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  2. Chessboard - Wikipedia

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    A chessboardis a game boardused to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess piecesare placed. It is square in shape and uses two colours of squares, one light and one dark, in a chequered pattern. During play, the board is oriented such that each player's near-right corner square is a light square.

  3. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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    The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, [1][2] recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [3][4] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton, who endorsed it; [2] the ...

  4. Chess - Wikipedia

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    Western chess. Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 ...

  5. Chess set - Wikipedia

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    A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. [1] There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. Extra pieces may be provided for use in promotion, most commonly one extra queen per color. Chess boxes, chess clocks, and chess tables ...

  6. Knight's tour - Wikipedia

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    Cull et al. and Conrad et al. proved that on any rectangular board whose smaller dimension is at least 5, there is a (possibly open) knight's tour. [4] [11] For any m × n board with m ≤ n, a knight's tour is always possible unless one or more of these three conditions are met: m = 1 or 2; m = 3 and n = 3, 5, or 6 [12] m = 4 and n = 4. [13]

  7. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king; checkmate occurs when a king is ...

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