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  2. File:Chess puzzles.pdf - Wikipedia

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  3. Chess puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Chess puzzles can also be regular positions from actual games, usually meant as tactical training positions. They can range from a simple "Mate in one" combination to a complex attack on the enemy king. Solving tactical chess puzzles is a very common chess teaching technique. They are helpful in pattern recognition.

  4. Chess problem - Wikipedia

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    A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with a particular task. For instance, a position may be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two moves against any possible defence.

  5. De ludo scachorum - Wikipedia

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    De ludo scachorum ('On the Game of Chess'), also known as Schifanoia ('the "Boredom Dodger"'), [1] is a Latin-language manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance.

  6. Endgame study - Wikipedia

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    In the game of chess, an endgame study, or just study, is a composed position—that is, one that has been made up rather than played in an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find the essentially unique way for one side (usually White) to win or draw, as stipulated, against any moves the other side plays.

  7. Excelsior (chess problem) - Wikipedia

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    Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published ...

  8. Glossary of chess problems - Wikipedia

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    A piece in a chess problem that is legally placed and could only have been created through promotion. It does not include pieces promoted after the initial problem position. orthochess Synonym for orthodox chess. [5] orthodox chess Chess according to FIDE's The Official Laws of Chess; [6] see Rules of chess.

  9. Plaskett's Puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Plaskett's Puzzle is a chess endgame study created by the Dutch endgame composer Gijs van Breukelen (February 27, 1946 – December 21, 2022) around 1970, although not published at the time. Van Breukelen published the puzzle in 1990 in the Netherlands chess magazine Schakend Nederland .