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2. Library to display unique collection of chess sets

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   Dec. 2—HIGH POINT — When most people see a chess set, they see the individual pieces — the king and queen, the bishops, the knights, the rooks and the pawns. When Larry Cates sees a chess ...

3. Knight (chess) - Wikipedia

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   The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically, jumping over other pieces.

4. 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.

5. Amazon (chess) - Wikipedia

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   An icon for the amazon used in diagrams. The amazon, also known as the queen+knight compound or the dragon, is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight.It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the king (because it cannot castle and does not know when it is under threat via the check rule) and the pawn (because it cannot practice en passant).

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 ...

7. Chess - Wikipedia

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   Chess sets come with pieces in two colors, ... Knights Templar playing chess, Libro de los juegos, 1283. Xiangqi is the form of chess best known in China. The eastern ...