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73 relations: Arshak Petrosian, Bernhard Horwitz, Bishop (chess), Bobby Fischer, Candidates Tournament, Check (chess), Chess, Chess endgame, Chess Life, Chess middlegame, Chess piece, Chess problem, Chessboard, Computer chess, David Bronstein, Draw (chess), Draw by agreement, Edward Lasker, Emanuel Lasker, Endgame study, Endgame tablebase, Everyman Chess, FIDE titles, Fifty-move rule, Fork (chess), Gambit Publications, Giambattista Lolli, Glossary of chess, Grandmaster (chess), Gregory Serper, Hans Ree, HIARCS, Hikaru Nakamura, Ilya Smirin, József Pintér, John Nunn, Josef Kling, King (chess), Knight (chess), Lajos Portisch, Lubomir Kavalek, Luděk Pachman, Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, New In Chess, New York City, Norman T. Whitaker, Opposite-colored bishops endgame, Pal Benko, Paul Keres, ..., Pawn (chess), Perpetual check, Promotion (chess), Queen (chess), Rook (chess), Rook and pawn versus rook endgame, Sacrifice (chess), Schilde, Stalemate, Swindle (chess), The exchange (chess), The Oxford Companion to Chess, U.S. Chess Championship, University of Ljubljana, USSR Chess Championship, Valery Salov, Viktor Korchnoi, Vlastimil Hort, Wijk aan Zee, World Chess Championship, Wrong bishop, Wrong rook pawn, Zugzwang. Expand index (23 more) »
Arshak Petrosian
Arshak B. Petrosian (Արշակ Պետրոսյան; born December 16, 1953) is an Armenian chess player and National Coach.
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Bernhard Horwitz
Bernhard Horwitz (1807 in Neustrelitz – 1885) was a German chess master and chess writer.
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Bishop (chess)
A bishop (♗,♝) is a piece in the board game of chess.
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Bobby Fischer
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.
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Candidates Tournament
The Candidates Tournament is a chess tournament organized by FIDE, chess' international governing body, since 1950, as the final contest to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship.
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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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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 Life
The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids) are the official magazines published by the United States Chess Federation (US Chess).
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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 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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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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Chessboard
A chessboard is the type of checkerboard used in the board game chess, consisting of 64 squares (eight rows and eight columns).
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Computer chess
Computer chess is a game of computer architecture encompassing hardware and software capable of playing chess autonomously without human guidance.
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David Bronstein
David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess grandmaster, who narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951.
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Draw (chess)
In chess, a draw is the result of a game ending in a tie.
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Draw by agreement
In chess, a draw by (mutual) agreement is the outcome of a game due to the agreement of both players to a draw.
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Edward Lasker
Edward Lasker (December 3, 1885 – March 25, 1981) was a German-American chess and Go player.
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Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921).
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Endgame study
In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a composed position—that is, one that has been made up rather than one from an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find the essentially unique way for one side (usually White) to win or draw, as stipulated, against any moves the other side plays.
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Endgame tablebase
An endgame tablebase is a computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of chess endgame positions.
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Everyman Chess
Everyman Chess, formerly known as Cadogan Chess, is a major publisher of books and CDs about chess.
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FIDE titles
The World Chess Federation, FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), awards several performance-based titles to chess players, up to and including the highly prized Grandmaster title.
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Fifty-move rule
The fifty-move rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty moves (for this purpose a "move" consists of a player completing their turn followed by the opponent completing their turn).
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Fork (chess)
In chess, a fork is a tactic whereby a single piece makes two or more direct attacks simultaneously.
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Gambit Publications
Gambit Publications is a major publisher of chess books.
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Giambattista Lolli
Giambattista Lolli (1698 in Nonantola, Italy – 4 June 1769) was an Italian chess player.
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Glossary of chess
This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order.
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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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Gregory Serper
Gregory Serper (Григорий Юрьевич Серпер) (born September 14, 1969) is a Grandmaster of chess.
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Hans Ree
Hans Ree (born 15 September 1944 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer.
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HIARCS
HIARCS is a proprietary UCI chess engine developed by Mark Uniacke.
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Hikaru Nakamura
is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster.
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Ilya Smirin
Ilya (or Ilia) Yulievich Smirin (איליה יוליביץ' סמירין; Илья Юльевич Смирин; born January 21, 1968, in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR) is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.
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József Pintér
József Pintér (born 9 November 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster and chess writer.
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John Nunn
John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955 in London) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician.
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Josef Kling
Josef Kling (19 March 1811 – 1 December 1876), also found in English-language sources as Joseph Kling, was a German chess master and chess composer.
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King (chess)
In chess, the king (♔,♚) is the most important piece.
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Knight (chess)
The knight (♘ ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, representing a knight (armored cavalry).
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Lajos Portisch
Lajos Portisch (born 4 April 1937) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the "Hungarian Botvinnik".
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Lubomir Kavalek
Lubomir (Lubosh) Kavalek (Lubomír Kaválek, born August 9, 1943) is a Czech-American chess player.
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Luděk Pachman
Luděk Pachman (German: Ludek Pachmann, May 11, 1924 in Bělá pod Bezdězem, today Czech Republic – March 6, 2003 in Passau, Germany) was a Czechoslovak-German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and political activist.
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Mikhail Botvinnik
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник,; – May 5, 1995) was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
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Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Mihails Tāls; Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal,; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
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New In Chess
New In Chess (NIC) is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors International Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Norman T. Whitaker
Norman Tweed Whitaker (April 9, 1890 – May 20, 1975) was an American International Master of chess, a lawyer, a civil servant, and a chess author.
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Opposite-colored bishops endgame
The opposite-colored bishops endgame is a chess endgame in which each side has a single bishop, but the bishops reside on opposite-colored squares on the chessboard, thus cannot attack or block each other.
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Pal Benko
Pal Benko (Benkő Pál; born July 14, 1928) is a Hungarian–American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
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Paul Keres
Paul Keres (January 7, 1916June 5, 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer.
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Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙,♟) is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest.
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Perpetual check
In the game of chess, perpetual check is a situation in which one player can force a draw by an unending series of checks.
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Promotion (chess)
Promotion is a chess rule that requires a pawn that reaches its eighth to be immediately replaced by the player's choice of a queen, knight, rook, or bishop of the same.
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Queen (chess)
The queen (♕,♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess, able to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
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Rook (chess)
A rook (♖,♜) is a piece in the strategy board game of chess.
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Rook and pawn versus rook endgame
The rook and pawn versus rook endgame is of fundamental importance to chess endgames,,,, and has been widely studied,. Precise play is usually required in these positions.
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Sacrifice (chess)
In chess, a sacrifice is a move giving up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms.
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Schilde
Schilde is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
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Stalemate
Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move.
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Swindle (chess)
In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss.
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The exchange (chess)
The exchange in chess refers to a situation in which one player loses a minor piece (i.e. a bishop or knight) but captures the opponent's rook.
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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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U.S. Chess Championship
The U.S. Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national chess champion of the United States.
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University of Ljubljana
The University of Ljubljana (Univerza v Ljubljani, acronym: UL, Universitas Labacensis) is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia.
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USSR Chess Championship
The USSR Chess Championship was played from 1921 to 1991.
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Valery Salov
Valery Salov (born May 26, 1964 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was once ranked the third best player in the world.
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Viktor Korchnoi
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (p; 23 March 1931 – 6 June 2016) was a Soviet (until 1976) and Swiss (since 1994) chess grandmaster and writer.
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Vlastimil Hort
Vlastimil Hort (born 12 January 1944) is a Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster.
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Wijk aan Zee
Wijk aan Zee is a small town on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk in the province of North Holland of the Netherlands.
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World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
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Wrong bishop
The wrong bishop is a situation in chess endgame when a bishop on the other color of square of the chessboard would either win a game instead of draw or salvage a draw from an inferior position; in other words, a bishop is unable to guard squares of the other color.
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Wrong rook pawn
In chess endgames with a bishop, a pawn that is a may be the wrong rook pawn.
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Zugzwang
Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move") is a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(chess)
