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  2. Losing chess - Wikipedia

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    Losing chess [a] is one of the most popular chess variants. [1] [2] The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère version. In some variations, a player may also win by checkmating or by being checkmated. Losing chess was weakly solved in 2016 by Mark Watkins as a win for White, beginning with 1.e3.

  3. Cheating in chess - Wikipedia

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    Rather than play the game directly, the cheater simply inputs the moves so far into the program and follows its suggestions, essentially letting the program play for them. Electronic communication with an accomplice during face-to-face competitive chess is a similar type of cheating; the accomplice can either be using a computer program or else ...

  4. Elo rating system - Wikipedia

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    After every game, the winning player takes points from the losing one. The difference between the ratings of the winner and loser determines the total number of points gained or lost after a game. If the higher-rated player wins, then only a few rating points will be taken from the lower-rated player.

  5. Check (chess) - Wikipedia

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    A king so threatened is said to be in check. A player must get out of check if possible by moving the king to an unattacked square, interposing a piece between the threatening piece and the king, or capturing the threatening piece. If the player cannot remove the check by any of these options, the game ends in checkmate and the player loses ...

  6. Lichess - Wikipedia

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    The event was won by So, beating Caruana on tiebreaks in the final (more wins in clutch games) after a final score of 9–9. [ 25 ] In June 2020, the SLCC hosted the Clutch Chess: International on Lichess, an eight-player invitational knock-out tournament with a prize fund of $265,000, which at the time was the largest prize fund ever offered ...

  7. Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess - Wikipedia

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    Mr.Alpha7 (talk · contribs) I am a bit over 1000-rated on chess, but have been studying and want to help this game go on into the world even farther. 1:22, October 14 2024 Randompersonaddingrobotstuff ( talk ) 04:16, 20 November 2024 (UTC) I like chess and am pretty bad at it, but still fun :P [ reply ]

  8. World Chess Championship 2016 - Wikipedia

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    The game was hailed as a miracle escape for Karjakin and a showcase of his defensive skills. [50] At the postgame conference, Carlsen said that he never saw a clear win, that it was "a little bit disappointing" not to have converted, and responded "absolutely" when asked if he was afraid to find out from the computer how much he had missed. [48 ...

  9. Evaluation function - Wikipedia

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    A significant body of evidence now exists for several games like chess, shogi and go as to the general composition of evaluation functions for them. Games in which game playing computer programs employ evaluation functions include chess , [ 2 ] go , [ 2 ] shogi (Japanese chess), [ 2 ] othello , hex , backgammon , [ 3 ] and checkers .