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Cross-checks are rare in actual play, though they do occur, and in some endgames, particularly queen endgames, they are very important. The position shown to the right is the final position in the famous queen endgame from the game [1] between Mikhail Botvinnik and Nikolay Minev, Amsterdam Olympiad, 1954.
The check mark is a predominant affirmative symbol of convenience in the English-speaking world because of its instant and simple composition.
In chess and similar games, check is a condition that occurs when a player's king is under threat of capture on the opponent's next turn. A king so threatened is said to be in check.
Fool's mate was named and described in The Royal Game of Chess-Play, a 1656 text by Francis Beale that adapted the work of the early chess writer Gioachino Greco. [2]Prior to the mid-19th century, there was not a prevailing convention as to whether White or Black moved first; according to Beale, the matter was to be decided in some prior contest or decision of the players' choice. [3]
Shakespeare humorously set up an insult-hierarchy of seven-fold "degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct". [28]
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Voltage changes on the five outputs of the binary counter counting from 00000, left to 11111 (or 31), right (vertically). In digital logic and computing, a counter is a device which stores (and sometimes displays) the number of times a particular event or process has occurred, often in relationship to a clock.
In law, countersignature refers to a second signature onto a document.For example, a contract or other official document signed by the representative of a company may be countersigned by their supervisor to verify the authority of the representative.