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2. Légal Trap - Wikipedia

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   The Légal Trap or Blackburne Trap (also known as Légal Pseudo-Sacrifice and Légal Mate) is a chess opening trap, characterized by a queen sacrifice followed by checkmate involving three minor pieces if Black accepts the sacrifice.

3. Charlemagne chessmen - Wikipedia

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   Queen. The legend regarding the set states that these chessmen were given as a gift to Charlemagne by Caliph Harun al-Rashid, [3] who was an avid chess player. The fact that the set displays elephants instead of bishops and chariots instead of rooks denotes a form of the Perso-Arabic game known as Shatranj, itself coming from the original Indian Chaturanga (which compound word means the 'Four ...

4. British Chess Company - Wikipedia

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   Both the 'Royal' and 'Imperial' were made in boxwood and ebony. Also they offered a very rare (3) Royal Chessmen 'Presentation Set' which was made of metal. The pieces were skilfully turned in German silver for the light colour, and in gilding metal for the dark. Only full club size 1 was available for the handsome sum of £12 12s.

5. Chess set - Wikipedia

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   A chess set. 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.

6. The Eight (novel) - Wikipedia

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   The Eight, published in 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel.It is an adventure/quest novel in which the heroine, computer whiz Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to recover the pieces of a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne and buried for one thousand years.

7. Cuba's electric grid collapses after power plant failure ...

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   HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba's national electrical system collapsed early on Wednesday morning after the country's largest power plant failed, the government said, the latest of several such failures as ...