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Bird's Opening
Bird's Opening (or the Dutch Attack) is a chess opening characterised by the move: Bird's is a standard flank opening.
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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 opening
A chess opening or simply an opening refers to the initial moves of a chess game.
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Chess strategy
Chess strategy is the aspect of chess playing concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting of goals and long-term plans for future play.
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Chess960
Chess960, also called Fischer Random Chess (originally Fischerandom), is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, announced publicly on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Chessmetrics
Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas.
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Dunst Opening
The Dunst Opening is a chess opening where White opens with the move: This fairly uncommon opening may have more names than any other: it is also called the Heinrichsen Opening, Baltic Opening, van Geet's Opening, Sleipnir Opening, Kotrč's Opening, Meštrović Opening, Romanian Opening, Queen's Knight Attack, Queen's Knight Opening, Millard's Opening, Knight on the Left, and (in German) der Linksspringer.
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Exchange variation
In chess, an exchange variation is a type of opening in which there is an early, voluntary exchange of pawns or pieces.
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First-move advantage
First-move advantage may refer to.
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First-player and second-player win
In game theory, a two-player deterministic perfect information turn-based game is a first-player-win if with perfect play the first player to move can always force a win.
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Four Knights Game
The Four Knights Game is a chess opening that begins with the moves: This is the most common sequence, but the knights may in any order to reach the same position.
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Frank Marshall (chess player)
Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
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Game balance
In game design, balance is the concept and the practice of tuning a game's rules, usually with the goal of preventing any of its component systems from being ineffective or otherwise undesirable when compared to their peers.
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Glossary of chess
This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order.
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Initiative (chess)
Initiative in a chess position belongs to the player who can make threats that cannot be ignored.
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Inverted Hungarian Opening
The Inverted Hungarian Opening or Tayler Opening is an uncommon chess opening that starts with the moves: It is so-named because the position of White's bishop on e2 resembles that of Black's bishop on e7 in the Hungarian Defense.
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Joseph Bertin
Captain Joseph Bertin (1690s – c. 1736) was one of the first authors to write about the game of chess.
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Joseph Henry Blackburne
Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924), nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century.
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Kasparov versus the World
Kasparov versus the World was a game of chess played in 1999 over the Internet.
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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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Outline of chess
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid).
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Owen's Defence
Owen's Defence (also known as the Queen's Fianchetto Defence or Greek Defense) is an uncommon chess opening defined by the moves: By playing 1...b6, Black prepares to fianchetto the where it will participate in the battle for the.
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Ponziani Opening
The Ponziani Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves: It is one of the oldest chess openings, having been discussed in the literature by 1497.
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Solving chess
Solving chess means finding an optimal strategy for playing chess, i.e. one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force a victory, or both can force a draw (see Solved game).
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Traité des Amateurs
Traité des Amateurs is the short name of the celebrated book Traité Théorique et Pratique du jeu des Echecs, par une Société des Amateurs, published in France in 1786 and subsequently translated into German and English.
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Weaver W. Adams
Weaver Warren Adams (April 28, 1901 – January 6, 1963) was an American chess master, author, and opening theoretician.
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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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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess