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  2. Cross-check (chess) - Wikipedia

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    Cross-checks are rare in actual play, though they do occur, and in some endgames, particularly queen endgames, they are very important. The position shown to the right is the final position in the famous queen endgame from the game [1] between Mikhail Botvinnik and Nikolay Minev, Amsterdam Olympiad, 1954.

  3. Talk:Cross-check (chess) - Wikipedia

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  4. Glossary of chess - Wikipedia

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    cross-check A cross-check is a check played in reply to a check, especially when the original check is blocked by a piece that itself either delivers check or reveals a discovered check from another piece. [112] crosstable An arrangement of the results of every game in a tournament in tabular form. The names of the players run down the left ...

  5. Check (chess) - Wikipedia

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    Cross-check. When a check is answered by a check, particularly when this second check is delivered by a piece blocking the first, it is called a cross-check. In fact, a "cross-checkmate" is also possible in that way (that is, to answer a check with a checkmate); but since no such term is in common use, it would be called cross-check as well.

  6. Queen and pawn versus queen endgame - Wikipedia

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    The queen and pawn versus queen endgame is a chess endgame in which both sides have a queen and one side has a pawn, which one tries to promote. It is very complicated and difficult to play. Cross-checks are often used as a device to win the game by forcing the exchange of queens.

  7. 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.

  8. Queen versus rook endgame - Wikipedia

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    (It would still be drawn by perpetual check with the queen on f1 through f4, but it is won with the queen on f5 by the plan of getting the White king to h6, which no longer causes stalemate.) [15] Finally, diagram 3 has the defending king immobilised in the corner by the enemy queen a knight's move away, so the rook may give perpetual check ...

  9. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

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    Three checks chess – a player wins by checking the opponent king three times. Extinction chess – the objective is to capture all of a particular type of piece of the opponent (e.g., both knights, all pawns, or the queen). Crazyhouse – a captured piece can be introduced back to the board by the player who captured it, as a piece of his own.