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Chess aesthetics or beauty in chess is the aesthetic appreciation of chess games and problems, by both players and composers. This is evident, for example, in brilliancy prizes [1] [2] [3] awarded to some games in certain tournaments and also in the world of chess composition. There are many books published featuring chess problems or puzzles ...
A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A dedicated chess computer has been purpose built solely to play chess. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows one to import and load an engine, and play against it. A chess database allows one to import, edit, and analyze a large archive of past games.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) – the origin of the Skynet organization is a computer chess program; chess tournament is featured in season one episodes Law and Order: Special Victims Unit series, in the "Hothouse" episode of season ten (2009), in which a young genius is seen obsessing over a chess game
Play free chess online against the computer or challenge another player to a multiplayer board game. With rated play, chat, tutorials, and opponents of all levels!
Font depictions of Unicode chess symbols (in the same order as the table): DejaVu Sans, FreeSerif, Quivira, Pecita. GNU Chess using Unicode chess characters to display a chess board in the terminal. Unicode has text representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface.
Mittens is a chess engine developed by Chess.com.It was released on January 1, 2023, alongside four other engines, all of them given cat-related names. The engine became a viral sensation in the chess community due to exposure through content made by chess streamers and a social media marketing campaign, later contributing to record levels of traffic to the Chess.com website and causing issues ...
Paul Morphy, American chess player known for his Romantic style of play. Romantic chess is a style of chess popular in the 18th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers rather than long-term strategic planning. Romantic players consider winning to be secondary to winning with style. [1]
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 ...