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Rensch is known for his coverage of Chess.com's flagship events like the Bullet Chess Championship, [19] PRO Chess League, [20] the Speed Chess Championship, [21] and PogChamps. [ 22 ] Rensch has also commentated live, over-the-board tournaments like the Isle of Man International, where top players like Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana ...
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. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king; checkmate occurs when a king is ...
Pawn (chess) The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It may move one square directly forward, it may move two squares directly forward on its first move, and it may capture one square diagonally forward. Each player begins a game with eight pawns, one on each square of their second rank.
Parent. Queen's Pawn Game. The Stonewall Attack is a chess opening characterized by White playing pawns to d4 and e3, bishop to d3, knight to d2, and then completing the Stonewall structure by playing pawns to c3 and f4. This set-up is usually achieved by a 1.d4 move order but transposition is also possible via Bird's Opening, 1.f4.
In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance. [ 2 ][ 3 ] This is an exception or special case in the rules of chess. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy pawn passed over ...
Christopher Hikaru Nakamura [2] (born December 9, 1987) is an American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy , he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 15, the youngest American at the time to do so.
Handicaps (or "odds") in chess are handicapping variants which enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one. There are a variety of such handicaps, such as material odds (the stronger player surrenders a certain piece or pieces), extra moves (the weaker player has an agreed number of moves at the beginning of the game), extra time on the chess clock, and special ...
Caruana played in the continuation of Candidates Tournament 2020–2021 from April 19 to April 28 and finished in fourth place on tiebreaks with a score of 7.5/10 (+3-2=9) [a] [59] His win against MVL in round 8 was considered an impressive show of preparation and play, where he sacrificed 3 pawns and a piece (a novelty) in the Poisoned Pawn ...