enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chess piece - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece

   A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color.

3. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_variants

   None of the pieces are standard chess pieces. [37] Prince & Princess: The chess variant that uses the criterion of succession, where the king or queen are replaced in favor of the prince or the princess, created by Antonio Maravi Oyague. [38] Proteus: A chess variant using dice to represent normal chess pieces, created by Steve Jackson Games. [39]

4. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess

   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.

5. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_chess

   Chess piece relative value – relative value of chess pieces, based on their relative power. Premove – used in fast online games, it refers to a player making his next move while his opponent is thinking about his move. After the opponent's move, the premove will be made, if legal, taking only 0.1 seconds on the game clock.

6. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staunton_chess_set

   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 equipment - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_equipment

   Players at a chess tournament, with chess clock and score sheets. Chess equipment are the tangible items required to play a game of chess.To have an over-the-board (OTB) chess tournament the equipment required includes: chess pieces, chessboard, chess clock, score sheets, pen to record the moves and table. [1]