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A chess set. A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. [1] There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. Extra pieces may be provided for use in promotion, most commonly one extra queen per color.
Each player begins with sixteen pieces (but see the subsection below for other usage of the term piece).The pieces that belong to each player are distinguished by color: the lighter colored pieces are referred to as "white" and the player that controls them as "White", whereas the darker colored pieces are referred to as "black" and the player that controls them as "Black".
Chess set – all the pieces required to play a game of chess. Chess sets come in various materials and styles, and some are considered collectors' items and works of art. The most popular style for competitive play is the Staunton chess set, named after Howard Staunton, which are described below; some regions have alternate standard shapes for
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 ...
Cooke's name was misspelled as "Cook" on the 1849 patent and the misspelling has propagated in chess literature since then. [1] [2] The correct spelling can be found in numerous documents, including his business listings in the London Directories (see top picture, right) as well as official announcements of the marriage of his daughter Harriet Ingram Cooke, to John Jaques II, son of John ...
A Short History of Chess. McKay. ISBN 0-679-14550-8. OCLC 17340178. Eales, Richard (1985). Chess, The History of a Game. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0816011957. Forbes, Duncan (1860). The History of Chess: From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe. London: W.H. Allen ...
At eight years, six months and 11 days old, Ashwath Kaushik made history by becoming the youngest player to beat a chess grandmaster in a classical tournament game.
In contemporary chess, a digital board is a chess board connected to a computer that is capable of transmitting the moves to the computer itself: the information about the moves can be used to play a game against a chess engine, or simply to record the moves sequence of a game in automatic.