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2. Mephisto (chess computer) - Wikipedia

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   Mephisto was a line of chess computers sold by Hegener & Glaser (H+G). In addition to integrated travel and sensory computers, they also sold a line of modular electronic autosensory boards (Modular, Exclusive, München, and Bavaria) which could accept different program, processor, and display modules. Its strongest software was written by ...

3. 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 ...

4. Mechanical Turk - Wikipedia

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   A cross-section of the Turk from Racknitz, showing how he thought the operator sat inside as he played his opponent. Racknitz was wrong both about the position of the operator and the dimensions of the automaton. [ 1 ] The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit.'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török ...

5. 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.

6. 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 ...

7. Three-dimensional chess - Wikipedia

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   Three-dimensional chess. Kubikschach 8×8×8 gamespace. Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which the pieces can move. In practice, this is usually achieved by boards representing different layers being laid out next to each other.