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2. Pawn Sacrifice - Wikipedia

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   Pawn Sacrifice. Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about chess grandmaster and 11th world champion Bobby Fischer. It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland.

3. Only a Pawn in Their Game - Wikipedia

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   Tom Wilson. " Only a Pawn in Their Game " is a song written by Bob Dylan about the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 1963. Showing support for African-Americans during the American Civil Rights Movement, the song was released on Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' album in 1964.

4. True Crime: New York City - Wikipedia

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   True Crime: New York City is a 2005 action-adventure video game developed by Luxoflux for PlayStation 2. It was ported to GameCube and Xbox by Exakt Entertainment, to Microsoft Windows by Aspyr, [5] and to mobile by Hands-On Mobile. [6] It was published on all systems by Activision. The PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube versions were released in ...

5. Chess - Wikipedia

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   Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.

6. Légal Trap - Wikipedia

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   ) without succumbing to a checkmate in two moves, 5...Nxe5 would win the white knight (for the pawn) and protect the bishop on g4. Instead, with 5.h3, White "puts the question" to the bishop which must either retreat on the c8–h3 diagonal, capture the knight, be captured, or as in this game, move to an insecure square.

7. Queen's Pawn Game - Wikipedia

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   This play allows White to play 2.e4, entering the French Defence. If White wants to continue with a Queen's Pawn Game however, 2.c4 and 2.Nf3 usually transpose to a familiar opening such as the Queen's Gambit Declined, Nimzo-Indian or Queen's Indian. A line that is unique to the 1...e6 move order is the Keres Defence, 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+.

8. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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   Original Staunton chess pieces Left to right: pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king. 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. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of ...

9. Rook and pawn versus rook endgame - Wikipedia

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   The rook and pawn versus rook endgame is a fundamentally important, [2][3][4][5][6] widely studied [7][8] chess endgame. Precise play is usually required in these positions. With optimal play, some complicated wins require sixty moves [9] to either checkmate, capture the defending rook, or successfully promote the pawn. [10]