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  2. En passant - Wikipedia

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    En passant. 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 a special case in the rules of chess. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy pawn passed over, as if ...

  3. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Outline of chess - Wikipedia

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    Outline of chess. Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess game, each player begins with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king ...

  5. Template:Chess diagram - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Template:Chess diagram. These templates shows a chess diagram, a graphic representation of a position in a chess game, using standardised symbols resembling the pieces of the standard Staunton chess set. The default template for a standard chess board is {{ Chess diagram }}. This documentation covers all related templates.

  6. Chess - Wikipedia

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    Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.

  7. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

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    Algebraic notation. Algebraic notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each square on the board. [1] It is now almost universally used by books, magazines, newspapers and software, and is the only form of notation recognized by FIDE ...

  8. Chess opening - Wikipedia

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    g. h. The starting position of chess. The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. [1] Many opening sequences, known as openings, have standard names such as "Sicilian Defense".

  9. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    In castling, K moves to c/h files. Chessers: There are multiple variants that combine the rules of chess and checkers, including a 1925 variant by Frank Maus, [33] and a 1960 proprietary variant by Phillips Publishers, Inc. [34] Decimal Chess [multivariant]: Played on a 10×10 board, usually add extra pieces.