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2. Helpmate - Wikipedia

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   The first helpmate problem was by the German chess master Max Lange, published in Deutsche Schachzeitung, December 1854.The problem had White to move and White could play in a number of different ways to achieve the same mate (duals), considered a serious flaw today.

3. Solving chess - Wikipedia

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   It is also related to more generally solving chess-like games (i.e. combinatorial games of perfect information) such as Capablanca chess and infinite chess. In a weaker sense, solving chess may refer to proving which one of the three possible outcomes (White wins; Black wins; draw) is the result of two perfect players, without necessarily ...

4. Chess puzzle - Wikipedia

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   While a chess puzzle is any puzzle involving aspects of chess, a chess problem is an arranged position with a specific task to be fulfilled, such as White mates in n moves. Chess problems are also known as chess compositions because the positions are specially devised, rather than arising from actual games. Chess problems are divided into ...

5. Software for handling chess problems - Wikipedia

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   This article covers computer software designed to solve, or assist people in creating or solving, chess problems – puzzles in which pieces are laid out as in a game of chess, and may at times be based upon real games of chess that have been played and recorded, but whose aim is to challenge the problemist to find a solution to the posed situation, within the rules of chess, rather than to ...

6. Seriesmover - Wikipedia

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   A seriesmover is a chess problem in which one side makes a series of legal moves without reply at the end of which the other side makes a single move, giving checkmate or yielding stalemate, depending on the precise stipulation. [1] Checks cannot be given except on the last move of the series. There are various types of seriesmover:

7. Scholar's mate - Wikipedia

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   Although a quick mate on f7 is almost never seen in play above beginner level, the basic idea underlying it—that f7 and f2, squares defended only by the kings, are weak and therefore good targets for early attack—is the motivating principle behind a number of chess openings. [7] After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 (the Two Knights Defense ...

8. Excelsior (chess problem) - Wikipedia

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   Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published ...

9. Chess problem - Wikipedia

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   A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by the composer using chess pieces on a chess board, which presents the solver with a particular task.For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two moves against any possible defence.