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2. Légal Trap - Wikipedia

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   The game was arranged as a display of living chess in Act II of Der Seekadet, an 1876 operetta by Genée and Zell: [9] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 (the Göring Gambit ) dxc3 5.Nxc3 d6 6.Bc4 Bg4 7.0-0 Ne5 8.Nxe5 Bxd1 9.Bxf7+ Ke7 10.Nd5# 1–0

3. Nathaniel Cooke - Wikipedia

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   Cooke's name was misspelled as "Cook" on the 1849 patent and the misspelling has propagated in chess literature since then. [1] [2] The correct spelling can be found in numerous documents, including his business listings in the London Directories (see top picture, right) as well as official announcements of the marriage of his daughter Harriet Ingram Cooke, to John Jaques II, son of John ...

4. Chess set - Wikipedia

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   A chess set. A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. [1] There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. Extra pieces may be provided for use in promotion, most commonly one extra queen per color.

5. Library to display unique collection of chess sets

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   For example, Cates owns Anri's "Far West" chess set, a beautiful set of intricately hand-carved pieces featuring the U.S. cavalry against Native Americans. He thinks the set dates to the early 1960s.

6. Smothered mate - Wikipedia

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   Philidor's mate, also known as Philidor's legacy, is a checkmating pattern that ends in smothered mate. This method involves checking with the knight forcing the king out of the corner of the board, moving the knight away to deliver a double check from the queen and knight, sacrificing the queen to force the rook next to the king, and mating with the knight.

7. The Eight (novel) - Wikipedia

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   The Eight, published in 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel.It is an adventure/quest novel in which the heroine, computer whiz Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to recover the pieces of a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne and buried for one thousand years.