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Lichess (/ ˈ l iː tʃ ɛ s /; LEE-ches) [3] [4] is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games.
Authors with five books or more have a sub-section title on their own, to increase the usability of the table of contents. When a book was written by several authors, it is listed once under the name of each author. See: List of chess books (A–F) List of chess books (G–L) List of chess books (M–S) List of chess books (T–Z)
The book World Cup Chess by Kavalek gives a complete account of the 1988-1989 series. The Chess World Cup was a FIDE event in 1982, a GMA event in 1988-89, then again in 1991-92 (but abandoned), returned to being a FIDE event in 2000 and this is where our article Chess World Cup picks up the trail.
Pieces representing human characters (the king, queen, bishop, and pawn) have a flat disk separating the body from the head design, which is known as a collar. A modified Staunton chess set, described in the FIDE Laws of Chess, [13] is used for the blind and visually impaired. In such a set, the black pieces are differentiated from the white ...
Polgar reform chess [multivariant]: In his book Reform-Chess (1997), László Polgár proposed several variants played on board of size 5×8, 6×8, 8×6, or 9×6. [12] The initial piece setup is determined by players in the same way as in Benko's Pre-chess. There are special rules for castling depending on the board. Polgár recommended these ...
Their total size is about 140 TB. [3] They were attacked by a ransomware in 2021, and have been offline since then. [27] Ronald de Man and Bojun Guo, who generated the seven man DTZ tablebase called the Syzygy tablebase in 2018. They were able to reduce the size of seven-man tablebases from 140 TB to 18.4 TB. [4]
Mark Glickman created the Glicko rating system in 1995 as an improvement on the Elo rating system. [1]Both the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems are under public domain and have been implemented on game servers online like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, [2] Dota 2, [3] Guild Wars 2, [4] Splatoon 2, [5] Online-go.com, [6] Lichess and Chess.com.
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). In a chess game, each player begins with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns.