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  2. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    Staunton style chess pieces.Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. ...

  3. Camel (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The camel by itself is worth about two pawns (appreciably less than a knight) because of its colorboundedness and lack of sufficient freedom of movement on an 8×8 board. . However, a king, a bishop, and a camel can force checkmate on a bare king, assuming that the bishop and the camel are not on the same square color; [4] a king, a knight, and a camel can usually force checkmate on a bare ...

  4. 17-animal inheritance puzzle - Wikipedia

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    17 indivisible camels. The 17-animal inheritance puzzle is a mathematical puzzle involving unequal but fair allocation of indivisible goods, usually stated in terms of inheritance of a number of large animals (17 camels, 17 horses, 17 elephants, etc.) which must be divided in some stated proportion among a number of beneficiaries.

  5. Naming convention (programming) - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen is used by nearly all programmers writing COBOL (1959), Forth (1970), and Lisp (1958); it is also common in Unix for commands and packages, and is used in CSS. [5] This convention has no standard name, though it may be referred to as lisp-case or COBOL-CASE (compare Pascal case ), kebab-case , brochette-case , or other variants.

  6. Command pattern - Wikipedia

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    A sample UML class and sequence diagram for the Command design pattern. [3]In the above UML class diagram, the Invoker class doesn't implement a request directly. Instead, Invoker refers to the Command interface to perform a request (command.execute()), which makes the Invoker independent of how the request is performed.

  7. Burke and Wills expedition - Wikipedia

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    Robert O'Hara Burke was selected by committee ballot as the leader, and William John Wills was recommended as surveyor, navigator and third-in-command. [11] Burke made for an unusual choice as he had no experience in exploration; he was an Irish-born ex-officer with the colonial forces , and later became police superintendent with virtually no ...

  8. Desert Training Center - Wikipedia

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    Desert Training Center map US Army 1943. The Desert Training Center (DTC), also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA), was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert, largely in Southern California and Western Arizona in 1942.

  9. Equine anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Points of a horse. Equine anatomy encompasses the gross and microscopic anatomy of horses, ponies and other equids, including donkeys, mules and zebras.While all anatomical features of equids are described in the same terms as for other animals by the International Committee on Veterinary Gross Anatomical Nomenclature in the book Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, there are many horse-specific ...