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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Chess endgame
In chess and chess-like games, the endgame (or end game or ending) is the stage of the game when few pieces are left on the board.
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Chess middlegame
The middlegame in chess refers to the portion of the game in between the opening and the endgame.
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Chess opening
A chess opening or simply an opening refers to the initial moves of a chess game.
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Chess piece
A chess piece, or chessman, is any of the six different movable objects used on a chessboard to play the game of chess.
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Dover Publications
Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche.
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First-move advantage in chess
The first-move advantage in chess is the inherent advantage of the player (White) who makes the first move in chess.
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Gambit
A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning "to trip") is a chess opening in which a player, more often White, sacrifices, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position.
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Grandmaster (chess)
The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.
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Larry Evans (chess grandmaster)
Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist.
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Pawn structure
In chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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Tempo (chess)
In chess and other chess-like games, tempo is a "turn" or single move.
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White and Black in chess
In chess, the player who moves first is referred to as "White" and the player who moves second is referred to as "Black".
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