Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia - Chess
Chess is a board game and mental-skill game for two players. It is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks) and eight column...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Chess Variants
For more details on this topic, see Chess variant. Chess variants are forms of chess where the game is played with a different board, spe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Computer Chess
Main article: Computer chess Serious work on machines that play chess has been going on since 1890, and chess-playing computer programs f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Gameplay
Chess - Rules of chess. See Rules of chess for some important details not covered here. When a game of chess begins, one player control...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - History
Chess - Origins of chess. Main article: Origins of chess Many countries claim to have invented the chess game in some incipient form....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Table: Encyclopedia - Chess Table
A chess table is a table built with features to make it useful for playing the game of chess. A chess board is usually integral to the ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Variant: Encyclopedia - Chess Variant
A chess variant is any game derived from, related to or similar to chess in at least one respect. The difference from chess can include o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess And Mathematics: Encyclopedia - Chess And Mathematics
Chess and mathematics have been pursued intellectually for centuries by many researchers and scientists, especially mathematicians. Natur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess And Music: Encyclopedia - Chess And Music
Chess and music has been a favored recreation for centuries by many researchers and artists, especially musicians. The following are indi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blitz Chess: Encyclopedia - Blitz Chess
Blitz chess (also known as speed chess or blitzkrieg chess) is a game of chess where each side is given very little time to make all of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Master: Encyclopedia - Chess Master
A chess master is a chess player of such skill that he can nearly always beat players of the general strength found in chess clubs, who t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Club: Encyclopedia - Chess Club
Chess clubs are clubs with the intent of getting together and playing chess with others. There are chess clubs associated with schools an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bullet Chess: Encyclopedia - Bullet Chess
Bullet chess is a very fast game of chess where each side only has less than 3 minutes to complete all of their moves. The Internet Chess...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Terminology: Encyclopedia - Chess Terminology
This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order. Some of these have their own pages, like fork and pin. For a list ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Libraries: Encyclopedia - Chess Libraries
Due to mergers and acquisitions in recent years there are only two chess libraries of major significance and only a few other specialist ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Correspondence Chess: Encyclopedia - Correspondence Chess
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence ches server, thro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess In Europe: Encyclopedia - Chess In Europe
The exact location, time and method of the entry of chess into western Europe is unknown, however linguistic evidence suggest that it was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Chess: Encyclopedia - Computer Chess
The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century. Around 1769, the chess playing automaton called The Tu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Puzzle: Encyclopedia - Chess Puzzle
The longstanding popularity of chess has paved the way for a rich tradition of chess-related puzzles and composed problems. These puzzles...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Chess: Encyclopedia - Battle Chess
Battle Chess is a computer game version of chess released for the PC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64, Amiga, CD32, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Symbols In Unicode: Encyclopedia - Chess Symbols In Unicode
Here are the symbols of chess pieces in Unicode. If you cannot see any chess symbols in the above table, take a look at the picture below...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Musical: Encyclopedia - Chess Musical
Chess is a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Problem: Encyclopedia - Chess Problem
A chess problem, formally called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, presenting the sol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Compensation Chess: Encyclopedia - Compensation Chess
In chess, compensation refers to various (typically positional) advantages a player has in exchange for a (typically material) disadvanta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Piece: Encyclopedia - Chess Piece
In chess, each player has one of two equivalent sets of pieces of different colors. Each set has six types of pieces: 1 King 1 Queen 2 R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Olympiad: Encyclopedia - Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been officially organised by FIDE since 1927 and takes place every second year. Prior to Wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Circe Chess: Encyclopedia - Circe Chess
Circe chess (or just circe) is a chess variant in which captured pieces are reborn on their starting positions as soon as they are captur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Handicap: Encyclopedia - Chess Handicap
Handicap in chess is a way to equal chances for players of different strengths. There are two kinds of handicaps in chess: material handi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop Chess: Encyclopedia - Bishop Chess
A bishop (♗♝) is a piece in the board game of chess. Each player begins the game with two bishops, one light-squared and one dark-sq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Tactic: Encyclopedia - Chess Tactic
In chess, a tactic refers to a short sequence of moves which limits the opponent's options and which results in tangible gain. Tactics ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Game Collection: Encyclopedia - Chess Game Collection
The most common types of chess game collections are collected games of a single player (e.g. My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alexande...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blindfold Chess: Encyclopedia - Blindfold Chess
Blindfold chess is a way to play chess, whereby play is conducted without the players having sight of the positions of the pieces, or any...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess As Mental Training: Encyclopedia - Chess As Mental Training
Teaching and playing the game of chess has often been advocated as a form of mental training. Benjamin Franklin, in his article The Moral...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess In Early Literature: Encyclopedia - Chess In Early Literature
One of the most common ways for chess historians to trace when the board game chess entered a country is to look at the literature of tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Records In Chess: Encyclopedia - World Records In Chess
Some World records in the game of chess (as played in serious tournaments): World records in chess - Longest game. The longest tournamen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Strategy And Tactics: Encyclopedia - Chess Strategy And Tactics
"Strategy requires thought; tactics requires observation." - Max Euwe In chess, tactics are short-term maneuvers which serve to gain a qu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Opening: Encyclopedia - Chess Opening
The first moves of a chess game are the opening moves, collectively referred to as the opening. Recognized sequences of opening moves are...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Algebraic Chess Notation: Encyclopedia - Algebraic Chess Notation
Algebraic chess notation is the method used today by all competition chess organizations and most books, magazines, and newspapers to rec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Columns In Newspapers: Encyclopedia - Chess Columns In Newspapers
The earliest known chess column appeared in the Lancet in 1823, but due to lack of popularity disappeared after less than a year. The fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Correspondence Chess Server: Encyclopedia - Correspondence Chess Server
A correspondence chess server is arguably the most convenient form of correspondence chess. Instead of players directly emailing moves to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Chess Championship: Encyclopedia - World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Both men and women are eligible to conte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Records: Encyclopedia - Chess Records
Chess Records was an American record label, based in Chicago, Illinois. It was run by the brothers Leonard Chess and Phil Chess. One of t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chess: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Chess
CHESS Several metaphysicians (Crowley, Shallis, Carroll, etc.) have suggested that chess is really a medieval computer simulacrum, a m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess In Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess In Europe - Chess In Britain
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Jersey and Guernsey all have separate national chess federations, and send their own teams to internat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Puzzle: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Puzzle - Chess Problems
The most common chess puzzle takes the form of checkmate in N moves. Such puzzles may derive from studies which were intended to help a s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Notation: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Notation - Chess Notation For Recording A Game Of Chess
Chess move notation should describe the pieces involved, the end (and for clarity start) location, and any resulting effect (capture, che...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Puzzle: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Puzzle - Chess Miner
One of the many types of chess puzzles is to deduce the location of invisible pieces based on information about how many times certain sq...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Variant: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Variant - Chess-derived Games
These chess variants are derived from chess by changing board, rules or adding new pieces. Chess variant - Chess with different starting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Variant: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Variant - Chess-derived Games
These chess variants are derived from chess by changing board, rules or adding new pieces. Chess variant - Chess with different starting...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer Chess - Solving Chess
Some two-player board games have been solved; that is, the "perfect" strategy has been devised. As the number of possible chess positions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer Chess - Solving Chess
The number of board positions that a chess board may be placed in is astronomical- more than the number of atoms in the universe. However...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Piece: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Piece - Chess Sets
The variation of designs available is broad, from highly abstract representations to themed designs such as those which emulate the drawi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bullet Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Bullet Chess - Definition
The Internet Chess Club (ICC)[1] and Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)[2] definition of bullet/lightning chess is any game where the expe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Correspondence Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Correspondence Chess - Structure Of Correspondence Chess
Correspondence chess differs from over-the-board play in several respects. While in OTB chess only one game is played at a time (the exce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Correspondence Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Correspondence Chess - Current Branches Of Correspondence Chess
There are two main branches of correspondence chess emerging in the chess world today, differentiated primarily by the involvement of an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Origins Of Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Origins Of Chess - Origins Of Chess Pieces
Origins of chess - Chess-like pieces. Ever since the earliest times, and especially with regards to the most ancient of preliterate soc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advanced Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Advanced Chess - Advanced Chess Strengths
It has been stressed that the strength of an Advanced Chess player does not come from any of the components of the human-computer team, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Origins Of Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Origins Of Chess - Further Development Of Chess
Chess eventually spread westward to Europe and eastward as far as Japan, spawning variants as it went. From India it migrated to Persia, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Chess - Pieces
The names of the pieces and rules for movement are as follows: The King moves and captures like a standard chess King. The objective of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Musical: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Musical - The Chess In Concert Album
This is a recording of a concert performance (not a full stage production) in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1994. The songs and lyrics are largel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Baroque Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Baroque Chess - Description
Baroque chess is usually played on a standard 8x8 chessboard with the standard Staunton design of chesspieces (not human figurines as has...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer Chess - The Future Of Computer Chess?
Many observers extrapolate that computers will consistently beat the best human players by perhaps 2010, and then go on to exceed their a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gothic Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Gothic Chess - Openings
In regular chess, the way in which games start out is loosely referred to as "Opening Theory." Chess openings are typically named after t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advanced Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Advanced Chess - History
The former world champion grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who has recently retired from competitive chess but is still considered by many the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Capablanca Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Capablanca Chess - Variants Inspired By Capablanca Chess
Capablanca chess has inspired a number of chess variants, the most popular of which are Grand chess and Gothic chess. Other attempts to f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - King Chess - Movement
A king can move one square in any direction (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally). The exception to this rule is that it may not mov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Problem - Abbreviations
For reasons of space and internationality, various abbreviations are often used in chess problem journals to indicate a problem's stipula...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer Chess - Motivation
The prime motivations for computerized chess playing have been solo entertainment (allowing players to practice and to amuse themselves w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Problem - Titles
Just as in over-the-board play, the titles International Grandmaster, International Master and FIDE Master are awarded by FIDE via the Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rules Of Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Rules Of Chess - The Board
Chess is played on a square board that is divided into 64 squares (8-by-8) of alternating color (32 "white", 32 "black"), which is very s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colour Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Colour Chess - Rules
The goal The most efficient clearing of the board. Games are played with a co-operative mindset while tournaments can give them a compet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rules Of Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Rules Of Chess - Gameplay
The game starts with determining colors. This can be done by mutual agreement or by random means such as coin flipping. A common method i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Problem: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Problem - Tournaments
Various tournaments (or tourneys) exist for both the composition and solving of chess problems. Chess problem - Composition tournaments....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hydra Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Hydra Chess - Tournaments
In July 2002, Brutus finished 3rd in the World Computer Chess Championship in Maastricht, the Netherlands. It drew two games and lost one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fischer Random Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Fischer Random Chess - Playing Fischer Random Chess
Examining openings for Fischer Random Chess is in its infancy, but opening fundamentals still apply. These include: protect the King, con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Computer Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Computer Chess - Computer Chess Implementation Issues
Developers of chess-playing computer system must decide on a number of fundamental implementation issues. These include board representa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bughouse Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Bughouse Chess - Rules
Team members sit beside each other playing opposite colors. Each player plays his opponent as in a standard chess game except that when p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sacrifice Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Sacrifice Chess - Examples
Avoiding loss. Black played 1...Qxg3? and White drew with 2. Qg8+! Kxg8 (on any other move black will get mated) 3. Rxg7+!. White intends...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fairy Chess Piece: Encyclopedia Ii - Fairy Chess Piece - Classification Of Fairy Chess Pieces
It is extemely difficult to classify fairy chess pieces at all, as more and more are invented by chess composers. A specialized solving p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fairy Chess Piece: Encyclopedia Ii - Fairy Chess Piece - Classification Of Fairy Chess Pieces
It is extremely difficult to classify fairy chess pieces at all, as more and more are invented by chess composers. A specialized solving ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Notable Chess Players: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Notable Chess Players - Chess Players By Vocation
The people in this list are men and women who are primarily known as chess players. List of notable chess players - A. Gerald Abrahams...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pawn Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Pawn Chess - Strategy
Pawns are the source of nearly all of the strategic depth of chess. If other pieces are temporarily badly placed, they can usually be reg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pawn Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Pawn Chess - Movement
Pawns are unusual in movement and use. Unlike all the other pieces, pawns may not move backwards. Normally a pawn moves by advancing a si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess Opening: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess Opening - Classification Of Chess Openings
Various classification schemes for chess openings are in use. The ECO scheme is given at list of chess openings. The beginning chess posi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kriegspiel Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Kriegspiel Chess - Rules
The game is played with 3 boards, each player and the umpire have own board with pieces. Each opponent knows exact position only of her o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Martian Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Martian Chess - Rules
Martian Chess - Initial setup. Each player starts with nine pieces: three small, three medium, and three large. The color of the pieces...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Punctuation Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Punctuation Chess - Other Symbols
Some annotators put together even more question marks and exclamation marks. For example "????" might indicate an outright horrid move, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Origins Of Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Origins Of Chess - Other Theories
Many of the early works on chess gave a legendary history of the invention of chess, often associating it with Nard (a game of the tables...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Three-dimensional Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Three-dimensional Chess - Tri-dimensional Chess
Probably the most familiar 3D chess variant to the general public in the early 21st century is the game of Tri-Dimensional Chess (Tri-D C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Chess Championship: Encyclopedia Ii - World Chess Championship - History Of The World Chess Championship
World Chess Championship - Three pioneering titans Pre-1900. The first match proclaimed by the players as for the world championship wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Martian Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Martian Chess - Strategy
Capturing with a queen often allows the opponent to immediately recapture, leading to a back-and-forth battle until one player runs out o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Chess: Meaning Of Dreams About Chess
  Chess To dream of playing chess, denotes stagnation of business, dull companions, and poor health. To dream that you lose at...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chess Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary - Chess
Chess Dream Symbols: A need to thoroughly think things through. The game of life. Are you the pawn or king?   (Source: Myths - Dr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Chess And Education
There is a flourishing movement to use the game of chess as a tool to aid the intellectual development of young people. Encouraged by the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Modern Chess
Early on, the pieces in European chess had limited movement; bishops could only move by jumping exactly two spaces diagonally (similar to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Computer Chess
Serious work on machines that play chess has been going on since 1890, and chess-playing computer programs featured prominently in the ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Introduction
Chess is not a game of chance; it is based solely on tactics and strategy. Nevertheless, the game is so complex that not even the best pl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - History
Main article: Origins of chess Many countries claim to have invented the chess game in some incipient form. The most commonly held belief...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Gameplay
Chess - Rules of chess. Main article: Rules of chess When a game of chess begins, one player controls the sixteen white pieces while ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chess: Encyclopedia Ii - Chess - Introduction
Chess is not a game of chance; it is based solely on tactics and strategy. Nevertheless, the game is so complex that not even the best pl...   » Read the article