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  2. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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    The movement patterns for Queens and Bishops also changed, with the earliest rules restricting elephants to just two squares along a diagonal, but allowing them to "jump" (seen in the fairy chess piece the alfil); and the earliest versions of queens could only move a single square diagonally (the fairy chess piece Ferz). The modern bishop's ...

  3. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.

  4. Glossary of chess - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...

  5. Chess - Wikipedia

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    When describing moves verbally, chess pieces are typically referred to by name, and information is often selectively omitted when it can be discerned from context; for example, the moves 4. Bxf7 Kxf7 might be said as "bishop takes f7, king takes".

  6. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

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    Chess pieces – two armies of 16 chess pieces, one army designated "white", the other "black". Each player controls one of the armies for the entire game. The pieces in each army include: 1 king – most important piece, and one of the weakest (until the endgame). The object of the game is checkmate, by placing the enemy king in check in a way ...

  7. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    In some parts of India the pieces in the places of the rook, knight and bishop were renamed by words meaning (in this order) Boat, Horse, and Elephant, or Elephant, Horse, and Camel, but keeping the same moves. [27] In early chess the moves of the pieces were:

  8. Checkmate pattern - Wikipedia

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    It occurs when a knight checkmates a king that is smothered (surrounded) by his friendly pieces and he has nowhere to move nor is there any way to capture the knight. [25] One common checkmating pattern finishing with a smothered mate is known as Philidor's Legacy after François-André Danican Philidor , though its documentation predates ...

  9. Rook (chess) - Wikipedia

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    The Persian word rukh means "chariot", [14] as does the name of the corresponding piece in the original Indian version, chaturanga, ratha. [ citation needed ] In modern times, it is mostly known as हाथी (elephant) to Hindi-speaking players, while East Asian chess games such as xiangqi and shogi have names also meaning chariot ( 車 ...

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