Latvian: Mihails Tāls, Russian: Михаил Нехемьевич Таль) (November 9, 1936 - June 28, 1992), born in Riga, Latvia, was the eighth World Chess Champion. ... Ksawery Tartakower (generally known as Saviely or Savielly in English, from Polish Sawielly meaning little Saul, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887–1956) was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. ... In chess, the threefold repetition rule states that a player can claim a draw if the same position occurs three times, or will occur after their next move, with the same player to move, and with each player having the same set of legal moves each time, including the right... Jan Timman Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a famous Dutch chessplayer who had his greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Titan is an Avalon Hill fantasy board game for two to six players. ... Veselin Topalov Veselin Topalov (Bulgarian: ; born Ruse, Bulgaria, March 15, 1975) is a Bulgarian chess player. ... Carlos Repetto Torre (1904-1978) was a chess Mexico. ... Eugenio Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a chess Grandmaster. ... The Trompowski Attack is a chess opening starting with the moves 1. ... Engraving of the Turk The Turk was a famous hoax which purported to be a chess-playing automaton first constructed and unveiled in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804). ...

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Underpromotion - United States Chess Federation - Wolfgang Uhlmann - Wolfgang Unzicker - In chess, underpromotion is promotion of a pawn that has reached the eighth rank to any piece other than a queen; that is a rook, a bishop or a knight. ... The United States Chess Federation (USCF) is the governing chess organization within the United States and is one of the federations of the FIDE. The USCF was founded in 1939 and grew gradually until 1972, when membership doubled due to interest in Bobby Fischers rise to the World Championship. ... Wolfgang Uhlmann (born March 29, 1935) is a prominent German International Grandmaster of chess. ... Wolfgang Unzicker (b. ...

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Versus de scachis - Victoria of the United Kingdom - Milan Vidmar - Vienna Game - Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa - Milan Vukcevich - Versus de scachis is a Medieval Latin poem about chess. ... Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877 until her death. ... Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818-1899), generally known as von der Lasa, was a leading Prussian chess master. ... Milan Radoje Vukcevich (March 11, 1937 - May 10, 2003) was a scientist and chess problem composer. ...

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Wade defense - Ware Opening - John L. Watson - White knight - Ken Whyld - World Chess Championship - World Chess Solving Championship - World Junior Chess Championship - World records in chess - Marmaduke Wyvill - The Wade Defense or Rat Defense is a highly transpositional opening in chess. ... The Ware Opening is an uncommon chess opening in which White opens with 1. ... John Watson at the 2003 U.S. Chess Championships in Seattle, Washington John L. Watson is an International Master of chess. ... The term White knight can have several meanings. ... Kenneth Whyld (March 6, 1926 - July 11, 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of the Oxford Companion to Chess, the standard single-volume chess reference work in English. ... The 1984 World Chess Championship was between Anatoly Karpov (right) and Garry Kasparov (left). ... The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition). ... Some World records in the game of chess (as played in serious tournaments): Longest game The longest tournament chess game ever to be played under modern time rules was Nikolic - Arsovic, Belgrade 1989, which lasted for 20 hours and 15 minutes with a 269 move draw. ...

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X3D Fritz - XBoard - Xiangqi - Xie Jun - Xu Jun - X3D Fritz is the version of the chess playing program Fritz which in November 2003 played a four game match against world number one Grandmaster Garry Kasparov. ... Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: hsiang-chi; (  listen)), is a two-player Chinese game in a family of strategic board games of which Western chess, Japanese shogi, and the more similar Korean janggi are also members. ... Xu Jun (徐俊) (born September 17, 1962 in Suzhou, Jiangsu) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. ...

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Daniel Yanofsky - Frederick Yates - Ye Jiangchuan - Artur Yusupov - Daniel Abraham Yanofsky (March 25, 1925- March 5, 2000) was Canadas first chess grandmaster and an eight-time national champion. ... Frederick Yates (January 16 1884 – November 10, 1932) was a chess master who won the British Championship six times. ... Ye Jiangchuan (叶江川) (born November 20, 1960) is a leading Chinese chess Grandmaster. ... Artur Mayakovich Yusupov (in German - Jussupow), born February 13, 1960 is a naturalised German International Grandmaster of chess. ...

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Alexander Zaitsev (chess player) - Zhang Zhong - Zhu Chen - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky - Zugzwang - Johannes Zukertort - Zwischenzug - Alexander Zaitsev (1935 - 1971) was a leading Soviet chess player. ... Zhang Zhong (章鍾 born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese chess player. ... Zhu Chen (諸宸) is a chess Grand Master, from China. ... Eugene Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky (1884-1954) was a Russian chess master, writer, teacher and literary critic. ... In chess, zugzwang (German for compulsion to move, IPA: [tsuːk. ...