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Die Schachspieler (The Chess Players) 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.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973) one episode "A Game of Chess", season 2, episode 17, features cheating in a chess tournament by using a computer. The Prisoner (1967–1968) one episode ("Checkmate") features outdoor chess using people as pieces; Land of the Giants (1968–1970). The season two episode "Deadly Pawn" features the castaways as ...
The checkmate is delivered by a rook with the queen's assistance. The rook is adjacent to the king, while the queen supports the rook, being separated from it by one empty square on the same diagonal as the rook. This forms a 3 by 3 box shape, inside which the enemy king is trapped.
A checkmate may occur in as few as two moves on one side with all of the pieces still on the board (as in fool's mate, in the opening phase of the game), in a middlegame position (as in the 1956 game called the Game of the Century between Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer), [3] or after many moves with as few as three pieces in an endgame position.
In chess, a smothered mate is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because it is completely surrounded (or smothered) by its own pieces, which a knight can jump over. The mate is usually seen in a corner of the board, since only three pieces are needed to surround the king there, less than anywhere else.
"Checkmate," by Ed Massey. Massey's sculptures have appeared in print media including in The Wall Street Journal, [7] and Fortune Magazine. [8]The Wedding Dress (1998) was created for Massey's bride, Dawn Harris, a 200 lb (91 kg) sculpted dress with a five-foot train and 1,060 roses draped on a steel mesh form.
Avalanche chess: Each move consists of a standard chess move followed by a move of one of the opponent's pawns. Double-Move Chess: Similar to Marseillais chess, but with no en passant, check, or checkmate. The objective is to capture the king. By Fred Galvin (1957). [41]
A common move in the endgame is to checkmate an opponent's king with gold drop when the position that the gold is dropped to is also defended by another piece. Japanese has three terms for this depending on the position of the gold in relation to the king.