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Chess is also present in contemporary popular culture. For example, the characters in Star Trek play a futuristic version of the game called "Federation Tri-Dimensional Chess", [142] and "Wizard's Chess" is played in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. [143]
Wizard's Chess is a version of chess played with pieces that are magically animated. In Philosopher's Stone, Harry, Ron and Hermione become human chess pieces in a life-sized game of Wizard's Chess, which Harry wins thanks to Ron's skill at the game.
The series fictional universe features wizard's chess, a chess variant where the pieces are similar to living beings, to which the players give orders by voice; Lord Loss (2005) by Darren Shan. The main character, Grubbs Grady, lives in a family of chess players; Zugzwang (2006) by Ronan Bennett. St Petersburg tournament 1914.
Ron proves his bravery and magical ability several times, such as by playing 'real wizard's chess' in the first book, entering into the Forbidden Forest with Harry during the second book despite his arachnophobia, producing a full-corporeal Patronus Charm in the fifth book and even, in the seventh book, getting basilisk fangs from the Chamber ...
Wands belonging to other wizards can be borrowed, resulting in a comparatively less potent effect. [52] In Philosopher's Stone , Harry had to try out many wands before he found one that "chose him." Wands with cores from the same source give strange effects ( Priori Incantatem ) when forced to fight each other, as is the case with Harry and ...
The game is laid out like standard chess with the addition of a champion in each corner of the 10×10 board and a wizard in each new added corner square. Part of the reason for adding the new pieces was to equalize the number of jumping pieces with sliding pieces. The wizard was created specially to be a color-bound piece, an analog to the bishop.
The Lucena position is a position in chess endgame theory where one side has a rook and a pawn and the defender has a rook. Karsten Müller said that it may be the most important position in endgame theory. [1]