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This is a timelineofchess. 6th century – The game chaturanga probably evolved into its current form around this time in India. 569 – A Chinese emperor...
history ofchess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation...
through time and between timelines in a similar way to how they move through ranks and files. The general gameplay of 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel...
چترنگ) is an old form ofchess, as played in the Sasanian Empire. Its origins are in the Indian game of chaturaṅga. Modern chess gradually developed from...
Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...
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...
World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion ofchess had...
Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...
of Buddhism Traditional games of South Asia Kabaddi, a game believed to have been played by Buddha Timelineofchess History of games List ofchess variants...
reference to chess in a European text can be found, as well as the first mention of a checkerboard and a queen. History ofchessTimelineofchess Melchor...
unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary ofchess problems; for a list of named opening...
World Chess Championship 2012 was a chess match between the defending World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the...
This is a list ofchess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia ofChess Variants estimates that there are well...
auspices of FIDE (the World Chess Federation). Carlsen won the match 6½–3½ after ten of the twelve scheduled games, becoming the new world chess champion...
A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...
In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that...
World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World...
November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) in Sochi, Russia. The match was decided after eleven of twelve scheduled games. On 23...
A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game ofchess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) ofchess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In...
The World Chess Championship 2016 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine...
The Encyclopaedia ofChess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...
Blindfold chess, also known as sans voir, is a form ofchess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This...
1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy...