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In chess, a trap is a move which tempts the opponent to play a bad move. Traps are common in all phases of the game; in the opening , some traps have occurred often enough that they have acquired names.
Plaskett's Puzzle is a chess endgame study created by the Dutch endgame composer Gijs van Breukelen (February 27, 1946 – December 21, 2022) around 1970, although not published at the time. Van Breukelen published the puzzle in 1990 in the Netherlands chess magazine Schakend Nederland .
The Durkin Opening (also known as the Durkin Attack or the Sodium Attack) is a rarely played chess opening that consists of the following move: . 1. Na3. The Durkin Opening is named for Robert T. Durkin (1923–2014) of New Jersey.
In a complete block, all of Black's moves have mates provided in the set play and the key is simply a waiting move; in an incomplete block, not all black moves are provided with mates in the set play – the key provides for those that do not; in a mutate, some of the mates provided in the set play are changed following the key. by-play
The Rat Defense, English Rat [1] [2] is an irregular Queen's Pawn Game chess opening characterised by the initial moves: 1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5. The position can also arise from an English Opening move order 1.c4 d6 2.d4 e5. Another possible move order can be reached via the Englund Gambit: 1.d4 e5 2.c4 d6.
Choker: A combination of chess and poker, with players betting on cards made up from pieces of a standard chess set. [101] Dark chess (or Fog of War chess): The player sees only squares of the board that are attacked by their pieces. [102] Dice chess [multivariant]: The pieces a player is able to move are determined by rolling a pair of dice. [103]
I will set down cat’s-eye gem, gold and ivory game pieces on a gemstone gaming board, and cast beautiful black and red dice. [ 4 ] At the end of the 18th century, Hiram Cox put forth a theory (later known as the Cox–Forbes theory ) that chaturaji is a predecessor of chaturanga and hence the ancestor of modern chess.
The vast majority of high-level chess games begin with either 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.Nf3, or 1.c4. [5] Also seen occasionally are 1.g3, 1.b3, and 1.f4. Other opening moves by White, along with a few non-transposing lines beginning 1.g3, are classified under the code "A00" by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings and described as "uncommon" or "irregular".