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Adolf Anderssen
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch (Ārons Nimcovičs, Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich; born Aron Niemzowitsch; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer.
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Check (chess)
A check is a condition in chess, shogi, and xiangqi that occurs when a player's king (or general in xiangqi) is under threat of on their opponent's next turn.
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Checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is a game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with) and there is no way to remove the threat.
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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 notation
Chess notations are various systems that have developed to record either the moves made in a game of chess or the position of pieces on a chessboard.
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Chess problem
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved.
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Discovered attack
In chess, a discovered attack is an attack revealed when one piece moves out of the way of another.
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En passant
En passant (in passing) is a move in chess.
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Evergreen Game
The Evergreen Game is a famous chess game, won by Adolf Anderssen against Jean Dufresne in 1852.
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Fairy chess piece
A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some chess problems.
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Grasshopper (chess)
The grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along ranks, files, and diagonals (as an ordinary queen) but only by hopping over another piece at any distance to the square immediately closest.
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Jean Dufresne
Jean Dufresne (14 February 1829 – 13 April 1893) was a German chess player and chess composer.
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List of chess variants
A chess variant (or unorthodox chess) is a game "related to, derived from, or inspired by chess".
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My System
My System (Mein System) is a book on chess theory written by Aron Nimzowitsch.
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Nightrider (chess)
A nightrider (also known as a knightmare or unicorn, though the latter sometimes also means the bishop+nightrider compound) is a fairy chess piece that can move any number of steps as a knight in the same direction.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Queen sacrifice
In chess, a queen sacrifice is a move giving up a queen in return for tactical or positional compensation.
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Richard Réti
Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889, Bösing, now Pezinok – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies.
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Savielly Tartakower
Ksawery Tartakower (also known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887–1956) was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster.
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Smothered mate
In chess, a smothered mate is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because he is surrounded (or smothered) by his own pieces.
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The Oxford Companion to Chess
The Oxford Companion to Chess is a reference book on the game of chess, written by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.
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Xiangqi
Xiangqi, also called Chinese chess, is a strategy board game for two players.
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References
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