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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 ...
Three-check chess, also simply known as three-check, is a chess variant where a player can win by placing their opponent in check three times. Apart from this, standard rules of chess apply, including starting position and other ending conditions, such as stalemate and checkmate .
High-level chess tournaments were largely forced online during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the FIDE Online Nations Cup and the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. [20] These were played on websites like Chess.com and chess24, but enforced additional rules on webcam usage and screen sharing in order to prevent cheating.
Transcendental chess (TC) also known as pre-chess, [1] is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Maxwell Lawrence. [2] [3] Chess960 (Fischer random chess) is similar but has fewer starting positions. In transcendental chess the beginning positions of the pieces on the back row are randomly determined, with the one restriction that the bishops be ...
PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess tournaments hosted by Chess.com.Players in the tournament are internet personalities, primarily Twitch streamers.The first four PogChamps tournaments took place over the course of two weeks, while the fifth iteration lasted four weeks. [1]
A cross-check occurs from time to time in games. It is an essential tactic in winning endgames such as two queens versus one queen, or queen and pawn versus queen, where it is used to stop a series of checks from the opponent and force the exchange of queens. It is also used in some chess problems.
Taking the opposition is a means to an end, normally to force the opponent's king to move to a weaker position, and is not always the best thing to do. There are extensions of direct opposition, such as diagonal opposition and distant opposition , which can be conducive to reaching direct opposition.