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2. Bishop (chess) - Wikipedia

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   In an endgame with a bishop, in some cases the bishop is the "wrong bishop", meaning that it is on the wrong color of square for some purpose (usually promoting a pawn). For example, with just a bishop and a rook pawn , if the bishop cannot control the promotion square of the pawn, it is said to be the "wrong bishop" or the pawn is said to be ...

3. Library to display unique collection of chess sets

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   Dec. 2—HIGH POINT — When most people see a chess set, they see the individual pieces — the king and queen, the bishops, the knights, the rooks and the pawns. When Larry Cates sees a chess ...

4. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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   The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, [1] [2] recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton , who endorsed it ...

5. Chess set - Wikipedia

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   Chess boxes, chess clocks, and chess tables are common pieces of chess equipment used alongside chess sets. Chess sets are made in a wide variety of styles, sometimes for ornamental rather than practical purposes. For tournament play, the Staunton chess set is preferred and, in some cases, required. Human chess uses people as the pieces.

6. Chess symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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   Unicode 15.1 specifies a total of 110 spread across two blocks. The standard set of chess pieces—king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn, with white and black variants—were included in the block Miscellaneous Symbols. In Unicode 12.0, the Chess Symbols block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) was allocated for inclusion of extra chess piece ...

7. Dubrovnik chess set - Wikipedia

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   Due to the continuing popularity of the 1950 Dubrovnik chess sets, the replica plastic versions of the chess sets are the most popular in Eastern Europe, even though they are of low quality. [9] Gregor Novak of Noj. Ltd makes by hand and offers for sale an exact replica from wood of both the 1950 Dubrovnik chess set [10] and the 1970 Dubrovnik ...