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A chess competition in which the players simultaneously play each other two games on two boards, each playing White on one and Black on the other. There is a clock at both boards. It removes the bonus in mini-matches of playing White first. Basque chess was first played in the 2012 Donostia Chess Festival in the Basque Country, Spain. [27]
Cubic chess is a chess variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec beginning with an early version (named Echos) in 1977. [1] [2] [3] The game substitutes cubes for the chess pieces, where four of the faces of each cube display a different chess piece (pawn, knight, bishop and rook), the two other faces are blank and are orientated to the players.
This category lists chess terms not already covered under Chess rules, Chess tactics and Chess checkmates. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Sanskrit caturaṅga is a bahuvrihi compound word, meaning "having four limbs or parts" and in epic poetry often meaning "army". [4] The name comes from a battle formation mentioned in the Indian epic Mahabharata. Chaturanga refers to four divisions of an army, namely elephantry, chariotry, cavalry and infantry.
A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess.It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn.
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Quatrochess is a chess variant for four players invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1986. [1] [2] It is played on a square 14×14 board that excludes the four central squares. Each player controls a standard set of sixteen chess pieces, and additionally nine fairy pieces. The game can be played in partnership (two opposing teams of two) or all ...
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