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The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjoining square; it may also perform, in tandem with the rook , a special move called castling . If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check , and the player must remove the threat of capture immediately.
The Lasker Trap is a chess opening trap in the Albin Countergambit. It is named after Emanuel Lasker , although it was first noted by Serafino Dubois . [ 1 ] [ a ] It is unusual in that it features an underpromotion as early as the seventh move.
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game. In chess, the king is never actually captured. The player loses as soon as the player's king is checkmated.
After playing the four moves outlined above White will usually choose to direct play into another opening system [2] such as the Réti Opening (by playing c4), the King's Indian Attack (by playing d3, Nbd2 and e4), the Catalan (by playing d4 and c4), or the Hippopotamus (by playing b3 and Bb2). The Barcza System is thus essentially a ...
In chess, the Kieseritzky Gambit is an opening line in the King's Gambit.It begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5. Following Black's attempt to hold the sacrificed pawn by 3...g5, White reacts by immediately undermining the pawn chain.
His movie "Critical Thinking" is based on the true story of how five Miami public high school students shocked the country by becoming the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess ...
In chess, an exchange [1] or trade of chess pieces is a series of closely related moves, typically sequential, in which the two players capture each other's pieces. Any type of pieces except the kings may possibly be exchanged, i.e. captured in an exchange, although a king can capture an opponent's piece.
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