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  2. Chess - Wikipedia

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    Chess theory usually divides the game of chess into three phases with different sets of strategies: the opening, typically the first 10 to 20 moves, when players move their pieces to useful positions for the coming battle; the middlegame; and last the endgame, when most of the pieces are gone, kings typically take a more active part in the ...

  3. List of chess games - Wikipedia

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    It was the first decisive classical game in a World Chess Championship in more than five years, ending the longest-ever streak of 19 draws in consecutive World Chess Championship classical games, [120] and the 136-move game became the longest in the history of the World Chess Championship. [121]

  4. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    The oldest recorded game in chess history is a 10th-century game played between a historian from Baghdad and a pupil. [11] [non-tertiary source needed] A manuscript explaining the rules of the game, called "Matikan-i-chatrang" (the book of chess) in Middle Persian or Pahlavi, still exists. [33]

  5. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Category:Chess games - Wikipedia

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    These are famous individual games in the history of chess. See List of famous chess games for an annotated list. Articles on chess matches and tournaments are in the category Chess competitions. For descriptions of chess variants (games similar to chess but played with different rules, pieces, or boards), see Category:Chess variants

  7. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Endgame chess (or the Pawns Game, with unknown origins): Players start the game with only pawns and a king. Normal check, checkmate, en passant, and pawn promotion rules apply. [6] Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess): Played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program.

  8. List of world records in chess - Wikipedia

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    The longest game played in a world championship is the 6th game of the 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, which Carlsen won in 136 moves by resignation. The game lasted for 8 hours, 15 minutes and 40 seconds.

  9. Timeline of chess - Wikipedia

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    1474 – William Caxton publishes The Game and Playe of Chesse, the first chess book in English. 1475–1525 – Castling and the modern moves for the queen and bishop are slowly adopted. 1475 – Scachs d'amor the first published game of modern chess, written as a poem. 1493 – Hartmann Schedel publishes the Nuremberg Chronicle. It mentions ...

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