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2. Touch-move rule - Wikipedia

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   The touch-move rule in chess specifies that a player, having the move, who deliberately touches a piece [a] on the board must move or capture that piece if it is legal to do so. If it is the player's piece that was touched, it must be moved if the piece has a legal move.

3. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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   A special move with the king known as castling is allowed only once per player, per game (see below). A rook moves any number of vacant squares horizontally or vertically. It also is moved when castling. A bishop moves any number of vacant squares diagonally. (Thus a bishop can move to only light or dark squares, not both.)

4. Zugzwang - Wikipedia

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   Zugzwang (from German ' compulsion to move '; pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; a player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any legal move will worsen their position.

5. Check (chess) - Wikipedia

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   A move can be both check and garde simultaneously. Before the queen acquired its current move (about 1495) the rook was the most powerful piece. At that time the term check-rook was used for a move that checked the king and attacked a rook at the same time (Hooper & Whyld 1992:75).

6. Making every move count. How chess can help youths make ... - AOL

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   Lenard Seawood promotes chess through his nonprofit Every Move Counts to help young people make the right choices Making every move count. How chess can help youths make good choices

7. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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   Any player can move any of their pieces at any given moment. Marseillais chess (or Two-move chess): After the first turn of the game by White being a single move, each player moves twice per turn. Monster chess (or Super King): White has the king and four pawns (c2-f2) against the entire black army but may make two successive moves per turn ...

8. Knight (chess) - Wikipedia

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   Bishops utilize a longer range, but they can move only to squares of one color. The knight's value increases in closed positions since it can jump over blockades. [6] Knights and bishops are stronger when supported by other pieces (such as pawns) to create outposts and become more powerful when they advance, as long as they remain active. [4]

9. Castling - Wikipedia

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   Castling is permitted only if neither the king nor the rook has previously moved; the squares between the king and the rook are vacant; and the king does not leave, cross over, or finish on a square attacked by an enemy piece. Castling is the only move in chess in which two pieces are moved at once. [3]