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Description: SVG, Chessboard and chess pieces; Schachbrett und Schachfiguren; sources: Chessboard based on Image:Chess Board.svg by User:Nevit, Chess pieces based on images Image:Chess blt45.svg, Image:Chess klt45.svg and so on (in Category:Chess pieces) by en:User:Cburnett; I have only composed the picture and added black and white lines, so the chess pieces are better visible an bothe black ...
A 1616 illustration of the Mann, a chess piece unique to the Courier Chess variant; the Mann moves like a King, but threatening it does not give check, and it can be captured without loss of the game. Chess variants sometimes include new, non-standard, or even old pieces. For example, Courier Chess, a predecessor of modern chess dating from the ...
A wooden chessboard with Staunton pieces. A chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape and uses two colours of squares, one light and one dark, in a chequered pattern.
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These templates shows a chess diagram, a graphic representation of a position in a chess game, using standardised symbols resembling the pieces of the standard Staunton chess set. The default template for a standard chess board is {{Chess diagram}}. This documentation covers all related templates.
Chaturaji (meaning "four kings") is a four-player chess-like game. It was first described in detail c. 1030 by Al-Biruni in his book India. [1] Originally, this was a game of chance: the pieces to be moved were decided by rolling two dice. A diceless variant of the game was still played in India at the close of the 19th century.