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2. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

5. Minichess - Wikipedia

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   Minichess. The game of Tic Tac Chec, played on a 4x4 board. Minichess is a family of chess variants played with regular chess pieces and standard rules, but on a smaller board. [ 1 ] The motivation for these variants is to make the game simpler and shorter than standard chess. The first chess-like game implemented on a computer was the 6×6 ...

6. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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   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. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king; checkmate occurs when a king is ...

7. 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 ...