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Endgame chess (or the Pawns Game, with unknown origins): Players start the game with only pawns and a king. Normal check, checkmate, en passant, and pawn promotion rules apply. [6] Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess): Played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program.
The files adjacent to the isolated pawn are either open or half-open, providing two lanes of attack for the rooks and the queen. [1] The absence of adjacent pawns may also aid mobilization of the player's knights and bishops. An isolated pawn on the d-file is called an isolated queen pawn or simply an isolani. [2]
The tablebases of all endgames with up to seven pieces are available for free download, and may also be queried using web interfaces. [28] Research on creating an eight-piece tablebase started in 2021. [29] During an interview with Google in 2010, Garry Kasparov said that "maybe" the limit will be 8 pieces. Because the starting position of ...
Dunsany's chess, also known as Dunsany's game, [1] is an asymmetric chess variant in which Black has the standard chess army and White has 32 pawns. This game was invented by Lord Dunsany in 1942. It was published the same year in Fairy Chess Review (August issue) [ 1 ] and in Joseph Boyer's Nouveaux Jeux d'Echecs Non-orthodoxes .
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A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A dedicated chess computer has been purpose built solely to play chess. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows one to import and load an engine, and play against it. A chess database allows one to import, edit, and analyze a large archive of past games.
A chess game on FICS using the Jin interface. The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run online chess platform. When the original Internet Chess Server (ICS) was commercialized and rebranded as the Internet Chess Club (ICC) in 1995, a group of users and developers came together to fork the code and host an alternative committed to free access, and a rivalry between the two ...
The solution by Kryukov is more complete, since it allows pawns to be placed everywhere, not only on the second row as by Aloril. The longest checkmate on a 3×3 board takes 16 moves. The number of unique legal positions is 54,687,564. [2] In 2009 Kryukov reported solving 3×4 chess, which also does not have a clearly defined starting position. [3]