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In chess, an X-ray or X-ray attack is a tactic where a piece indirectly controls a square from the other side of an intervening piece. Generally, a piece performing an X-ray either: effects a skewer, [1] [2] [3] indirectly attacks an enemy piece through another piece or pieces, or
The game's 300 tutorials are based on the chess book Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (1966), co-authored by grandmaster Bobby Fischer. Although the tutorials are displayed from a pseudo-3D board view, the game can only be played from a 2D view. [2] The tutorials feature a menu that allows to rewind, pause, and forward the lesson. [3]
Chessmaster: The Art of Learning (alternatively Chessmaster XI and known on the PC as Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition [6] [7]) is a 2007 chess video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the Windows, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable. It is part of the Chessmaster series. The game was announced on August 10, 2007. [6]
Play free chess online against the computer or challenge another player to a multiplayer board game. With rated play, chat, tutorials, and opponents of all levels!
The game's Artificial Intelligence called Chessaria AICE was developed by Enrique Sánchez Acosta, a Ph.D. computer scientist, research and development software engineer, and computer chess programmer. The A.I. is an enhanced chess engine based on the research made for the Alfil chess engine, created by Acosta.
In chess, a half-open file (or semi-open file) is a file with pawns of only one color. The half-open file can provide a line of attack for a player's rook or queen. A half-open file is generally exploited by the player with no pawns on it. Many openings, such as the Sicilian Defense, aim to complicate the position. In the main line Sicilian, 1 ...
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 ...
A chess playing program provides a graphical chessboard on which one can play a chess game against a computer. Such programs are available for personal computers, video game consoles, smartphones/tablet computers or mainframes/supercomputers. A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A ...