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2. Chess strategy - Wikipedia

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   Chess strategy is the aspect of chess play concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play. While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such factors as the relative value of the pieces on the board, pawn structure, king safety, position of pieces, and control of key squares and groups of squares (e.g. diagonals ...

3. Solving chess - Wikipedia

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   A variant first described by Claude Shannon provides an argument about the game-theoretic value of chess: he proposes allowing the move of “pass”. In this variant, it is provable with a strategy stealing argument that the first player has at least a draw thus: if the first player has a winning move in the initial position, let him play it, else pass.

4. Strategy (game theory) - Wikipedia

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   The discipline mainly concerns the action of a player in a game affecting the behavior or actions of other players. Some examples of "games" include chess, bridge, poker, monopoly, diplomacy or battleship. [2] The term strategy is typically used to mean a complete algorithm for playing a game, telling a player what to do for every possible ...

5. This Ames 11-year-old is one of the highest rated chess ...

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   The 11-year-old is currently the No. 1 rated women's chess player and the 15th overall chess player in Iowa. ... and the game requiring you to strategize to win.

6. Chess theory - Wikipedia

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   Chess initial position. The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. [1] There is a large body of theory regarding how the game should be played in each of these phases, especially the opening and endgame.

7. Chess tactic - Wikipedia

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   In chess, a tactic is a sequence of moves that each makes one or more immediate threats – a check, a material threat, a checkmating sequence threat, or the threat of another tactic – that culminates in the opponent's being unable to respond to all of the threats without making some kind of concession.

8. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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   Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.

9. First-move advantage in chess - Wikipedia

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   Armageddon chess is a variant of blitz chess that has often been used as a tiebreaker in recent years, such as in the Chess World Cup [207] and in the Norway Chess tournament (where it was used for individual draws). [208] In Armageddon chess, drawn games are counted as wins for Black (i.e. Black has draw odds), so