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Rules of chess

Index Rules of chess

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) are rules governing the play of the game of chess. [1]

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Alice Chess

Alice Chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration to the standard rules of chess.

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Almost Chess

Almost Chess is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1977.

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Atomic chess

Atomic chess is a chess variant.

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Balbo's Game

Balbo's Game is a chess variant invented by M. G. Balbo in 1974.

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Bare king

In chess and chess variants, a bare king (or lone king) is a game position where one player has only the king remaining (i.e. all the player's other pieces have been).

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Beirut Chess

Beirut Chess is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1992.

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Bernat Fenollar

Bernat Fenollar, also Mossèn (Bernat de) Fenollar (Valencian Community, 1438 – Valencia, 28 February 1516) was a poet, cleric and chess player from Valencia, Spain.

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Berolina chess

Berolina chess is a chess variant using a popular fairy chess piece called the Berolina pawn (also known as Berlin pawn or Anti-pawn).

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Bishop (chess)

A bishop (♗,♝) is a piece in the board game of chess.

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Blunder (chess)

In chess, a blunder is a very bad move.

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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a chess puzzle book written by Bobby Fischer and co-authored by Stuart Margulies and Don Mosenfelder.

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Bughouse chess

Bughouse chess (also known as Exchange chess, Siamese chess, Tandem chess, Transfer chess, Double bughouse, Cross chess, Swap chess or simply bughouse or bug) is a popular chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two.

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Castling

Castling is a move in the game of chess involving a player's king and either of the player's original rooks.

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Chaturanga

Chaturanga (चतुरङ्ग), or catur for short, is an ancient Indian strategy game which is commonly theorized to be the common ancestor of the board games chess, shogi, sittuyin, makruk, xiangqi and janggi.

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Cheating in chess

Cheating in chess refers to a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other unethical behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team.

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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 (poem)

Chess (Szachy) is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski, first published in 1564 or 1565.

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Chess in the arts

Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages.

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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 Player's Chronicle

The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess.

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Chess puzzle

A chess puzzle is a puzzle in which knowledge of the pieces and rules of chess is used to solve logically a chess-related problem.

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Chess tournament

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team.

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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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Chess960 numbering scheme

The game Chess960, played with conventional chess pieces and rules, starts with a random selection of one of 960 positions for the pieces.

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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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Chessence

Chessence is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1989.

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Colossus Chess

Colossus Chess is a series of chess-playing computer programs developed by Martin Bryant, commercially available for various home computers in the 1980s.

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Crazyhouse

Crazyhouse (also known as drop chess, mad chess, reinforcement chess, turnabout chess and schizo-chess) is a chess variant similar to bughouse chess, but with only two players.

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Cubic Chess

Cubic Chess is a chess variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec beginning with an early version (named Echos) in 1977.

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De ludo scachorum

De ludo scachorum (On the Game of Chess), also known as Schifanoia ("Boredom Dodger"), is a Latin-language manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance.

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Dice chess

Dice chess can refer to a number of chess variants in which dice are used to alter gameplay; specifically that the moves available to each player are determined by rolling a pair of ordinary six-sided dice.

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Dragonfly (chess variant)

Dragonfly (also known as Shuttle Chess or Bird Chess) is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling in 1983.

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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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En passant

En passant (in passing) is a move in chess.

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Fairy chess

Fairy chess is the area of chess composition in which there are some changes to the rules of chess.

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Falcon-Hunter Chess

Falcon-Hunter Chess (also called Schultz's Chess, One-Way Chess, or Meso Chess) is a chess variant invented by Karl Schultz in 1943 employing the two fairy chess pieces falcon and hunter.

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FIDE

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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FIDE Grand Prix 2008–10

The FIDE Grand Prix 2008–10 was a series of six chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification for the World Chess Championship 2012.

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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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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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Francesc de Castellví i de Vic

Francesc de Castellví i de Vic (also Franci or Francisco de Castellví y Vic, died September 6, 1506) was a poet, nobleman, and politician from Valencia, Spain.

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Fritz (chess)

Fritz is a German chess program developed by Vasik Rajlich (engine) and ChessBase (user interface).

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Göttingen manuscript

The Göttingen manuscript is the earliest known work devoted entirely to modern chess.

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Glossary of chess

This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order.

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Glossary of chess problems

This page explains commonly used terms in chess problems in alphabetical order.

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Helpmate

A helpmate is a type of chess problem in which both sides cooperate in order to achieve the goal of checkmating Black.

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History of games

The history of games dates to the ancient human past.

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Hostage Chess

Hostage Chess is a chess variant invented by John Leslie in 1997.

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Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati

Hridayeshwar Singh Bhati (born 3 September 2002) is an Indian student who, at the age of 9 and with his father's assistance, invented a six-player variant of chess.

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Indian chess

Indian chess is the name given to a variation of chess played in India in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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International Arbiter

In chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches.

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International Braille Chess Association

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

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Jacob Sarratt

Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772 – 6 November 1819) was one of the top English chess players of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Joke chess problem

Joke chess problems are puzzles in chess that use humor as a primary or secondary element.

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Kenneth Harkness

Kenneth Harkness (byname of Stanley Edgar; November 12, 1896 – October 4, 1972) was a chess organizer.

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Knightmare Chess

Knightmare Chess is a fantasy chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games (SJG) in 1996.

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Langue and parole

Langue (French, meaning "language") and parole (meaning "speaking") are linguistic terms distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure in his Course in General Linguistics.

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Laws of the Game

The Laws of the Game may refer to the codified rules of a number of different sports.

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Legan chess

Legan chess (or Legan's game) is a chess variant invented by L. Legan in 1913.

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Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez

Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez (translation: Book of the liberal invention and art of the game of chess) is one of the first books published about modern chess in Europe, after Pedro Damiano's 1512 book.

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Lichess

Lichess is an Internet chess server.

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Los Alamos chess

Los Alamos chess (or Anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops.

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Losing Chess

Losing Chess (also known as Antichess, the Losing Game, Giveaway Chess, Suicide Chess, Killer Chess, Must-Kill, Take-All Chess, Capture Chess or Losums) is one of the most popular chess variants.

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Luis Ramírez de Lucena

Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 – c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player who published the first still-existing chess book.

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Madrasi chess

Madrasi chess is a chess variant invented in 1979 by Abdul Jabbar Karwatkar.

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Mir Sultan Khan

Malik Mir Sultan Khan (1905 – 25 April 1966) was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia.

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Modern Benoni

The Modern Benoni is a chess opening that begins with the moves 1.

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Modern Chess (chess variant)

Modern Chess is a chess variant played on a 9×9 board.

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Moheschunder Bannerjee

Moheschunder Bannerjee (Bengali: মহেশচন্দ্র বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, fl. 1850) or Mahesh Chandra Banerjee was a strong chess player from Bengal, many hundred of whose games survive through the writings of John Cochrane, who regularly played Bannerjee between 1848 and 1860, during Cochrane's tenure at the Calcutta bar.

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Monika Soćko

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Narcís Vinyoles

Narcís Vinyoles, also Narciso Viñoles (between 1442 and 1447 – 1517) was a poet, lawyer and politician from Valencia, Spain.

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Nilüfer Çınar Çorlulu

Nilüfer Çinar Çorlulu (born Nilüfer İpek Çınar in 1962) is a Turkish Woman International Master (WIM) of chess.

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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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Parallel Worlds Chess

Parallel Worlds Chess is a three-dimensional chess variant invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger in the 1980s.

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Paul Truong

Paul Truong (born June 2, 1965) is an American chess player, trainer, promoter, and organizer.

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Pedro Damiano

Pedro Damiano (in Portuguese, Pedro Damião; Damiano is the Italian form, much like the Latin Damianus) was a Portuguese chess player who lived from 1480 to 1544.

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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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Pietro Carrera

Pietro Carrera, (July 12, 1573 – September 18, 1647) was a chess player, historian, priest and Italian author, born in Sicily, in Militello in Val di Catania (Province of Catania), located in the Valley of Noto; here he grew up in the old colony of San Vito.

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Portal Chess

Portal Chess is a chess variant which uses at least two fairy pieces called portals (or less commonly portholes).

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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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Really Bad Chess

Really Bad Chess (stylized as really bad chess) is a mobile video game developed by Zach Gage.

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Rollerball (chess variant)

Rollerball is a chess variant invented by Jean-Louis Cazaux in 1998.

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Skewer (chess)

In chess, a skewer is an attack upon two pieces in a line and is similar to a pin.

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Software for handling chess problems

This article covers computer software designed to solve, or assist people in creating or solving, chess problems – puzzles in which pieces are laid out as in a game of chess, and may at times be based upon real games of chess that have been played and recorded, but whose aim is to challenge the problemist to find a solution to the posed situation, within the rules of chess, rather than to play games of chess from the beginning against an opponent.

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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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Staunton chess set

The Staunton chess set is composed of a particular style of chess pieces used to play the game of chess.

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Stratomic

Stratomic is a chess variant invented by Robert Montay-Marsais in 1972.

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The Luzhin Defence

The Luzhin Defence is a 2000 film directed by Marleen Gorris, starring John Turturro and Emily Watson.

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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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ThreeChess

ThreeChess is a three-player chess variant with an associated online-play website.

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Threefold repetition

In chess and some other abstract strategy games, the threefold repetition rule (also known as repetition of position) states that a player can claim a draw if the same position occurs three times, or will occur after their next move, with the same player to move.

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Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

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Time control

A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed.

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Time trouble

In chess played with a time control, time trouble, time pressure, or its German translation Zeitnot, is the situation where a player has little time to complete the required moves.

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Touch-move rule

The touch-move rule in chess specifies that, if a player deliberately touches a piece on the board when it is his turn to move, then he must move or capture that piece if it is legal to do so.

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Troy (chess variant)

Troy is a chess variant inspired by the Trojan War.

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V. R. Parton

Vernon Rylands Parton (2 October 1897 – 31 December 1974) was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor, his most renowned variant being Alice Chess.

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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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Wildebeest Chess

Wildebeest Chess is a chess variant created by R. Wayne Schmittberger in 1987.

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Wolf Chess

Wolf Chess is a chess variant invented by Dr.

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Women's World Chess Championship 2008

The Women's World Chess Championship 2008 took place from August 28, 2008 to September 18 in Nalchik, Russia.

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ZX81

The ZX81 is a home computer that was produced by Sinclair Research and manufactured in Dundee, Scotland by Timex Corporation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess

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