About the Western board game other chess games or other uses Chess disambiguation pp semi indef Infobox game title Chess image link File ChessSet.jpg 250px alt A selection of black and white chess pieces on a chequered surface. image caption From left to right a white King chess king , a black rook chess rook , a black queen chess queen , a white pawn chess pawn , a black knight chess knight , and a white bishop chess bishop years Around 6th century to present genre Board game players 2 setup time ... from about ten minutes fast chess blitz chess to six hours or longer. random chance None skills Chess tactics Tactics , Chess strategy strategy Chess is a two player board game played on a chessboard ... s most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in chess club clubs , online, by correspondence chess correspondence , and in list of chess terms Tournament tournaments . Each player begins the game with sixteen Chess piece pieces one king chess king , one queen chess queen , two rook chess rook s, two knight chess knight s, two bishop chess bishop s, and eight pawn chess pawn s, each of these types of pieces Movement moving differently. Pieces are used to attack ... it under threat of capture check chess check which cannot be avoided. In addition to checkmate ... material chess material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may result in a draw chess .... The beginning of the game is called the chess opening opening with the Development chess development of pieces . The opening yields to the phase called the middlegame chess middlegame . The last phase is the endgame chess endgame , generally characterized by the disappearance of queens. The first official World Chess Champion , Wilhelm Steinitz , claimed his title in 1886 the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand . In addition to the World Chess Championship World Championship , there are the Women s World Chess Championship Women s World Championship , the World Junior Chess Championship ... more details
A chess player is someone who plays the game of chess , and may also refer to The Chess Players painting The Chess Players painting , painting by Thomas Eakins The Chess Players Shatranj Ke Khilari , film directed by Satyajit Ray Chess Player s Chronicle , 19th century British chess magazine See also List of chess players disamb ... more details
Wiktionarypar chess TOCright Chess is a two player board game sometimes called international chess . Chess or CHESS may also refer to Board games Chess variant s, including Chaturanga Indian chess Janggi , or Korean chess Makruk , or Thai chess Shatranj , or Persian chess Shogi , sometimes called Japanese chess Sittuyin , or Burmese chess Xiangqi , or Chinese chess 3D Chess Business chess Computer games GNU Chess , the GNU free software chess program Chess Titans , a computer game of chess included in Windows Vista Chess application , a chess computer game for Mac OS X Chess Northwestern University , a pioneering chess program from the 1970s Art Chess poem Chess poem , a poem by Jan Kochanowski, written c. 1565 Chess musical Chess musical , a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Bj rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson Chess Records , a record label Chess 2006 film Chess 2006 film , a 2006 Malayalam film Chess , the working title of the 2008 film Who Do You Love? 2008 film Who Do You Love? Chess Warmwater, a character in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie Chess One Piece , a fictional ... supported by the National Science Foundation Products and services CHESS magazine , published monthly in the UK Chess Communication , a Norwegian mobile virtual network operator Other Chess, a floorboard of a pontoon bridge Chess, a type of brome grass often considered a weed Chess pie CHESS model checker River Chess , a river in Buckinghamshire in England Chess is the name of a villain in the 2011 TV series The Cape 2011 TV series The Cape . See also Outline of chessChess piece disambiguation Chess player disambiguation Chess in early literature Timeline of chess Chinese chess disambiguation History of chess disambig da Skak flertydig de Chess fr Chess it Chess disambigua lv ahs noz mju atdal ana nl Schaken doorverwijspagina ja pl Szachy ujednoznacznienie pt Chess desambigua o ru Chess th zh ... more details
Chess Monthly may refer to The Chess Monthly The Chess Monthly 1857 1861 , New York, edited by Daniel Willard Fiske & Paul Morphy this is often referred to as American Chess Monthly despite there being a periodical of that name The Chess Monthly 1879 1896 , London, edited by Leopold Hoffer & Johannes Zukertort American Chess Monthly March 1892 Sept Oct 1893 , Boston, edited by George H. Walcott, jr. Brentano s Chess Monthly May 1881 June Sept. 1882 , New York, Allen et al. Maxwell Macmillan Chess Monthly 1991 , continues Pergamon Chess and CHESS magazine Chess Monthly 1992 , Wheatley, England, ISSN 0964 6221 , continues Maxwell Macmillan Chess Monthly see below disambig ... more details
italic title Image chessmag201105.jpg right thumb 200px May 2011 issue Image Chessmag1990.JPG right thumb 200px April 1990 issue depicting John Nunn on the cover CHESS magazine ISSN 0964 6221 , also called CHESS and previously called CHESS Monthly , is a chess magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom UK by Chess and Bridge Limited. CHESS was founded by Baruch Harold Wood in 1935 in Sutton Coldfield . Wood edited it until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press and changed its name to Pergamon Chess. It became Macmillan Chess in 1989 and Maxwell Macmillan Chess Monthly in 1991. Staff John Saunders chess player John Saunders Editor International Master IM Malcolm Pein Executive Editor Regular contributors include Grandmaster chess Grandmaster GM Jacob Aagaard , GM Daniel J. King Danny King , IM Andrew Greet, IM Richard Palliser , IM Yochanan Afek , Amatzia Avni, Chris Ravilious and Gareth Williams. External links wikisource http www.chess.co.uk CHESS Magazine chess DEFAULTSORT Chess Category Chess periodicals Category Chess in the United Kingdom Category British magazines Category Publications established in 1935 Category Monthly magazines Category 1935 in chess chess stub hobby mag stub UK mag stub ca CHESS magazine ru ... more details
refimprove date January 2011 Infobox game subject name Chess Attack image link File Chessattack with pieces.jpg 250px image caption Chess Attack start position players 2 setup time About 1 minute playing time 10 seconds to 10 minutes. skills Chess tactics Tactics , Chess strategy strategy random chance None Chess Attack is a Chess Variant chess variant played on a rectangular Chessboard board of six rows called rank chess ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 6 and five columns called file chess files , denoted with letters a to e of squares. It can be seen as a chess game exclusively devoted to endplay. Setup and rules Each player starts with one king chess king , one queen chess queen , one rook chess rook , one bishop chess bishop of alternate colors , one knight chess knight and five pawn chess pawns . Apart from the initial setup, the game follows all conventional Rules of chesschess rules. History and use File Alexandra chessattack.jpg thumb Grandmaster chess Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk playing a game of Chess Attack. The game was invented by the Norwegian game designer Werner Kling in 2008, both as a tool to introduce a simplified chess variant to younger players and for experienced players to hone chess endgame endgame skills. It is being used as a training tool by players such as Magnus Carlsen , Simen Agdestein and Alexandra Kosteniuk . In other media Chess Attack is also available for mobile phones ref http yes games.com Chess Attack for mobile phones ref and as a Facebook game. ref http www.facebook.com chessattack Facebook homepage ref See also Minichess References reflist External links http chessattack.com Chess Attack homepage Category Chess variants no Chess Attack ... more details
Chess Assistant is a commercial database program produced by Convekta, Ltd. The company started in Russia, but also has offices in England and the United States. The software is a management tool for organising chess information databases of millions of games , opening training, game analysis, playing against the computer, and viewing electronic texts. It is the major commercial competitor to ChessBase . External links http chessok.com Convekta Home PDFlink http www.jovanpetronic.com download chessreviews Convekta 20Chess 20Assistant 209 20Professional 20package 20review 20IM.FST. 20Jovan 20Petronic.pdf Chess Assistant 9 Professional 626 Kibibyte KiB application pdf, 641870 bytes product review by Jovan Petronic Category Chess databases Category Chess software chess stub de Chess Assistant es Chess Assistant fr Chess Assistant nl Chess Assistant ... more details
one source date November 2011 A chess puzzle is a puzzle in which knowledge of the chess piece pieces and rules of chess rules of chess is used to solve logically a chess related problem. The longstanding popularity of chess has paved the way for a rich tradition of such chess related puzzles and composed problems, which assume a familiarity with the pieces and rules of chess, but can set different objectives than a standard game. Some chess puzzles may derive from studies which were intended to help ... art. Examples of a chess puzzle include deducing the last move played, the location of a missing ... to normal chess, such as helping or even compelling the opponent to checkmate one s own king. Chess problems main Chess problem Whereas the term chess puzzle refers broadly to any puzzle involving aspects of chess, a chess problem is an orthodox puzzle see below in which one must play and win or draw chess draw a game, starting with a certain composition of pieces on the chess board, and playing within the standard rules of chess. Orthodox chess problems involve positions that can arise ... common orthodox chess puzzle takes the form of checkmate in n moves. The puzzle positions are seldom ... to find the usually unique move which forces checkmate as rapidly as possible. Heterodox chess problems involve conditions that are impossible with normal play, such as multiple kings or chess variant s, while Fairy chess fairy chess problems employ pieces not used in orthodox chess, such as the amazon a piece combining the powers of the queen chess queen and the knight chess knight . Tactical puzzles Chess puzzles can also be regular positions from a game with normal rules , usually meant as training positions, Chess tactics tactical or positional, from all phases of the game openings, middlegame ... to a complex attack on the opponent s king. Solving tactical chess puzzles is a very common chess teaching technique. Although it is unlikely that the same position will occur in a game the student ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Notability date September 2008 Context date September 2008 Ikarus was the Computer Speed Chess Champion in 2006 . It did so by defeating the four time champion Shredder chess Shredder in the World Computer Speed Chess Championship which took place on May 29, 2006 in Turin . DEFAULTSORT Ikarus Chess Category Chess engines Chess stub nl Ikarus computerschaak ... more details
Chess diagram 8x10 tright 8 rd nd bd qd kd cd ad bd nd rd 7 pd pd pd pd pd pd pd pd pd pd 6 5 4 3 2 pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl 1 rl nl bl ql kl cl al bl nl rl a b c d e f g h i j Embassy chess , starting position Embassy chess is a chess variant created in 2005 by Kevin Hill. It borrows the opening setup from Grand chess by Christian Freeling and adapts it to the 10x8 board. Embassy chess is a free, non commercial Capablanca random chess variant that is played on a 10x8 board with two additional pawns per side and two fairy chess piece s the marshall and the cardinal . ref http brainking.com en GameRules?tp 41 Embassy chess rules by Filip Rachunek. ref Image Chess cll44.png Marshall 30px The Fairy chess piece marshall moves as both a rook chess rook and a knight chess knight . Image Chess all44.png Cardinal 30px The Fairy chess piece cardinal moves as both a bishop chess bishop and a knight chess knight . The castling in this chess variant is done by king moving 3 spaces in rook direction, see diagram at right. All other rules, like en passant are the same as in chess . Chess diagram 8x10 tright 8 kd rd 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 rl kl a b c d e f g h i j Castling in Embassy chess. White castled king side, black queen side. Computer implementations Embassy chess is supported by at least three multi variant programs available in the chess variant world. It was selected as one out of seven ... to play Embassy chess in Zillions of Games using a third party rules file, such as http www.chessvariants.org index zillions.php?itemid zLargeChess this one . See also Capablanca random chess Capablanca Random Chess Capablanca chess Capablanca Chess SMIRF ChessV Zillions of Games Grand chess Grand Chess Gothic Chess References reflist External links http play.chessvariants.org pbm play.php?game 3DEmbassy Chess 26settings 3Ddefault Game Courier Embassy Chess http samiam.org chessv ChessV http www.brainking.com BrainKing a server where you can play Embassy Chess. http www.symmetryperfect.com ... more details
About the chess variant the chess manoeuvre Fortress chess Image Russisches festungsschach.PNG thumb 350px right Fortress Chess Fortress chess or Russian fortress chess is a four player chess variant played in Russia in 18th and 19th centuries. The board contains 192 squares including the fortresses at its corners. The fortresses contain 16 squares and various pieces are placed inside. See also Four handed chess Forchess jochess A 16 by 8 board is used, with on one end a 4 by 4 projection in the center, this is the fortress. The side of the fortress has a king, queen, advisers, pike men and musketeers. Sources http www.chessvariants.com historic.dir fortress.html http www.quadibloc.com chess ch0206.htm DEFAULTSORT Fortress Chess Category Chess variants Category Chess in Russia Category 18th century in chess Category Russian inventions de Russisches Festungsschach fr checs forteresse ... more details
The Game of Chess is a book about chess written by Siegbert Tarrasch . It was published in 1987 by Courier Dover Publications. It has 423 pages and its ISBN number is 048625447X. DEFAULTSORT Game Of Chess Category 1987 books Category Chess books Nonfiction book stub de Das Schachspiel ... more details
Primary sources date January 2008 File Chess Life.jpg right thumb Chess Life , September 2010, after the return to the shorter title Chess Life is a monthly chess magazine published in the United States . The official publication of the United States Chess Federation USCF , it reaches more than a quarter of a million readers every month. A subscription to Chess Life is one of the benefits of Full Adult, Youth, or Life as of 2011 membership in the USCF. USCF members under age 13 receive Chess Life ... upcoming chess tournaments. From late 1969 to 1980 it was called Chess Life & Review . History File Chess Life Feb 1968.jpg right thumb Chess Life , February 1968, cover before the merger with Chess Review File Chess Life & Review.gif right thumb Chess Life & Review , January 1976, cover after the merger with Chess Review The United States Chess Federation was incorporated on December 27, 1939. In the early .... In 1946, publication of Chess Life started as a bi weekly newspaper, usually eight or twelve pages long. In 1961, Frank Brady writer Frank Brady converted Chess Life to a slick covered magazine. In 1969, Chess Life merged with Chess Review , the other leading U.S. chess magazine. The magazine was published under the title Chess Life & Review starting with the November 1969 issue until 1980 when it returned to the name Chess Life . Editors 05 1946 12 1957 Montgomery Major 01 1958 12 1960 ... 1962 issue, not sure when he started 06 1966 11 1966 Ed Edmondson chess official Ed Edmondson and Bill Goichberg 12 1966 Burt Hochberg and Ed Edmondson chess official Ed Edmondson 01 1967 10 1979 ... Gerald Dullea 03 2006 present Daniel Lucas Contributors Some of the notable chess authors and players to write for Chess Life Lev Alburt Back to Basics Leonard Barden 1960s Pal Benko In the Arena 1972 1981 , Endgame Lab 1981 , and chess problem column Benko s Bafflers David L. Brown Key Krackers Robert Byrne chess player Robert Byrne John W. Collins 1950s and 1960s Games by USCF Members column ... more details
Chess Scotland is the Sport governing body governing body for chess in Scotland . It was formed in 2001 with the merger of the Scottish Chess Association and the Scottish Junior Chess Association . It is one of the oldest national chess associations in the world. As the national organisation for chess, Chess Scotland is the affiliate to the International Chess Federation FIDE and appoints the Scottish ... represent Scotland at the biennial Chess Olympiad . Objective and functions Its principal objective is to foster and promote the game of chess throughout Scotland among players of all ages . Its principal functions are to represent the interests of Scottish chess at FIDE and elsewhere , to select individuals and teams to represent Scotland at international chess events, to hold national and international chess tournaments in Scotland to promote the game of chess in Scotland to train and appoint officials to operate a national grading system Chess Scotland s functions are performed by unpaid ... Many people can play chess and a significant proportion of these have an active interest in the game e.g., internet chess, parents guardians of junior players, etc. . The number of players currently known ... a national rating grade for their standard of play. Chess Scotland therefore serves a very wide constituency from school children to International Grandmasters. Organisation The affairs of Chess ... General Meeting of Chess Scotland. Chess events are supervised by certified arbiters who must undergo written and practical competency tests administered by Chess Scotland. Chess Scotland also .... Online Apart from the publicity surrounding its events, Chess Scotland s activities are communicated ... forum promotes discussion of chess related topics of current interest. In addition, Chess Scotland publishes a magazine which appears six times a year. Rating system The Chess Scotland on line ... to Chess Scotland. Application to Chess Scotland for the recognition of an event or player for rating ... more details
year nav topic 2005 chess Events in chess in 2005 Deaths January 2 Arnold Denker 1914 2005 , 90, American Grandmaster chess Grandmaster . January 3 Laszlo Vadasz 1948 2005 , 56, Hungarian Grandmaster chess Grandmaster . March 14 Simon Webb chess player Simon Webb 1949 2005 , 55, British International Master , International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster , and chess writer. April 9 Dragoljub Mini 1937 2005 , 68, Yugoslavian Croation Grandmaster chess Grandmaster . April 22 Leonid Shamkovich 1923 2005 , 81, Russian American Grandmaster. June 1 Vladimir Savon 1940 2005 , 64, Soviet Ukrainian Grandmaster, USSR Chess Championship USSR Champion 1971. November 3 Hrvoje Bartolovi 1932 2005 , 73, Croatian Grandmaster of Chess Composition and International Judge of Chess Compositions . November 12 Dragutin Sahovic 1940 2005 , 65, Serbian Grandmaster. ref http www.chesscenter.com twic twic576.html 13 The Week in Chess 576 Bot generated title ref November 17 Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov 1947 2005 , 58, Russian Canadian Grandmaster. December 15 Enrico Paoli 1908 2005 , 97, Italian Grandmaster, established the Reggio Emilia chess tournament . December Bela Berger 1931 2005 , 74, Hungary Australia. References references chess Category 2005 in chess fr 2005 aux checs mk 2005 ... more details
Chess diagram 9x9 tright 9 rd nd bd qd kd ad bd nd rd 8 pd pd pd pd pd pd pd pd pd 7 6 5 4 3 2 pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl 1 rl nl bl al kl ql bl nl rl a b c d e f g h i Modern chess . Prime Minister is placed to the left of the King. otheruses Modern chess disambiguation distinguish My Great Predecessors Modern Chess Modern chess is a chess variant played on a 9x9 board. The game was invented by Gabriel Vicente Maura in 1968. Besides the usual set of chess piece s, each player has an additional piece with a corresponding pawn Image Chess all44.png Prime Minister 30px a Fairy chess piece Prime Minister that moves as both a bishop chess bishop and a knight chess knight . Otherwise, the standard rules of chess still apply, with the objective being to checkmate the opponent s king. The king piece must be moved out of check when it is placed in check. If escape is not possible, the game is lost. A player still may resign at any point in the game, and en passant is legal. External links http www.chessvariants.com large.dir modern.html Modern chess by Hans Bodlaender Category Chess variants Category 1968 in chess Category 1968 introductions chess stub ... more details
Fairy chess comprises chess problem s that differ from classical also called orthodox chess problems in that they are not direct mate s. The term was introduced before the First World War. While selfmate dates from the Middle Age, helpmate was invented by Max Lange in the late 19th century. Thomas Rayner Dawson Thomas Dawson 1889 1951 , pioneer of fairy chess, invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He was also problem editor of The Fairy Chess Review 1930 1951 . Prichard in Encyclopedia of Chess Variants ISBN 0 9524142 0 1 1994 acknowledges that the term is sometimes used for games although ... or theme impossible in orthochess . Types of fairy chess problems Types of fairy chess problems include ... Retrograde analysis retroanalytical problems including shortest proof game s and retractor chess retractors . Finally various construction tasks on chess board and mathematical problems using chess objects are considered to be chess problems as well. New chess pieces Conventional chess piece s are generalized in many ways Grasshopper chess piece grasshopper , Nightrider chess nightrider , Chinese pieces, etc. . See main article Fairy chess piece s. New conditions They encompass all changes ... of them were invented some of them became established circe chess , madrasi chess , Andernach chess , monochromatic chess , patrol chess , Einstein chess and many others. Different boards One can vary ... chess cylinder vertical and horizontal , anchor ring or torus and others. All problems in the FIDE ... studies, selfmates, helpmates, fairy chess and retro and Mathematical chess problem mathematical problems . See also Chess variants Fairy chess piece External links http www.bcps.knightsfield.co.uk fairies.html Fairy chess by Michael McDowell http www.janko.at Retros Glossary index.htm Fairy chess glossary by Otto Janko. http github.com jankeromnes MetaChess MetaChess, an open source chess program with atomic and fairy chess rules featuring powerful artificial intelligence Category Fairy chess ... more details
File City Chess Elista Kalmykia.jpg 300px right thumb The main building of the City Chess complex Chess City also referred to as City Chess is a large complex devoted to chess and chess competitions located ..., four story domed City Chess Hall surrounded by an Olympic Village Olympic style village of Californian ... and a museum of Kalmyk Buddhist art . The complex features sculptures and artwork devoted to chess ... and Yevgeni Petrov, who proposed a creation of world chess capital. The complex has been used to host visiting dignitaries like the Dalai Lama . Completed in 1998, the idea and development of Chess City ... since 1993 and been president of FIDE , the international governing body of chess, since 1995. A fanatical chess enthusiast, ref name autogenerated1 http www.spiegel.de international spiegel 0,1518,442158,00.html The Dictator and His Hobby Kalmykian Leader Makes Farce of Chess Championships ... for the 33rd Chess Olympiad . Chess City has hosted three major FIDE tournaments the XXXIII Chess Olympiad in 1998 , the 2004 Women s World Chess Championship , and the FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 2006 World Chess Championship . Future plans for Chess City include a water sport complex, skiing ... Where Chess Is King and the People Are the Pawns , The New York Times , June 20, 2004, Accessed May 17, 2006. ref As a result, the construction of the opulent Chess City was greatly criticized for spending large sums of money on a tourist resort. Chess tournament winners are sometimes rewarded ... for Chess City, like the water sports complex, under scrutiny. ref name NYT062004 References ... Where Chess Is King and the People Are the Pawns , The New York Times , June 20, 2004, Accessed May 17, 2006 . Julia Emm, http www.chessfidelity.com elections.php?txt id 91 Chess Paradise , Chess ... Photo Gallery of Chess City from International Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk s website Coord 46.296667 44.297500 display title Category Chess places Category Chess in Russia Category ... more details
Image Chess young and old.jpg thumb right 250px Young and old playing in a chess club A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess . Chess clubs provide for both informal games and timed games, often as part of an internal competition or in a Sports league league . Organisation Clubs are usually attached to regional chess associations, which are in turn members of their national federation which will be associated with FIDE , the world governing body of chess. Club facilities Chess clubs typically provide Informal, friendly , games Club and inter club competitions Opportunities to play in one or more leagues organised on a geographical basis A personal Elo rating system rating system where the results of inter club games are rated to enable players to judge their standing and progress Coaching by a more knowledgeable chess player and lectures tuition evenings A library of chess books References http www.englishchess.org.uk wp content uploads 2009 10 school chessclub leaflet.pdf The School Chess Club , English Chess Federation , accessed 18 November 2009 . External links Please do not list chess clubs either in a See also or in External links . If we have one we should have to have them all and that is what Category Chess clubs is for. http www.englishchess.org.uk ?page id 17 cl Directory of English Chess Clubs , English Chess Federation http main.uschess.org index.php?option com wrapper&Itemid 198 Directory of US Chess Clubs , United States Chess Federation Category Chess clubs Chess club de Schachverein es Club de ajedrez it Circolo di scacchi nl Schaakclub simple Chess club sv Schackklubb ... more details
File Black Wildebeest 2.jpg thumb 240px A wildebeest &mdash the compound Fairy chess piece Leapers leaper in Wildebeest Chess Wildebeest Chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987 ... the standard chess pieces , each side has one wildebeest and two camels . The intent of the inventor is to balance, in comparison to chess, the number of riders pieces that move along open lines with the number of leapers pieces that jump . So for each side, two Knight chess knights , two camels, and one wildebeest balance two Rook chess rooks , two Bishop chess bishops , and one Queen chess queen . The game was played regularly in the now defunct Correspondence chess correspondence game club ... note Game rules File My Wildebeest init config graphic.png thumb 370px right Wildebeest Chess starting position for this diagram wildebeests are represented by upside down Queen chess queens , and camels by upside down Knight chess knights big Moves of the wildebeest and camel big The camel in Wildebeest Chess moves and captures the same as the Fairy chess piece Leapers camel fairy chess piece namely, like an elongated chess knight jumping over any intervening pieces in a 2 4 rectangular pattern ... a camel or a chess Knight chess knight . big Other special rules big Play, moves, and captures are the same as in standard Rules of chesschess , except for these special game rules On the first move ... i.e., white pawns on the third Rank chess rank , or black pawns on the eighth rank can advance one ... , if an enemy pawn on an adjacent file could have captured the pawn on a square the pawn passed. As in chess ... promote to only a queen, or a wildebeest. All chess castling rules apply, with the only difference ... move. As in chess, the castling rook ends on the opposite side of the king on the square ... reflist group note Citations reflist References cite book author David Pritchard chess writer Pritchard, D. B. title The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants publisher Games & Puzzles Publications year 1994 ... more details
Infobox software name GNU Chess logo screenshot Image XBoard GNUChess.png 250px GNU Chess 6.0.0 on XBoard 4.5.1 caption GNU Chess 6.0.0 on XBoard 4.5.1 developer The GNU Chess Team latest release version ... OS X genre Computer chess license GNU General Public License Version 3 GPL v3 or later website http www.gnu.org software chess GNU Chess GNU Chess is a computer program which plays a full game of chess against a human or other computer program. The goal of GNU Chess is to serve as a basis for research. It has been used in numerous research contexts. GNU Chess is free software , licensed under the terms ... version, and is maintained by collaborating developers. It s one of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix based computers and one of the earliest available with full source code. GNU Chess has been ported to many other platforms. Features On basic, current computer chess architecture, GNU Chess ... used in conjunction with a GUI program such as XBoard . Initial versions of XBoard s Chess Engine Communication Protocol were based on GNU Chess s command line interface. Version 6 also supports the Universal Chess Interface UCI . History The first version of GNU Chess was written by Stuart Cracraft ... of programmers have enhanced and expanded GNU Chess. In 2011, GNU Chess underwent transition to version 6, which is based on Letouzey s Fruit 2.1 chess engine , a strong and well debugged searcher with heavy use of invariant assertions, and very few bugs. Some GNU Chess enthusiasts still maintain the 5.07 code base, ref http alpha.uhasselt.be Research Algebra Toga gnuchess release 5.07 GNU Chess ... of GNU Chess 5 is about 350 Elo stronger than the original FSF version. It is still weaker than GNU Chess 6 however. See also Portal Free software XBoard GNU Go References Reflist External links http www.gnu.org software chess http chess.delorie.com http wifight.com Play against gnuchess on PalmOS devices. GNU DEFAULTSORT Gnu Chess Category 1984 software Category Chess engines Category GNU Project ... more details
Dark chess is a chess variant with incomplete information, similar to Kriegspiel chess Kriegspiel . It was invented ..., only their own pieces including pawns , and squares where these pieces could move. Chess diagram tright ... xx pl 2 pl pl ql 1 kl rl rl a b c d e f g h A game of Dark chess in progress squares indicated by can not be seen by the white player. Rules The goal of this chess variant is not to checkmate the king ... passant capture is allowed, even if you do not see that it is possible. Unlike standard chess, castling is allowed even out of check, into check and through the positions attacked by opponent pieces. This chess variant is best played on one of the online chess servers. For playing over the board, three chess sets and a referee are needed, just as in Kriegspiel chess Kriegspiel . There are some minor ... also provides some more variations of dark chess Dark chess checkmate you are notified that your ... as in standard chess to checkmate the king. Dark crazyhouse combination of crazyhouse and dark chess. Dark suicide combination of Antichess suicide and dark chess. Sun Tzu chess combination of Double Fischer Random Chess like Chess960 , but with different positions for white and black , crazyhouse and dark chess. You can drop pieces you have in any possible square on the board like crazyhouse . This chess variant was invented in 2005 by John Kipling Lewis. Lao Tzu chess like Sun Tzu, but you can ... basic Dark chess rules are universal with respect to its parent classical variant, any other 2 player chess variant like Omega Chess , Seirawan chess or others may be played in dark , for example Dark Omega Chess . ref http gamesbyemail.com Games OmegaChess Dark Omega Chess at GamesByEmail.com ref Gameplay Dark chess has a strong strategic flavor. Planning and strategy, as well as some psychological reasoning, are very important tactics and move searching are not. In this chess variant a king ... reflist External links http docs.google.com View?docid df72cxcs 20gj8jfvdm Dark Chess Strategy ... more details
Gladiator chess is a chess tournament style. It was introduced in the 2006 Danish Chess Championship s. In gladiator chess no draws are accepted. In case the game ends in a draw, it is played again with reversed colors and shorter time limits. Specifically the first game is played so that each player has 100 minutes for 40 moves and then 30 minutes, always adding 30 seconds per move. In case of a draw, the time settings are changed to 25 minutes, adding 10 seconds per move. In case of another draw, the players will continue to play blitz chess , 10 minutes per player, adding 5 seconds per move. External links http www.chesscenter.com twic twic596.html 5 The Week in Chess 596 10 April 2006 by Mark Crowther 5 Danish Championship http www.chessninja.com cgi bin mt comments.cgi?entry id 857 The Daily Dirt Chess Blog Comment on National Championship Beat chess tournament stub Category Chess tournament systems Category 2006 in chess ca Sistema Gladiador ... more details
Infobox Website name The Week in Chess logo screenshot caption url http www.chesscenter.com twic twic.html commercial type Chess news language English registration owner Mark Crowther author Mark Crowther launch date 1994 current status revenue The Week in Chess often abbreviated to TWIC is one of the first, if not the first, Internet based chess news services. TWIC has been edited by Mark Crowther since its inception in 1994. It began as a weekly Usenet posting, with TWIC 1 being posted to Usenet group rec.games.chess on 17 September 1994. ref http groups.google.com.au group rec.games.chess browse thread thread 1ac19b7ed805af60 615ecb887a1f1c67?lnk st&q &rnum 34&hl en 615ecb887a1f1c67 The Week in Chess 1 , Usenet newsgroup rec.games.chess, September 19, 1994 ref Later it moved to Crowther s personal web site, and later still to its current location at chesscenter.com. ref http web.archive.org web 20070824093415 http chess.about.com library weekly aa04f05.htm TWIC 500 a history of TWIC, formerly at about.com June 2004 , now at Internet Archive ref It contains both chess news, and all the game scores from major events. TWIC quickly became popular with professional chess players, because it allowed them to quickly get results and game scores, where previously they had relied on print publications. ref http www.chess.co.uk twic twic200.html 12 The Week In Chess 200. Mark Crowther s child ... a popular site for up to date chess news. ref For instance, it is referenced in the http gambit.blogs.nytimes.com 2008 09 01 ivanchuk wins and wins again next stop bilbao The New York Times Chess Blog , August 31, 2008 ref References reflist DEFAULTSORT Week in Chess Category Chess periodicals Category Chess websites Category Online magazines Category 1994 in chess Category Publications established in 1994 ca The Week in Chess de The Week in Chess fr The Week in Chess it The Week in Chess pl The Week in Chess ... more details
year nav topic 2003 chess Events in chess in 2003 Deaths February 4 Jaroslav ajtar 1921 2003 , 81, Czech Grandmaster chess Grandmaster and FIDE vice chairman. May 10 Milan Vukcevich 1937 2003 , 66, Yugoslav American International Master , Grandmaster of Chess Composition, and scientist. May 11 Lud k Pachman 1924 2003 , 78, Czech Grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist. May 16 Bogdan liwa 1922 2003 , 81, Polish Grandmaster. June 24 Russ Chauvenet 1920 2003 , 83, American International Master, chess writer, U.S. deaf champion. July 11 Ken Whyld 1926 2003 , 77, British chess writer and researcher. August 31 P ter Sz kely 1955 2003 , 48, Hungarian Grandmaster. October 31 Antonio Medina 1919 2003 , 84, International Master, many time Spanish Chess Championship Spanish Champion . December 20 Denis Barry 1929 2003 , 74, American chess organizer and President of the United States Chess Federation USCF . December 28 Frank Parr 1918 2003 , 85, English chess player. chess Category 2003 in chess fr 2003 aux checs mk 2003 ... more details
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