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The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules of the game. The rules can be grouped into categories, from the most innocuous (starting position) to the most dramatic (adding chance/randomness to the gameplay after the initial piece placement).
Battle Chess: n/a No No Yes No Battle Chess: Game of Kings: n/a No No Yes No Battle vs. Chess: Fritz: No No levels 1-9 Yes Chessaria: The Tactical Adventure: Chessaria AICE No No Yes Yes Yes Chess Assistant: Dragon, Rybka: Yes Yes multivariation, uci_elo [a] No Chess960 No Chessbase: Fritz: Yes Yes uci_elo [a] for analysis but no timed games ...
Los Alamos chess, a 6×6 variant, was created in 1956 expressly for computers, its simplicity meant that it was possible for the MANIAC I computer to play it, with a victory over a beginner player the first instance of a computer winning a chess-like game against human opposition. [21]
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Čeština; Dansk; Deutsch ...
The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. It was created by Hans Bodlaender in 1995. [1] The site is "run by hobbyists for hobbyists" and is "the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants". [2] The site contains a large compilation of games with published rules.
It was the first decisive classical game in a World Chess Championship in more than five years, ending the longest-ever streak of 19 draws in consecutive World Chess Championship classical games, [121] and the 136-move game became the longest in the history of the World Chess Championship. [122]
Chess theory usually divides the game of chess into three phases with different sets of strategies: the opening, typically the first 10 to 20 moves, when players move their pieces to useful positions for the coming battle; the middlegame; and last the endgame, when most of the pieces are gone, kings typically take a more active part in the ...
These are famous individual games in the history of chess. See List of famous chess games for an annotated list. Articles on chess matches and tournaments are in the category Chess competitions. For descriptions of chess variants (games similar to chess but played with different rules, pieces, or boards), see Category:Chess variants