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Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made up of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares in each row and column. Each...

Chess Olympiads are chess events open to all national teams. They have been run since 1927 by the world chess organisation, FIDE. Since 1950, they have...

Chess and computers have been connected since the earliest days of the computer. In the 19th century Charles Babbage had thought of the idea,p87 and in...

A chess club is a place where people come to play chess. Sometimes, chess clubs host chess tournaments. Many chess clubs are open to the public, while...

A Master in chess is a player who is awarded a master title by the world chess organisation FIDE, or by a national chess organisation. The term was used...

List of chess terms: in alphabetical order. When the game is paused temporarily. Less common today, as most games are played to a finish. If a game is...

Bughouse chess (also known as transfer chess or exchanged chess) is a version of the game chess. It is played by four people in two teams. Each team has...

Chess openings are listed and classified according to their first few moves. There are interesting statistics on the frequency of chess openings from...

World Chess Champions are players who have won a match or tournament for the World Championship at chess. Both men and women can become champion, but no...

Chess notation is a method for writing down chess moves: after a player makes a move, both players write it down. This is compulsory in all organized...

This is a list of chess grandmasters rated 2700+, plus other players of the highest status. There are at present over 1900 chess grandmasters, and the...

The history of chess goes back almost 1500 years. The game originated in northern India in the 6th century AD and spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered...

A chess tournament is a competition between chess players. It can take one of these forms: A knock-out tournament. Not a popular choice in chess events...

The United States Chess Federation (USCF) is the national chess federation in the United States. It is the U.S. member of FIDE. It was established in...

The queen is a chess piece that stands next to the king at the start of a game.The queen starts on the d1 square for white and the d8 square for black...

of chess symbols. This means that chess symbols can be encoded as text instead of images. Algebraic notation (text that shows where to move a chess piece)...

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on his performance against other players. They are used by...

The English Chess Federation (ECF) is the governing chess organisation in England and is affiliated to FIDE. The ECF was formed in 2004, and took charge...

The endgame in chess (or end game or ending) is the part of the game when there are few pieces left on the board. Alternatively, endgames begin when the...

Mittens is a type of bot made for chess, called a chess engine. It has a low Elo rating of 1, while still being remarkably strong. This discrepancy is...

The Azerbaijan Chess Federation (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Şahmat Federasiyası, AŞF) is the national chess organization in Azerbaijan. It is a member of...

Japanese chess. It is a 2-player board game in the same family as International chess, and Chinese Xiangqi. Shogi is the most popular of a family of chess variants...

Chess boxing is a mixed sport which puts together the sport of boxing with games of chess in every other round. Chess boxing fights have been done since...

is a piece in the board game of chess. It gets its name from its name in the old Indo-Persian game (see History of chess). Each player starts the game with...

valuable chess piece in a game of chess. It can move left, right, up, down or diagonally. It can only move one square at a time. When recording chess games...

Check is a term in chess when a player's king is attacked. If the king is in check, the player must find a way to stop the threat; he can not just ignore...

A knight is a chess piece. It is represented by a horse's head and neck. Each player starts the game with two knights. It moves in an L pattern, two squares...

A bishop (♗) is a piece in the board game of chess. Each player starts the game with two bishops. At the start of a game, one bishop is placed in between...

Chess Records was an American record label from Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess. The label was important for blues...

chess, the players each start with 16 chess pieces. The way that the pieces move are defined by both tradition and by FIDE, the international chess federation...

Chess is one of the most popular sports in Azerbaijan, where it is organized by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). On May 5, 2009 Azerbaijani president...

Fortress chess (also called Russian Four-Handed chess) is a chess variant (a kind of chess with different rules) for four players. The board has 192 squares...

known as Chinese chess. Though derived from the original Indian Chaturanga, Chinese chess is quite different from modern international chess. The board is...

The pawn (♙♟) is the weakest piece in the game of chess. They represent infantry. Each player starts the game with eight pawns, one on each square of...

Dexter's Laboratory: Chess Challenge is a board game-style video game developed by Virtucraft and published by BAM! Entertainment for the Game Boy Advance...

Chess.com is an internet chess server, where people can go and play chess online. The site is the largest online chess platform in the world. The site...

The Gift of Chess is a global initiative dedicated to promoting the game of chess as a tool for education, personal development, and social change. The...

The Azerbaijani Chess Championship is usually held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is organised by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). The first championship...

This is a complete list of Azerbaijani chess title-holders as of October 2019. Fərid Abbasov Cəmil Ağamalıyev Cahangir Ağarəhimov Rəşad Babayev Rüfət...

Blitz chess is a variant of speed chess characterized by fast time controls, in which each player is allotted 10 minutes or less for all moves. The FIDE...

Sargon (also SARGON) is a chess program. It was created by the American developers Dan and Kathe Spracklen in the late 1970's and 1980's. The program...

A chess variant is a game that is made similar to chess. Most variants are slightly different from chess because they need to make some rules for the game...

Wii Chess is a video game for the Wii console. It was made by Nintendo. The game was released on January 18, 2008 in Europe. Under the name Tsuushin Taikyoku:...

Pirc Defence: 1.e4 d6 Prophylaxis is a term in chess, as well as being a general idea. It was introduced by the grandmaster Aaron Nimzovich in his book...

The International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) is an organization for blind and visually impaired chess players. The International Braille Chess Association originated...

ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software. It also has a chess news website, and uses a server for online chess. Set up in 1998, it...

William Lewis (1787–1870) was an English chess player and author. He is best known for the Lewis Countergambit and for being the first player ever to...

The Blind Chess Olympiad is a world-wide chess competition. It is for the blind. Teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event takes...

The French Chess Federation (French : Fédération Française des Echecs – FFE) is the national organization for chess in France. The president is Diego Salazar...

July 1884), called "the pride and sorrow of chess", was an American chess master. He was the greatest chess player of his era and an unofficial world champion...

The French Chess Championship is the annual national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923 after the formation of the Fédération...

Xinghua, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China) is a female Chinese chess prodigy. She was the Women's World Chess Champion 2010–2012. She was the youngest women ever...

The Manhattan Chess Club is the second-oldest chess club in the United States (after the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco). The club was...

American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. As a teenager, Fischer became well-known worldwide because of his skill at chess. He won...

Alexander Alekhine (31 October 1892 – 24 March 1946) was the fourth World Chess Champion, and the only one to die holding the title.p7 By the age of twenty-two...

Three-player chess (sometimes known as three-man chess), is a chess variant that is made for three people to play. Some boards are made in hexagon, triangle...

Chess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy movie directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. It stars José Raúl...

Russian chess grandmaster and political activist. He was born with the name Garry Weinstein, and is partly of Jewish descent. He was the World Chess Champion...

21, 1967) is a Chinese chess player. He is also China's Deputy National Team Manager. He competed at the World Men's Team Chess Championship in 1993. He...

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, or FIDE is the world chess organisation. All national federations are members. It decides...

Russian grandmaster and three-time World Chess Champion. He was an electrical engineer, one of the few chess masters who achieved distinction in another...

December 1868 – 11 January 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years. In his prime Lasker...

Howard Staunton (1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master. He was the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851.p391 This is based on his 1843...

Carlsen (born Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, 30 November 1990) was the World Chess Champion, from years 2013 to 2023. He became World Champion on 22 November...

June 1975, is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...

– 16 March 1935) was a Jewish Latvian-born Danish chess grandmaster, and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns...

Janggi (also known as Korean chess), is a board game from Korea. Janggi is similar to Xiangqi (Chinese chess), but some pieces in Janggi have different...

usually called just the Sicilian, is a chess opening, which starts with these moves: 1. e4 c5 In competitive chess, it is by far the most frequently played...

Cuba, 19 November 1888 – New York, 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927. Capablanca was a child prodigy...

1900) was an Austrian chess grandmaster who emigrated first to London, then to the USA. He was the first undisputed World Chess Champion and held it from...

Zugzwang is a chess term. It means a situation where any move by a player will weaken the player's position. The fact that the player is compelled to...

Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chess player in history,p312 yet she has never played in the Women's World Chess Championship...

chess player. Menchik was the first women's world chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters...

The King's Gambit is a chess opening which starts with these moves: 1.e4 e5 2.f4 and now 2...exf4 is the King's Gambit accepted, and 3.Nf3 the most common...

2010) was a Russian chess grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.p376 Smyslov was a candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight...

Munich, 17 February 1934) was a German doctor, and one of the strongest chess grandmasters of the day. Tarrasch was born in Breslau, in Prussian Silesia...

musicians who served at the French court. He became the author of a book on chess which influenced players for many years.p303p15 His family name had once...

Shakhriyar Mamadyarov (born 12 April 1985 in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan), is a chess grandmaster. On the January 2008 FIDE rating list he reached number six...

is a Hungarian-American chess player. At 15, she was the top-ranked woman player in the world. She was the Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999...

Soviet–French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from late 1969 to 1972.p381 Spassky won the USSR Chess Championship...

November 1981 in Amsterdam) was the 5th World Chess Champion, from 1935 to 1937. He was a Dutch chess grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was...

Alexei Shirov (born 4 July 1972 in Riga, Latvia) is a chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s...

played chess, which he studied for the rest of his life to the exclusion of most other activities. Duchamp can be seen, very briefly, playing chess with...

Castling is a special move in chess that uses both a rook and the king. In castling, the king is moved two squares toward the rook, and the rook moves...

A fork in chess happens when a knight's move attacks more than one piece at the same time without itself being attacked. The most fork attack is when...

Viswanathan Anand, known as Vishy, (born 11 December 1969) is a former World Chess Champion. He comes from India. Anand is the oldest player in modern times...

The Café de la Régence was a meeting place for chess players in Paris, France. It was the most famous chess meeting-place for over a century. The building...

Polish-American chess Grandmaster. Sammy was a famous chess prodigy, and later a leading American chess Grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship...

pieces, when found in Britain, have often been wrongly ascribed to chess. In chess, of course, the board is different, and there are six kinds of pieces...

February 1987, Saint Petersburg, is a Russian chess Grandmaster. Vitiugov came second in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship. He was a member of the gold...

Belarusian-Israeli chess grandmaster. He won the 2009 World Chess Cup. In 1998, Gelfand emigrated to Israel, where he is their top ranking chess player. Gelfand...

Radjabov, born 12 March 1987 in Baku, Azerbaijan, is the leading Azerbaijani chess player. Radjabov earned the title of Grandmaster in March 2001 at the age...

June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster. Kamsky won the 2010 Grenke Open World Rapid Chess Championship. He is rated #2 in the United...

Hikaru) (born December 9, 1987) is a professional chess player and net streamer and is the leading U.S. chess grandmaster (GM). He was born on 9 December 1987...

1933 – 30 November 2021) was an English chess player. FIDE made him a grandmaster in 1993. He competed in Chess Olympiads between 1952 and 1962, and at...

(Веселин Топалов, born 15 March 1975), is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former 'FIDE world chess champion'. This was a knock-out tournament of lower...

(born 14 July 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former Russian chess champion. He won the European Youth Chess Championship three times, in 2000...

open-source internet chess server. The chess server is run by a non-profit organization, which is also called Lichess. The Lichess chess server was created...

Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971 in Truro, Cornwall) is a British chess grandmaster (1989). His highest ranking was world #4, achieved several times...

Vassily Ivanchuk, born 18 March 1969, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Chucky, as he is affectionately known, has been a leading player in the world...

The English Opening, usually just called the English, is a chess opening for White. It has become the third most popular opening move, after 1.e4 and...

November 1980) is a chess grandmaster from Russia. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2009 World Team Chess Championship in Bursa...

a Georgian chess grandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion. She is the only chess player in history who has won nine Chess Olympiads....

The Ruy Lopez The Ruy Lopez, also called the Spanish Opening, is an old chess opening. It is named after the Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura. He may...

January 1823, Vienna) was a German-Austrian chess master and theoretician. He was also the author of the first chess handbook in German – Neue theoretisch-praktische...

Anatoly Karpov (born Zlatoust, Russia, 23 May 1951) is a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was official world champion from...

Ponomariov (Russian: Русла́н Пономарёв, born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE world champion. In 2002 he beat his fellow countryman...

Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move. Example of stalemate When stalemate...

1941) is a Georgian chess player. She was the strongest female player of the 1960s and 70s, and became the sixth Women's World Chess Champion (1962–1978)...

chess grandmaster, one of the top Russian players. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000 he made it to the semi finals. In the FIDE World Chess Championship...

Chatrang, or Shatranj, was the name given to the early game of chess when it travelled to Persia and then to the Arab world. In Sassanid Persia around...

1936 – Moscow, 28 June 1992) was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion. Tal played in 21 Soviet championships...

2014) was a leading chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan who died from a brain tumour. Gashimov was a noted player of bullet chess (2/3 minutes a side)...

Elbląg, Poland) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. In 2004 he won the European Youth Chess Championship (U-18), the World Youth Chess Championships (U-18) and...

The Queen's Gambit Declined is a chess opening which starts with 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6. It is an old opening, and one of the most important. It is often used...

October 1982 in Yerevan, is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. He is Armenia's #1 player. Aronian won the Chess World Cup 2005. He led the Armenian national...

executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records. The movie stars Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Cedric the Entertainer...

Poland, 12 December 1882 – 15 March 1961, Antwerp, Belgium) was a Polish chess Grandmaster in the first part of the 20th century. Around 1910 he was one...

first-move advantage in chess is the advantage of the player (White) who makes the first move in chess. Statistics of results on chess databases include almost...

The Queen's Gambit is a chess opening which starts with 1.d4 d5 2.c4. It is not really a gambit, because the pawn taken cannot be held. For example (simplest...

January 1990 in Simferopol) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster. He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for the youngest grandmaster...

was a leading Russian chess player. He was a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess", which dominated the chess world in the middle...

Double check is a chess term. It describes when the king is being attacked from two places at once. This forces the king to move, because taking one attacker...

Soviet chess grandmaster. From about 1937 to 1962 he was one of the top four players in the world. Keres narrowly missed a chance at a World Chess Championship...

Russian chess grandmaster. In 2001 he won the U18 Russian championship in Rybinsk with 9/10 and in 2004 he became second in the U18 World Youth Chess Championship...

– 12 November 2001) was an English chess Grandmaster. In 1973 Miles won the silver medal at the World Junior Chess Championship at Teesside, his first...

A gambit is a chess opening involving a sacrifice, usually a pawn. The player, usually White, sacrifices (gives away) a pawn or more to develop faster...

1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He is the 17th undisputed World Chess Champion, defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 World Chess Championship to...

where he took the chess world by storm. In an international chess career of less than five years (1929–33), he won the British Chess Championship three...

Fabiano Luigi Caruana, (born 30 July 1992 in Miami, Florida) is a chess grandmaster. He has dual citizenship of Italy and the United States. Fabiano plays...

1960) is an American chess grandmaster. He has been the United States champion four times. Seirawan won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979....

Chicago. 1948 he became member of Muddy Waters band and recorded with him for Chess records. First he played acoustic, the first appearance on record of Little...

World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was born to Armenian parents, and brought up in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan.p103 Before his chess career...

as the strongest English chess player of the 20th century. He became a Grandmaster at age 19. He challenged for the World Chess Championship against Garry...

1976 in Leningrad, is a Russian chess Grandmaster, and six times Russian chess champion. Peter Svidler learned to play chess when he was six years old. In...

Anderssen (Breslau, 6 July 1818 – Breslau, 13 March 1879) was a German chess master, and a teacher of mathematics. He was recognised as the best player...

a Russian chess player and author. He was the oldest living chess grandmaster at the time of his death. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation...

In chess, en passant (in passing in French) is a special move for pawns to capture. First, if the pawn moves two squares from their starting square and...

Olympic Games 2008 bronze medalist Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, chess player Zeinab Mamedyarova, chess player Mehman Huseynzade, football player "Sumqayıt şəhər...

members for such tournaments. Chess clubs, for example, often use ranking systems, chess clocks, and rules like those used in chess tournaments. A competition...

Efim Bogolyubov (14 April 1889 – 18 June 1952) was a Ukrainian–German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander...

became a full-time chess player. He wrote a book of all the known chess openings, the Encyclopédie des échecs (Encyclopedia of Chess, Paris, 1837). In...

French chess player. He became the chess teacher of the future Louis Philippe I. He was one of the most successful operators of The Turk, a famous chess-playing...

Bernard Bisguier (October 8, 1929–April 5, 2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer. Bisguier was born in New York City. He studied...

1930 – July 14, 2022) was a Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter (1985), psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author. He coached...

Muzychuk (born 28 February 1990 in Lviv, Ukraine) is the second-rated woman chess player in the world. She earned the title of Woman Grandmaster in 2004,...

Ukrainian chess Grandmaster. He was born in Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union. Thought by many to be one of the more colourful characters on the chess circuit,...

Avoirdupois, a system of measurement sometimes called "English". English opening, a chess opening English, Indiana, the county seat of Crawford County...

Jū Wénjūn; born 31 January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the current Women's World Chess Champion. She was born in Shanghai. In December...

Hyacinthe Henri Boncourt (1765? – March 23, 1840) was one of the leading chess players in France in the years between 1820 and 1840. Not much is known...

September 2010) was a Danish chess Grandmaster. He was a six-time Danish champion, and a candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions:...

any chess opening starting with the move: 1. e4 It is the most popular opening move in chess. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves...

The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a trick chess-playing machine. First put on show in 1770, the machine was in...

was an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and a former Catholic priest. Lombardy was one of the leading American chess players during the...

Yue Wang (born 31 March 1987) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He was the first Chinese chess player to reach the top 10 in the world, and the highest...

1 September 1924), nicknamed 'The Black Death', was the leading British chess Grandmaster during the later part of the 19th century. Blackburne learned...

The Réti opening (or just "the Réti") is a hypermodern chess opening. It starts with 1.Nf3. It was originally devised for sequences like 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4...

Viktor Korchnoi (23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a professional chess grandmaster. He was born in Leningrad, USSR (Saint Petersburg). In 1976 he defected...

was an eight-person chess tournament to decide who would advance to the World Championship to challenge Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship 2024...

Spanish chess player, author, and priest who may have invented the Ruy Lopez chess opening. Hooper D. & Whyld K. 1984. The Oxford Companion to Chess, p192...

Russian chess Grandmaster. He was ranked second, in the July 2008 FIDE rating list, but is now ranked ninth. Morozevich has been one of the best chess players...

Курносов; 30 May 1985 – 8 August 2013) was a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2008, he won the Arctic Chess Challenge. He was also the winner of 2008/9 Hastings...

is an English chess Grandmaster. A former World Youth Champion, he is one of England's leading players and a member of the English Chess Olympiad team...

Blagojević-Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Катарина Благојевић-Јовановић) was a Serbian chess player. She was born in Belgrade, Occupied Serbia, occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia...

1929 – January 13, 2017) was a German-born American computer scientist and chess player. He was born in Berlin and of Jewish descent. He was Professor of...

In chess, zwischenzug (German for "intermediate move") is a common tactic : instead of countering a direct threat, which the opponent expects, a move...

Chaturanga is an ancient Indian strategy game. It is the earliest known form of chess, dating back to the 6th century AD during the Gupta Empire. The name comes...

Яковлевич Лейн; March 28, 1931 – March 1, 2018) was a Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster. He was born in Leningrad. In 1976 Lein emigrated to the United...

Kenneth Rogoff (born March 22 , 1953) is an American economist and chess grandmaster. He is a professor of economics at Harvard University. He is known...

1931 – May 26, 2016) was a Spanish chess grandmaster (GM). He was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He was a chess prodigy because he won the championship...

Russian-born Swiss chess player. Lematschko was born in Moscow. She won both the Women's Bulgarian Chess Championship and Swiss Chess Championship several...

1935 – 24 August 2020) was a German chess grandmaster. He was East Germany's most successful professional chess player. He won the German Democratic...

Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018) was a Georgian chess player. She was born in the Soviet Union. She held the FIDE titles of International...

2020) was an influential Ukrainian-born American chess grandmaster. In 1981, at age 29, Sher became a chess coach for the Russian national team, a role he...

The hypermoderns were a school of chess players who set out to rethink some of the principles of chess openings. The name was given to them by the Polish-French...

d6 Philidor's defence, usually called the Philidor, is one of the basic chess openings. It was used often by the 18th century master François-André Danican...

Zoltan Sarosy (August 23, 1906 – June 19, 2017) was a Canadian chess master. He was born in Budapest. He won numerous tournaments in his native country...

Рафаэлович Дохоян; 26 October 1964 – 1 July 2021) was a Russian Grandmaster of chess (1988). On 1 July 2021, Dokhoian died in Moscow from COVID-19 at the age...

Lubomír Kaválek, August 9, 1943 – January 18, 2021) was a Czech-American chess player. He was awarded both the International Master and Grandmaster titles...

David Hooper (31 August 1915 – 3 May 1998), born in Reigate, was a British chess player and writer. As an amateur, he got fifth place in the 1949 British...

Emory Andrew Tate II (December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015) was an American chess player. His son is Emory Andrew Tate III. Tate II was born in Chicago to...

Chess960, also known as Fischer random chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position of the pieces on their back row, but there are...

Colombian chess player. He became Colombia's second Grandmaster in 1992. He won the Colombian national champion 10 times. In 2006, he played in the chess olympiads...

Cuba) is a Cuban chess Grandmaster. He won the Cuban Chess Championship in 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2012. During the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship he...

September 2020) was a Moldovan chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002. He won the Moldovan Chess Championship in 2000. He tied...

known as Gukesh D, is an Indian chess grandmaster who is the current World Chess Champion. He is the youngest World Chess Champion and the youngest Candidates...

2019) was an Iranian chess International Master. He was a repeated Champion of Iran, he was a member of the national team in five Chess Olympiads. He also...

is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and Women's World Champion from 2004 to 2006. She has been a representative for Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad in 2000...

Kałęcka; 6 September 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a Polish chess player. She won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1968 and the FIDE Woman International...

an Argentine chess Grandmaster. Panno was the first top world chess player born in South America. Panno won the 2nd World Junior Chess Championship in...

Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795–1840) was probably the world's best chess player around 1830. Born in Réunion, he followed Deschapelles as the top...

9, 1995 – October 19, 2025), sometimes known as Danya, was an American chess grandmaster, author, and commentator. He was born in San Mateo, California...

Kosteniuk (born Perm, Volga, 23 April 1984) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and former Women's World Chess Champion. She lost her title in 2010. Alexandra is...

Chessplus is a chess variant made by the Australian family company Chessplus Team. Chessplus can come in 1 of 3 packages. A bag of pieces. A box featuring...

Vachier-Lagrave (born 21 October 1990) is a French chess Grandmaster and the 2009 World Junior Chess Champion. MVL, as he is sometimes called, is at present...

Alireza Firouzja (born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian-French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have passed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating...

Soviet-Russian chess Woman Grandmaster and Soviet-Russian-Estonian philologist of Jewish descent. She was three times Soviet women's chess champion (1954...

Planinec (18 April 1944 – 20 December 2008) was a chess Grandmaster from Slovenia. He won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1968 and 1971. Planinc enjoyed...

Robert Hübner (November 6, 1948 – January 5, 2025) was a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players...

(bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a member of the corvid family Rook (chess), a piece in chess. Name derives from Rukh Rooks County, Kansas Sukhoi Su-25 or Rook...

October 1932 – 8 August 2024) was a Dutch chess player. Staal was born in Amsterdam. He learned to play chess from his father. In 1950 he was youth champion...

a Serbian chess player and journalist. She was the most known female player of Yugoslavia and became a contender for the Women's World Chess Championship...

known as Ruth Orton; January 23, 1955 – November 29, 2018) was an American chess player and Woman International Master. Born in Maine, she competed in the...

1798–1835) was an Irish chess master. who played in a competition, a series with six matches with the world's leading Chess Player Louis-Charles Mahé...

1993) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. So got the GM title at the age of 14 years, 1 month and 28 days, making him the 8th youngest chess grandmaster. So's...

Eva Moser (26 July 1982 – 31 March 2019) was an Austrian chess player. She was awarded the titles International Master (IM), in 2004, and Woman Grandmaster...

December 1935 – 2 July 2017) was an Israeli (formerly Soviet and Russian) chess player. She held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and was twice women's...

Levente Lengyel (13 June 1933 – 18 August 2014) was a Hungarian chess player. Lengyel gained the title of International Master in 1962 and became a Grandmaster...

Badulescu, was a Romanian chess player, an Mnternational Master and Woman Grandmaster. She won the Women's Romanian Chess Championship five times. She...

Chinese chess grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang became the fourth ever Chinese player to cross the 2700 rating mark. He was the 2010 Chinese chess champion...

is the symbol for the element phosphorus, or sometimes for phosphate. In chess, P is sometimes used as a symbol for the pawn piece. In American football...

Иван Александрович Букавшин; 3 May 1995 – 12 January 2016) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won the Russian Cup in 2015. He became Grandmaster in 2011...

1980, Chicago) was a Lithuanian-American chess master. He played twice for the Lithuanian team in the Chess Olympiads, at eighth board (+4 –8 =2) at Munich...

2022 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament to decide the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2023. The tournament took place...

István Csom (June 2, 1940 – July 28, 2021) was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster and International Arbiter. He became an International Master in 1967 and...

Aloyzas Kveinys (9 July 1962 — 26 July 2018) was a Lithuanian chess player. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1992. He was born in Mažeikiai, Lithuania...

Hawkins (1 May 1983 – 22 December 2025) was an English chess grandmaster. He was the British Chess Champion in 2015. He beated David Howell with whom he...

best chess players in the 18th century. He is considered by many to be one of the strongest players in chess history. His name famous among all chess players...

Crazyhouse is a chess variant that captured enemy pieces can be returned, or dropped into the game as their own. It was made from a two-player and a single-board...

defence The English Wikibook Chess Opening Theory has more information on: Dutch Defence The Dutch defence is one of the oldest chess openings. It aims to counter-attack...

January 1, 1979) is an Iranian chess International Master. He was born in Tehran, Iran. He is also the coach of the Iranian Chess national youth team, and in...

chess player. He was an International Master from 1975 until his death. He was 13 times Portuguese champion, and represented his country in ten Chess...

Terence Solomon (born 8 October 1979), is the first-ever South African chess Grandmaster to get the title without reaching the required rating of 2500...

everyone would notice them. The word is also used in problem-solving. In chess, a distinction is made between legal moves and candidate moves. The candidate...

(Armenian: Արսեն Եղիազարյան; 18 May 1970 – 20 April 2020) was an Armenian chess player. He was born in Yerevan. He became a Grandmaster in 2000, and a FIDE...

1994) is a Dutch chess prodigy. He got the grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 2 days at the 2009 Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk...

Jevgēņijs Svešņikovs; 11 February 1950 – 18 August 2021) was a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1977...

means the month November In chemistry, N is the symbol for nitrogen In chess, N is a symbol for the knight piece. A character from the game and anime...

short letter for Thursday instead of T, to avoid mistakes with Tuesday. In chess, R is a notation symbol for the rook piece. In geometry, R is most times...

László Bárczay (21 February 1936 – 7 April 2016) was a Hungarian chess Grandmaster. In 1966 he was awarded the FIDE International Master title. At the...

Едуардович Богданович; 4 February 1993 – 5 March 2020) was a Ukrainian chess player. He was born in Odesa. He was awarded the title of International...

The Giuoco Piano (Italian for quiet game) is a chess opening deriving from the Italian Game and beginning with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5...

Filipino-born Australian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master (WIM) by FIDE. She won the Oceania women's chess championship in...

Polgár is a Hungarian name which may refer to: Judit Polgár, the strongest-ever woman chess player. Susan Polgar, the former Women's World Chess Champion....

was a Czech chess player. She held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986). She was a ten-time winner of the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship...

The Immortal Game was a chess game played on 21 June 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. Anderssen was White, and he played the King's Gambit...

Krunoslav Hulak (25 May 1951 – 23 October 2015) was a Croatian chess master. He was awarded the International Master title in 1974, and the grandmaster...

The Slav. Chess Press, Brighton Matthew Sadler 1998. The Semi-Slav. Chess Press, Brighton. The English Wikibooks has more information on: Chess Opening...

Anish Sarkar (born 26 January 2021) is an Indian chess prodigy who became the youngest player in the world to receive a FIDE rating, achieving this milestone...

Abramović (Бошко Абрамовић; 14 February 1951 – 19 December 2021) was a Serbian chess grandmaster. Abramović won the FIDE International Master title in 1980 and...

a Serbian chess player. He was the Grandmaster (GM) in 1978. He also won the Yugoslav Chess Championship in 1985 and won bronze at the Chess Olympiad in...

December 1840) was a French Chess Master. He was born on the island of la Réunion in the Indian Ocean in 1795. He learned chess in 1814 and began to take...

February 1945 – 2 September 2022) was a Croatian chess Grandmaster. He won the 19th World Senior Chess Championship at Condino 2009. In 2011 he was awarded...

Slobodan Martinovic (25 July 1945 – 10 January 2015) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He began in 1963, and played until his death in 2015. Martinović...

January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an American chess Grandmaster and poker player. Browne won the U.S. Chess Championship six times. He was born to an American...

Chessmaster is a series of chess-playing computer games. It is made by Ubisoft. It is the best-selling chess franchise in history, with more than five...

The Nimzo-Indian defence is a popular chess opening with these initial moves: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4. The basic idea is for Black to challenge for...

Lembit Oll (23 April 1966 – Tallinn, 17 May 1999) was an Estonian chess grandmaster. He was already successful as a junior, becoming champion of Estonia...

apprenticeships learning how to play a game, such as contract bridge or chess or a sport such as football. Such trainers are often called coaches. professional...

search goes on for a new goal and a new or adjusted strategy. Often, in war, chess or business, roughly the same tactics are still used to get to a different...

is an Israeli and former Soviet chess player. He became a grandmaster in 1998. Zilberman participated in the 30th Chess Olympiad at Manila in 1992. With...

and musician. He played the role as Anatoly/"The Russian" in the musical Chess. Swedish 1969 – Judy min vän 1970 – Tommy 1971 – Tommy Körberg 1972 – Solar...

Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 – c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player. Lucena's book online Berliner Schach-Erinnerungen nebst den Spielen des Greco und...

Palmer, Robert (1989). Muddy Waters: Chess Box (Box set booklet). Muddy Waters. Universal City, California: Chess Records/MCA Records. OCLC 154264537....

The French defence is a chess opening, one of the asymmetric replies to 1.e4, namely 1...e6. It is the third most popular reply to 1.e4. Often, Black...

Elisabeta Polihroniade (24 April 1935 – 23 January 2016) was a Romanian chess player and journalist. She became a Woman Grandmaster in 1982. She was also...

Statistik Niedersachsen. Emden Homepage Kunsthalle Emden Kickers Emden Chess Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine Cruisers EMDEN, Frigates EMDEN...

has changed since the preceding backup copy. Increment, chess term for additional time a chess player receives on each move Incremental games Increment...

performing arts. The library has a chess room that houses a wide range of materials on the history, study and practice of chess. It contains a collection of...

December 16, 2017) was a German chess player, international master (1962). In the national team of the GDR party of six Chess Olympiads (1956-1966) and IV...

was a Russian chess international master and correspondence grandmaster. He was born in Zaporizhia, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. He became a chess master in 1964...

problem-solving techniques studied in gestalt psychology, cognitive psychology. and chess. Problems can be classified as ill-defined or well-defined. Ill-defined...

artificial intelligence research company DeepMind. It plays the games of chess, shogi and go better than humans can. The algorithm uses an approach similar...

Dmitry Jakovenko (born 29 June 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. On the July 2009 FIDE rating list, Jakovenko had a rating of 2760, but he has slipped...

Pinkerton, American detective (b. 1819) July 10 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837) November 25 – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist...

If you know chess notation, then the usual chess setup is the game The dots "..." mean there are many moves, so not all are shown. Chess is very complex...

Johannes “Joop” Fernhout (27 June 1920 - 9 October 1995) was a Dutch chess player and chess composer. During World War II, Fernhout worked at Statistics Netherlands...

Sicilian might mean: Anything related to Sicily Sicilians, people of Sicily Sicilian language Sicilian defence, a chess move...

journalist and chess player. From 1974 to 2007, he worked for the Haagsche Courant. Münninghoff wrote among others many articles and books about chess sport....

The Caro–Kann Defence The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening. It begins: 1.e4 c6 Black's idea for playing c6 is to support 2...d5. Usually, the next...

The Lewis Chessmen, or Uig Chessmen, are 78 12th-century chess pieces, most of which are carved in walrus ivory. The hoard was discovered in 1831 on the...

together is Alice's journey as a pawn from the start of a fantasy game of chess until she reaches the eighth rank and becomes a queen. The story is about...

Wiktionary has a definition for: combination. Combination may mean: in chess a sequence of forcing moves, usually involving a sacrifice. in computer...

many local people Entertainment Rook (chess), a chess piece sometimes called a "castle" Castling, a move in chess involving the rook and king Castle (card...

Raimundo García (27 May 1936 – 13 October 2020) was an Argentine chess master. He was born in Buenos Aires. García won at Mar del Plata 1962 (Torneo Latino-americano)...

Bird's Opening is a chess opening characterised by the move: 1. f4. Bird's is a flank opening. White's strategic ideas involve control of the e5-square...

different things, for example, sport, writing, music, dancing, science, or chess. Some competitions need a referee. The referee will make sure that the game...

by experiencing. For example, if someone wants to learn about the game chess, they would play several games. By making mistakes and learning from them...

exclamation mark, Unicode character U+203C) may refer to: !! (chess), a brilliant move in chess annotation Double factorial, an operator in mathematics Retroflex...

or a k sound as in unique. Below are some ancient ways of writing Q. In chess, Q is used to mean the queen piece. In English, Q can be a short letter...

Reichert. Ferguson is an internationally rated chess master. He has twice won the Washington State Chess Championship. "Bob Ferguson defeats Matt Larkin...

column of men one in front of the other. See also Rank (formation) File (chess) file (Unix), a program used to determine file types. The File menu filé...

Carlos Jesús Torre Repetto (29 November 1904 – 19 March 1978) was a Mexican chess grandmaster. He was given the grandmaster title in 1977. This short article...

1925 – 12 May 2014) was a Slovak painter and chess composer. His career began in 1977 with composing chess problems. He was arrested for six years. He...

technical term in several disciplines: Transposition (music) Transposition (chess) Transposition (genetics), a term sometimes used for the action of a transposon...

Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita. He also co-wrote the shows Blondel, Chess and the English lyrics for Starmania. He had a long-term relationship in...

Pál; July 15, 1928 – August 26, 2019) was a French-born Hungarian–American chess grandmaster. Benko's highest achievement was qualifying and competing in...

in a facet are arranged in a regular pattern, such as the pattern of a chess board or a honeycomb. There facets reflect light to give crystals their...

tree. in opposition - against all odds in competition - The boy played chess against his father. touching with strong force - Ocean waves crash against...

Pavel Eljanov (born 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Eljanov's most notable tournament result to date was winning Corus B tournament 2007 in Wijk...

Steinitz is the surname of several notable people: Wilhelm Steinitz, world chess champion. Paul Steinitz, organist and conductor....

Austrian football. Beside the football section the club has 14 others, like chess, Judo and gymnastics. The club was founded on 29 April 1946. Then the club...

are: Playing sports, such as football or hockey Playing games, such as chess or cards Exercising (e.g. running or lifting weights) Watching television...

Chuck Berry: The Chess Era (1955-1966)". Retrieved December 7, 2010. Gold (CD liner). Chuck Berry. United States: Geffen Records/Chess Records. 2005. pp...

having poor judgement The Fool (Tarot card), a Tarot card The meaning of fou, French term for the piece which in English is called "bishop". See chess....

The Evans Gambit is an aggressive chess opening that begins with the moves: 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4...

may be one of these pages: Harald Keres, Estonian physicist Paul Keres, Estonian chess grandmaster Keres (spirits) Kereš, a river in Hungary and Serbia...

Swedish musical group ABBA (1972–1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. He co-produced the movie Mamma...

born 8 September 1979) in Subotica, Yugoslavia is the leading Hungarian chess grandmaster. He became a grandmaster in 1994 at the age of 14 years (a world...

Eleanor of Aquitaine and her sons rebel against her husband Henry II of England in the Revolt of 1173-1174 First recorded use of algebraic chess notation...

Cinématon – A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant Chess Express Arrabal – Arrabal's chess blog Fernando Arrabal on IMDb This short article about...

On Home") The songs are from the 1950s when Dixon worked as producer for Chess Records. He also played upright bass on many of the label's records. Dixon...

Italy Carlos Torre Repetto (1905–1978), chess grandmaster from Mexico Eugenio Torre (born 1951), Filipino chess grandmaster Joe Torre (born 1940), manager...

the Swedish music group ABBA (1972–1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. For the 2008 movie version of Mamma...

chemistry, K is the symbol for potassium (from its German name kalium). In chess, K is a notation symbol for the king piece In a deck of playing cards, the...

March 1804) was a Austro-Hungarian author and inventor. He is known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax, The Turk, and for his speaking machine. Von Kempelen...

A genius may be extremely clever at maths or science or games such as chess, or they may be creative geniuses who are brilliant writers, musicians or...

are Neftchi Baku, FC Baku and Inter Baku. Baku is one of world's leading chess centres. Today, Baku is divided into 11 raions (administrative districts)...

Wayback Machine repeats the "T-R-È" spelling found in the credits. Owen, Chess. "Names -> Music Performer Pseudonyms -> S". Archived from the original...

August 1974 – 9 May 2020) was a Dutch artist who was best known for starting chess boxing in 2003. He was born in Rotterdam. Rubingh died on 9 May 2020 in...

fields. It's also known in Croatian as šahovnica ("chessboard", from šah, "chess"). The five smaller shields represent five different historical regions...

forming a group of friends which he calls Team MAR. Team MAR fight the Chess Pieces, an evil group of people who wish to turn MAR Heaven into a nightmare...

Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (died 1621) Pietro Carrera, Sicilian chess player, priest and painter (died 1647) Robert Catesby, English leader of...

(September 29, 1919 – September 6, 2014) was a former Soviet-born Belarusian chess player who spent many years living in Belarus. Zvorykina was born in Mykolaiv...

The Modern defence The Modern defence is a chess opening. It is almost the only defence which can be played against any opening move; and it may be played...

the fourth cube after 1, 8, and 27. There are sixty-four 1x1 squares on a chess, checkers and draughts board. It is also a power of two. This short article...

shows three of the verses, with an illustration of Shams-e Tabriz playing chess. In this painting, there are three sections showing different people in...

Championship. The Bosnian chess team has been Champion of Yugoslavia seven times. In addition the club ŠK Bosna Sarajevo won four Chess Club Cup : 1994 in Lyon...

of objects made from different hardwoods. Chess pieces: boxwood and rosewood Chess pieces: cocobolo Chess pieces: red sandalwood Chessboard, ebony and...

a list, to place a tick against. Check, a threat to capture the king in chess. Check, declining to bet in a game of poker Check, a fine dining receipt...

Zeppelin and appeared as the third track on the album. On the original Chess singles, only Willie Dixon is listed as the songwriter This short article...

a monarchy, or the wife of a king. Queen may also refer to: Queen (chess), a chess piece Queen (playing card), a playing card with a picture of a woman...

actions. In a game of chess or go, the pieces and the rules are known, but the implications of the position are not. This identifies chess as a perfect information...

Los Alamos, a book by the photographer William Eggleston Los Alamos chess, a chess variant Los Alamos (AFDB-7), a former large floating dry dock Los Álamos...

Égalité (d.1759) September 1 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (d. 1795) December 1 – Oliver Wolcott, signer of the United States...

Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (Russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов) is a Russian chess grandmaster who is known for his aggressive style in rapid and blitz games...

Győző Victor Forintos (30 July 1935 – 6 December 2018) was a Hungarian chess master and an economist. He was born in Budapest. He first participated in...

ancestor of the modern domestic apple. Zhansaya Abdumalik (born 2000), chess Grandmaster and prodigy Altynai Asylmuratova (born 1961), prima ballerina...

Supreme Court. In 2006, Sloan was on the executive board of the United States Chess Federation. He has run unsuccessfully or attempted to run for several political...

Čmilytė-Nielsen (née Čmilytė; born 6 August 1983) is a Lithuanian politician and chess player. She is the current Speaker of the Seimas since 13 November 2020...

volleyball, team handball, water polo, ice hockey, artistic gymnastics, chess, boxing, fencing and others. Maccabi Haifa is well known for its green uniforms...

Borislav Ivkov (November 12, 1933 – February 14, 2022) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He was a World championship candidate in 1965. He played in four...

Wolf moved to Chicago and spent time with Muddy Waters. They recorded for Chess Records. While Waters toured the country performing, Burnett began to play...

Mihai Șubă (ro; 1 June 1947 – 26 October 2025) was a Romanian and Spanish chess player. He was awarded by FIDE the International Master title in 1975 and...

Adriaan de Groot studied the ability of chess grandmasters to memorize the positions of chess pieces on a chess board. At first, people thought they had...

(Russian: Евгений Андреевич Васюко́в, 5 March 1933 – 10 May 2018) was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He was born in Moscow. During his career, he won the Championship...

com, "From Amateur to Professional Sportsman"; retrieved 2012-8-3. World Chess Federation, "Women's World Champion Yifan Hou - Sportsperson of the Year...

Chess Cricket Cross-country Hockey Netball Rugby Soccer Swimming Tennis Volleyball Sports at the Senior College include: Athletics Basketball Chess Cricket...

Людмила Сергеевна Белавенец; 7 June 1940 – 7 November 2021) was a Russian chess player. She was the fourth women's world champion (1984–1992) and was won...

algorithm is absolutely unbeatable. It is primarily used in games like chess, tic-tac-toe, Go, etc. However, in comparison to modern Neural Networks...

Major League Soccer (MLS) referee Jorge González (chess player), Colombian chess player, see Colombian Chess Championship Jorge González (sport shooter) (born...

London Buses route B15 One of the ECO codes for the Caro–Kann Defence in chess Nissan Sentra chassis code, years 2000–2006 A nickname for Brandon Marshall...

but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page). The original Chess single listed the songwriter as "E. Anderson"; Berry's full name was "Charles...

Tseitlin; 23 September 1943 – 25 January 2022) was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1978 and that...

Virtual Kasparov is a chess video game. It was by Titus Software for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance. It was released for the PlayStation in 2001...

first World Cup will be in Southern England in 2013. Every year there is a chess competition for micronations to play in. It is played on the computer and...

wrestling body, now known as WWE Chess World Cup, a number of different chess tournaments All pages with titles containing Chess World Cup Collegiate World...

Defense (legal) Defense of property Right of self-defense Self-defence a chess opening by Black HMS Defence, Royal Navy ships of this name Defense of a...

Beethoven" is a 1956 song by Chuck Berry and was originally released on Chess Records. The lyrics of the song mention with rock and roll with classical...

Rama IV is crowed King of Thailand. July – The immortal game, a famous chess game, is played. July 1 – Colony of Victoria separates from New South Wales...

fungi etc. A simple phrase to remember the order is "Dignified Kings Play Chess On Fine Green Silk" (there are many other such phrases). A distinction is...

is a digraph that has the sound of /ʃ/. It's a digraph like ch like in chess, th or þ like in think, ph or ɸ like in phone, and wh or ʍ like in whale...

posteriori probability, a term with two uses in mathematics A posteriori (chess), a retrograde analysis convention All pages with titles containing a posteriori...

Be7 6.0-0 0-0 7.Nc3 Ne4 8.Qc2 Nxc3 9.Qxc3 The English Wikibooks has more information on: Chess Opening Theory/1. d4/1...Nf6/2. c4/2...e6/3. Nf3/3...b6...

physician Josef Bek, 76, Czech film actor Mikhail Botvinnik, 83, Soviet chess player Anthony Wagner, 86, 20th century English officer of arms at the College...

solving more specific problems. In 1997, the chess computer Deep Blue became the first computer program to beat chess world champion Garry Kasparov. In 2011...

known as Middle shogi, is a board game similar to modern shogi (Japanese chess). The board is larger than modern shogi in size, which is 12x12 instead...

Mayor of Mainz, the state capital of Rhineland-Palatinate. He was also a chess player. He was born in Lünen, Westphalia. Beutel died on 8 May 2019, at...

Championships U.S. Open Beer championship U.S. Open (bowling) U.S. Open Chess Championship U.S. Open (crosswords) U.S. Open (cycling) US Open (darts)...

philosopher. Roger Penrose is the brother of mathematician Oliver Penrose and chess grandmaster Jonathan Penrose. His sister, now Shirley Hodgson, is a notable...

published. 1985 – Garry Kasparov of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest world chess champion, defeating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union. 1989 – Communist–controlled...

Waters partially owed his recording career at Chess Records to Sunnyland Slim who introduced him to the Chess brothers at his own birthday party. His first...

The middlegame is the part of a game of chess after the opening. The middlegame begins when most of the pieces have been developed. It is where most games...

player Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor Hikaru Nakamura, American chess player Hikaru Shida, Japanese professional wrestler Hikaru Utada, also known...

British people call the game "draughts". English draughts is played on an 8x8 chess board. Only the dark squares are used: the light squares are never used...

Arif, 2nd President of Iraq (d. 1966) March 24 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010) March 25 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995) April...

2017-08-15. "History | Uniting six federations of the traditional mind sports : Chess, Bridge, Draughts, Go and Xiangqi with over 400 National Associations and...

Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999) June 1 – Nigel Short, English chess player July 31 – J. K. Rowling, writer August 25 – Mia Zapata, singer August...

Israel to be banned from Fifa, but these efforts have failed. The 1976 Chess Olympiad was held in Haifa, Israel, causing controversy because countries...

Bishop in chess. Dragon Horse: Moves the same as the Bishop, but it can also move one square in any direction. Rook: Moves like the Rook in chess. Dragon...

Nintendo's board games such as being on the protagonist side in the Mario themed chess set, as well as being a purchasable character in the Nintendo Monopoly game...

Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944) 1883 – Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian chess player (d. 1932) 1887 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)...

in school but his father, who was a doctor, taught Stanley how to play chess and gave him a camera. Kubrick finished high school in 1946 and could not...

Union merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal. Van Hulst was also a chess player and a former academic. On March 22, 2018, Van Hulst died in Amsterdam...

is divided into five parts. They are: The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water and What the Thunder Said. It is composed...

shore he meets the figure of Death in person. This is the scene of a famous chess-playing episode where the two play for the knight's soul. The game is unfinished...

This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games (games like Chess or Go), and often to games with full information and no element of chance;...

about how the Croatian king Držislav, captured by the Venetians, played a chess match. His opponent was Doge Pietro II Orseolo. He won and became free,...

existentialist films of the mid-20th century. The knight plays a game of chess with death against the background crisis of the 13th century, with the Black...

In 1920 the name was changed from FV to SV werder Bremen. In this year chess, baseball, cricket and track and field athletics became part of the club...

Ukrainian boy called Sergey Karjakin became the youngest ever Grandmaster at chess. Zerah Colburn was the first of several children known as "mental calculators...

producer, and screenwriter(d. 1993) August 17 – Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (d. 1995) September 7 – Todor Zhivkov, General Secretary of the...

Lomax John Richbourg Gene Nobles Jimmy Rogers Non Performers: Leonard Chess Phil Chess Charles Brown David "Honeyboy" Edwards Non Performers: Bob Koester...

(1891–1970), Russian mathematician Abram Blass (born 1895), Polish-Israeli chess master Abram Bergson (1914–2003), American economist "Abram name Meaning...

diplomat (d. 1997) 1919 – Vladimir Simagin, Chess International Grandmaster & Master, International Correspondence Chess Master, trainer 1919 – Paolo Soleri,...

Malaniuk, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1957) 2017 – Chris Roberts, German singer (b. 1944) 2017 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet-born Israeli chess player (b. 1935)...

Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010) 1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986) 1924 –...

song. After Cats, she appeared in Abbacadbra, an ABBA compilation, and Chess, also written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA but with lyrics...

the game is an important part of the culture, like chess is in many western countries. Go and chess are both board games and games of strategy. They both...

as playing games or solving puzzles. Games include board games such as chess, card games, and newer games such as wargaming and role-playing games. Popular...

Afghanistan closes. 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in chess. 1994 – The Dallas Cowboys win their fourth Super Bowl title, 30-13 over...

Russia and its teams. Chess is the main intellectual sport in Russia. In the 20th century, there were nine Russian World Chess Champions, more than all...

becomes a lecturer in Paris, and writes De Natura Rerum, an early mention of chess (approximate date) Estimation: Hangzhou, capital of Southern Song China...

stop people who are sick from getting worse. Epidemiology Prophylaxis (chess) Vaccine Wikimedia Commons has media related to Prophylaxis. This short...

games like Valorant, Fortnite, and Counter-Strike. Sapnap has joined Twitch chess events like PogChamps. He has appeared in videos by MrBeast, including one...

Sydney, aged 48. Andrew Dempster (27 August 2012). "The Production Company's CHESS: The Musical". Vulture Magazine. Archived from the original on 27 September...

Cortex-A55, a processor microarchitecture Old Indian Defense, Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code Austin Cambridge A55, a British car GER Class A55, a British...

0.8%. Other ethnicities are 2.1%. Yuri Balashov (born March 12, 1949), chess grandmaster Oleg Bogomolov (born October 4, 1950), former Governor of Kurgan...

the word Emir. In Hebrew the name may mean crown. Amir Bagheri, Iranian chess grandmaster Mirza Khan (title) Amir Khan, Hindustani classical vocalist...

World Wide Web, is carried out. December 31 – Garry Kasparov wins the World Chess Championship against Anatoly Karpov. Chris Farley and Adam Sandler join...

netball, and water polo, as well as squash, motorsport, martial arts, chess, cycling, polocrosse, kayaking and horse racing. Most of these sports don't...

in Japan. Yonezawa is also known for its soba noodles. Shogi (Japanese chess) pieces are made in the city of Tendo. The pieces are carved from wood....

wood for more or less nothing. Shatranj ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) tells the story of chess players who are so concentrated on a game that they forget...

Pitkänen (born 1990), Finnish ice hockey player Ilmari Rahm (d. 1939), Finnish chess player Ilmari Saarelainen (born 1944) Finnish actor Ilmari Salminen (d....

nightclub singer in the 1930s. In 1952, she landed a recording contract with Chess Records and recorded alongside Red Saunders for the record label. Adams...

warning symbols Mathematical symbols Jolly Roger Skull and crossbones "No" symbol Chess symbols in Unicode Media related to Symbols at Wikimedia Commons...

of Crotone in the Calabria region in Italy. The town is called "City of chess". Football player Vincenzo Iaquinta was born here. "Classificazioni statistiche...

for Blue Sky Records. It was also the first studio album after he left Chess Records The recordings lasted three days. For the recordings Muddy used...

in the Soviet Armed Forces from 1971 to 1972. He is the chairman of the Chess Federation of Armenia. Besides speaking Armenian, he also can speak in Russian...

Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011) 1944 – Vlastimil Hort, Czech–German chess player 1944 – Jim Gray, American computer scientist (d. 2007) 1946 – George...

removed from power by the military. 1980 – Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be given the degree of International Master. 1981 – In Spain,...

Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926) 1860 – Jackson Showalter, American chess player (d. 1935) 1862 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician (d. 1953)...

Meadows, American actress (d. 1996) February 8 - Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player (d. 2022) February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer and actress...

maker 1955 – Judy Davis, Australian actress 1955 – Tony Miles, English chess player 1955 – Mike Smith, English television and radio presenter (d. 2014)...

Emilio Izaguirre, Honduran footballer 1986 – Pendyana Harikrishna, Indian chess player 1987 – Wilson Chandler, American basketball player 1987 – Emmanuel...

Hudiyev, contemporary poet and writer Mammad Araz, poet Vladimir Makogonov, chess International Master and Grandmaster Ajami Nakhchivani, architect and founder...

Blackmore’s Night from their 2006 album The Village Lanterne Windmill (chess), a combination of moves where a series of discovered checks result in winning...

known as the Müller–Schulze Gambit or Leipzig Gambit) is an aggressive chess opening which begins with these moves: e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Nc3 Nf6 (Four Knights...

lgm. LGM can be Last Glacial Maximum Lady International Correspondence Chess Grand Master Lao Gan Ma LGM (movie) or Let's Get Married, an Indian Tamil-language...

military officer, inventor, engineer March 8 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player April 15 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist April 18 – Gertrude Vanderbilt...

(conductor), Principal Conductor of Birmingham Royal Ballet Paul Murphy (musician) (born 1949), jazz percussionist Paul Morphy (1837–1884), chess player...

International Master (IM) of chess. He first learned to play chess when he was five years old. He learned to play chess at the age of five and competed...

special is lacking. High achievers in fields like music, mathematics and chess may be tutored when classroom methods do not meet their needs. There are...

biologist and writer (d. 1788) 1726 – François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795) 1731 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, English composer...

thermonuclear weapon. 1969 – Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become world chess champion. 1971 – Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the...

– Ernst Ziller, German architect (d. 1923) 1837 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884) 1845 – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d...

American Football wide receiver (b. 1942) September 23 – Eduard Gufeld, Soviet chess player (b. 1936) September 24 – Mike Webster, American football player (b...

Horton, James Cotton...). Willie Dixon, who played the bass and produced for Chess Records, wrote a lot of his hits from this time.(I'm Your Hoochie Coochie...

Pacula, the Microchip Monster, the Power Supply Monster Kill-O-Watt, the Chess Program Pieces and the Ghost-Lord-Orb Mezmaron, who was their uncle and...

economist Ali Aliyev, 57, Soviet freestyle wrestler Harry Golombek, 83, British chess player Maud Bruce, 100, American forewoman Carlos Monzón, 52, Argentine...

Elitserien (badminton) Elitserien (bandy) Elitserien (baseball) Elitserien (chess) Elitserien (men's curling) Elitserien (women's curling) Elitserien (orienteering)...

Slovak, Israeli–born guitarist (d. 1988) 1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player 1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress 1964 – Andy Goram, Scottish...

American chess player 1992 – Hannah Cockroft, British Paralympic athlete 1993 – Miho Miyazaki, Japanese singer (AKB48) 1995 – Jorge Cori, Peruvian chess player...

to form the Persian-supported Palmyrene Empire. Earliest known date of chess. Pope Dionysius makes bishop Dionysius of Alexandria explain why he is separating...

Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951) 1910 – Genrikh Gasparyan, Armenian chess player and composer (d. 1995) 1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d....

signature song and was the third in a string of successful songs from her Chess Records debut album At Last!. Upon the songs release in April of 1961, it...

Japan (d. 1948) 1868 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941) 1886 – Richard Teichmann, German chess player (d. 1925) 1869 – Henriette Roland-Holst...

TTRPGs came from early strategy and war games which came from games like chess. In the 1970s, designers began putting together wargame rules with storytelling...

René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879) 1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850) 1908 – Ouida, English writer (b. 1839) 1925 – Ivan Vucetic...

(Fabrics) Traders also brought other things; for example, they brought chess pieces from northern India to China and Persia. Most likely, no trader traveled...

November 21, 2006) was an American Delta blues guitarist. He recorded for Chess Records and other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the only...

cross–Antarctica journey. 1990 – Garry Kasparov successfully defends his world chess title against Anatoly Karpov. 1991 – The Soviet Union officially comes to...

Casa, Swiss operatic soprano (d. 2012) 1923 – Svetozar Gligoric, Serbian chess player (d. 2012) 1923 – Bonita Granville, American actress (d. 1988) 1923...

dancer and choreographer (d. 2018) 1941 – Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player 1941 – Edward Malloy, American educator 1942 – Butch Otter, American...

Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905) 1846 – Hermann Clemenz, Estonian chess player (d. 1908) 1855 – John Browning, American inventor (d. 1926) 1857...

launched to the asteroid 433 Eros. 1996 – After being defeated in a game of chess on February 10, Garry Kasparov wins a six-match series 4–2 against the computer...

2010) 1914 – Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother (d. 1958) 1917 – Leonard Chess, American company executive (d. 1969) 1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American...

Turkish actor and director (d. 2015) 1944 – Albin Planinc, Yugoslavian chess player (d. 2008) 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American double agent 1944 – Frances...

Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. 1924 – FIDE, the worldwide governing body of chess, is founded in Paris. 1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en...

Nellie Kim, Soviet–Russian gymnast 1957 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian–Swiss chess player 1957 – Ulrich Tukur, German actor and musician 1958 – Piero Marazzo...

Florescu, Romanian general and politician (d. 1893) 1832 – Max Lange, German chess player (d. 1899) 1862 – Victoria of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1931) 1863...

Johann Gustav Droysen, German historian (d. 1884) 1818 – Adolf Anderssen, chess player (d. 1879) 1824 – John Lourie Beveridge, American politician, 16th...

Baron Raleigh, English physicist (d. 1919) 1850 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908) 1865 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician...

1996 – The computer Deep Blue first defeats Garry Kasparov in a game of chess. 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a Gay rights law. 2003 – France and Belgium...

Kim Eli, South Korean singer (U-KISS) 1991 – Le Quang Liem, Vietnamese chess player 1991 – Tristan Thompson, Canadian basketball player 1991 – Luan Santana...

April 16 – Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg April 23 – Tony Miles, English chess player April 29 – Kate Mulgrew, actress April 29 - Richard Epcar, actor...

Fairhair wins the battle of Hafrsfjord. Norway was made into one kingdom. Chess reaches Japan. The Medieval Warm Period begins. The Coptic period, at its...

courses in 43 languages. Duolingo also has two mobile-only courses for chess, music, and math (previously only on mobile, now available on desktop)....

Ashley, American composer 1931 – Anatoly Lein, Soviet–Russian–born American chess player (d. 2018) 1933 – Frank Murkowski, American politician, former Governor...

Falcon Scott, English explorer (d. 1912) 1868 – Dawid Janowski, Polish chess player (d. 1927) 1869 – Siegfried Wagner, German composer and conductor...

Rutherford, Scottish footballer (d. 2007) 1922 – Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player 1924 – Khamtai Siphandone, former President of Laos 1925 – Jack Lemmon...

a linguistic morpheme Alternate ending End of a part of a baseball game Chess endgame Ending credits Post-credits scene False ending Happy ending Multiple...

extension to Petri nets Standard algebraic notation, the most common algebraic chess notation In technology: Storage area network, a network designed to attach...

Katwe. O'Hagan, Michael (2016-10-02). "Ugandan premiere of girl's slum-to-chess-champ story". Agence France-Presse. Archived from the original on 2020-10-17...

Crafting Breakthrough Strategy, a 2000 book by Constantinos C. Markides All the Right Moves: A VLSI Architecture for Chess, a Ph.D. thesis by Carl Ebeling...

Ulyanovsk Bandy Club Volga Gambit, original name of the Benko Gambit in chess Volga class motorship, a type of Russian river passenger ship Volga radar...

Famer Marcello Pera, politician Giacomo Puccini, composer Eros Riccio, chess player Marco Rossi, athlete Renato Salvatori, actor Rolando Ugolini, Goalkeeper...

Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress October 1 – Gauri Shankar, Indian chess player October 22 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress November 18 – Nathan...

himself "Sword of Islam". He is also known to have invented the Tamerlane Chess. In 1402, his vast empire stretched from Izmir on the Aegean coast in the...

1821 – Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897) 1836 – Wilhelm Steinitz, chess player (d. 1900) 1836 – Norman Lockyer, British scientist and astronomer...

Minister of France. 1958 – 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship. 1959 – Michel Debré becomes Prime Minister of France, while...

Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931) 1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess player (d. 1913) 1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953) 1864...

Pernell Roberts, American actor (d. 2010) 1931 – Kalju Pitksaar, Estonian chess player (d. 1995) 1933 – H. D. Deve Gowda, former Prime Minister of India...

Bradley Beal, American basketball player 1994 – Anish Giri, Russian–Dutch chess player 1994 – Madeline Duggan, English actress 1994 – Hussein, Crown Prince...

– Mary Nightingale, English news presenter 1964 – Valery Salov, Russian chess player 1964 – Lenny Kravitz, American singer 1964 – Paul Okalik, Canadian...

initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin. 1897 – The first women's international chess tournament begins in London. 1913 – Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat...

Roberts, American poet and writer (d. 1941) 1882 – Oldrich Duras, Czech chess player (d. 1957) 1882 – William F. Halsey, Jr., American naval commander...

President of Guyana January 26 – Torkil Nielsen, Faroese footballer and chess player January 27 – Bridget Fonda, American actress February 10 – Francesca...

algorithm is commonly used for a computer to play two player games, such as chess, go, and checkers. The algorithm stops analyzing a move when it finds another...

Blue chess–playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world–champion chess player...

Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940) 1887 – Savielly Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956) 1888 – Owen Brewster, Governor of Maine (d. 1961) 1889...

Tanenbaum, American computer scientist 1946 – Michael Basman, English chess player 1948 – Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer, songwriter and movie...

23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer March 5 – Aislinn Paul,...

Off Samar - Taffy III at Leyte Gulf by Robert Jon Cox Leyte Gulf Naval Chess Game Archived 2020-05-03 at the Wayback Machine, a free, educational boardgame...

Matsuura, Japanese singer-songwriter 1964 – Jonathan Sarfati, Australian–born chess player, scientist, and writer 1964 – Christopher Titus, American actor,...

editor-in-chief of the magazine Tabula (ტაბულა). Bokeria's mother is the chess grandmaster Nana Alexandria. MP Bokeria Becomes Deputy Foreign Minister...

rest of his life. Among his students were: Hermann Weyl, the champion of chess Emanuel Lasker, Ernst Zermelo, and Carl Gustav Hempel. John von Neumann...

Chili Davis, Jamaican baseball player 1961 – Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player 1961 – Brian Helgeland, American screenwriter, director and movie...

Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident (d. 2014) 1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010) 1935 – Prabha Rau, Indian politician (d. 2010) 1936 – Jim...

American baseball player and broadcaster 1935 – Fridrik Olafsson, Icelandic chess player 1936 – Sal Buscema, American comic book artist 1936 – Theophanis...

Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist 1949 – Walter Browne, Australian–American chess player (d. 2015) 1949 – George Foreman, American boxer and entrepreneur...

they supported of Windows Vista and Windows 7, along with Purble Place and Chess Titans. In May 18, 2012. After release of Windows 8 Release Preview, Microsoft...

Many plectrums, or guitar picks, are made from ebony. In the past, black chess pieces were often made from ebony, with boxwood or ivory being used for...

Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1929) 1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934) 1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d...

American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official Susan Polgar, Hungarian chess player Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist "Definition of Susan...

Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1903) May 5 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911) May 6 – Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Portuguese...

1910 – David Niven, British actor (d. 1983) 1911 – Harry Golombek, British chess player (d. 1995) 1912 – Boris Chertok, Russian rocket scientist (d. 2011)...

thug who trains personnel on SPECTRE Island. Vladek Sheybal as Kronsteen: Chess grandmaster, and chief planning officer for SPECTRE. "?" (anonymous credit...

in 1949. The sports club now (2025) has four sections: men's football, chess, volleyball, and wrestling. "Magyarország helységnévtára". www.ksh.hu. Retrieved...

October 19, 2012 (191a) The Last Tough Customer - May 6, 2013 (191b) Brain's Chess Mess - May 6, 2013 (192a) Baseball Blues - May 7, 2013 (192b) Brain's Biggest...