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Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden . He joined the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1798 under Cajetan Toscani and Józef Grassi , later working autodidactically, copying the famous pictures of the Gemäldegalerie ...
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Chess Champion stands up well and provides an excellent game for beginner and experienced amateur alike." [2] Amiga Power said that "The game's mouse-only control is intuitive, its apparent depth - we're talking a huge library of opening moves here - is awesome and the level of tutoring offered is comprehensive." [3]
Moritz Retzsch (1779–1857) Gerhardt Wilhelm von Reutern (1794–1865) Ottilie Reylaender (1882-1965) Gustav Richter (1823–1884) Hans Richter (1888–1976) Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884) Gerhard Richter (born 1932) Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767) August Riedel (1799–1883) Franz Riepenhausen (1786–1831) Johannes Riepenhausen ...
Death playing chess (in Swedish: Döden spelar schack) is a monumental painting in Täby Church located just outside Stockholm, Sweden. It was painted around 1480–1490, by the Swedish medieval painter Albertus Pictor. [1] The painting depicts a man and a skeleton at a chessboard.
The eighth game of this series was the only match in the history of the world chess championships to end in an actual checkmate; [3] in the vast majority of cases, the losing player will resign long before the checkmate is played out.
In the first diagram with White to play, White can force checkmate as follows: 1. Rxg7+ Kh8 2. Rxh7+ Kg8 3. Rbg7# For this type of mate, the rooks on White's 7th rank can start on any two files from a to e, and although black pawns are commonly present as shown, they are not necessary to deliver the mate. The second diagram shows the final ...
Philidor's mate, also known as Philidor's legacy, is a checkmating pattern that ends in smothered mate. This method involves checking with the knight forcing the king out of the corner of the board, moving the knight away to deliver a double check from the queen and knight, sacrificing the queen to force the rook next to the king, and mating with the knight.