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  2. Chess set - Wikipedia

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    A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. [1] There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. Extra pieces may be provided for use in promotion, most commonly one extra queen per color. Chess boxes, chess clocks, and chess tables ...

  3. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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    The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, [1][2] recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [3][4] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton, who endorsed it; [2] the ...

  4. Chess - Wikipedia

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    Setup at the start of a chess game. Chess sets come in a wide variety of styles. The Staunton pattern is the most common, and is usually required for competition. Chess pieces are divided into two sets, usually light and dark colored, referred to as white and black, regardless of the actual color or design.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king; checkmate occurs when a king is ...

  7. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    The history of chesscan be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation. From India it spread to Persia, where it was modified in terms of shapes and rules and developed into Shatranj.

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