enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chess diagram - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_diagram

   Chess diagrams are widely used in chess publications as an aid to visualisation, or to aid the readers to verify that they are looking at the correct position on their chessboard or computer. The symbols used generally resemble the pieces of the standard Staunton chess set , although a number of different fonts have been used over the centuries.

3. Chess opening theory table - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Opening_Theory_Table

   A chess opening theory table or ECO table (Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings) presents lines of moves, typically (but not always) from the starting position. Notated chess moves are presented in the table from left to right. Variations on a given line are given horizontally below the parent line.

4. Chessboard - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessboard

   Chessboards during a match of Bughouse Spatial position of the boards in Raumschach. Some chess variants use more than a single board per match. Bughouse chess, for example, involves four players playing two simultaneous matches on separate boards. [18] Alice Chess is a popular variant which is usually played on two boards to facilitate the ...

5. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_notation_(chess)

   The table contains names for all the pieces as well as the words for chess, check, and checkmate in several languages. [16] Several languages use the Arabic loanword alfil for the piece called bishop in English; in this context it is a chess-specific term which no longer has its original meaning of "elephant".

6. Glossary of chess - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_chess

   This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...

7. Chess piece - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece

   Each player begins with sixteen pieces (but see the subsection below for other usage of the term piece).The pieces that belong to each player are distinguished by color: the lighter colored pieces are referred to as "white" and the player that controls them as "White", whereas the darker colored pieces are referred to as "black" and the player that controls them as "Black".

8. 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.

9. Chess opening - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_opening

   Chess players' names are the most common sources of opening names. [16] The name given to an opening is not always that of the first player to adopt it; often an opening is named for the player who was the first to popularize it or to publish analysis of it.