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  2. File:SCD algebraic notation.svg - Wikipedia

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    Description: SVG, Chessboard and chess pieces; Schachbrett und Schachfiguren; sources: Chessboard based on Image:Chess Board.svg by User:Nevit, Chess pieces based on images Image:Chess blt45.svg, Image:Chess klt45.svg and so on (in Category:Chess pieces) by en:User:Cburnett; I have only composed the picture and added black and white lines, so the chess pieces are better visible an both black ...

  3. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive notation was usual in the Middle Ages in Europe. A form of algebraic chess notation that seems to have been borrowed from Muslim chess, however, appeared in Europe in a 12th century manuscript referred to as "MS. Paris Fr. 1173 (PP.)". The files run from a to h, just as they do in the current standard algebraic notation. The ranks ...

  4. Chess notation - Wikipedia

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    The notation for chess moves evolved slowly, as these examples show. The last is in algebraic chess notation; the others show the evolution of descriptive chess notation and use spelling and notation of the period. 1614: The white king commands his owne knight into the third house before his owne bishop. 1750: K. knight to His Bishop's 3d.

  5. Queen's graph - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a queen's graph is an undirected graph that represents all legal moves of the queen—a chess piece—on a chessboard.In the graph, each vertex represents a square on a chessboard, and each edge is a legal move the queen can make, that is, a horizontal, vertical or diagonal move by any number of squares.

  6. Back-rank checkmate - Wikipedia

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    In chess, a back-rank checkmate (also known as a corridor mate) is a checkmate delivered by a rook or queen along the opponent's back rank (that is, the row closest to them) in which the mated king is unable to move up the board because the king is blocked by friendly pieces (usually pawns) on the second rank.

  7. Chess opening theory table - Wikipedia

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    Chess opening theory books that provide these tables are usually quite large and difficult for beginners to use. Because the table entries typically do not include the themes or goals involved in a given line, beginners will either try to memorize the tables or simply drown in the detail.

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  9. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

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    Chess notation – system of recording chess moves. Algebraic chess notation – most common method of recording moves. Descriptive chess notation – obsolete method of recording moves, it was widely used, especially in English- and Spanish-speaking countries, and is still sometimes seen. Draw by agreement – the two players agree to call the ...