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Rules of chess, the Glossary

The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess.^[1]

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A History of Chess

A History of Chess is a book written by H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) and published in 1913.

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An abstract strategy game is a type of strategy game that has minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined only by player choice (with minimal or no randomness), and in which each player has perfect information about the game.

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Accolade

The accolade (also known as dubbing or adoubement) (benedictio militis) was the central act in the rite of passage ceremonies conferring knighthood in the Middle Ages.

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Adjournment (games)

Some board games, such as chess and Go, use an adjournment mechanism to suspend the game in progress, or at least did so before the advent of computer programs that play that game better than any human.

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Adolf Anderssen

Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Alexander McDonnell (chess player)

Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), sometimes spelled MacDonnell, was an Irish chess master, who contested a series of six matches with the world's leading chess player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais in 1834.

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Alfil

The pil, alfil, alpil, or elephant is a fairy chess piece that can jump two squares diagonally.

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Algebraic notation (chess)

Algebraic notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess.

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Bare king

In chess and chess variants, a bare king (or lone king) is a king whose player has no other remaining pieces (i.e. all the player's other pieces have been).

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Bishop (chess)

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess.

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Board game

Board games are tabletop games that typically use.

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Castling

Castling is a move in chess.

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Cheating in chess

Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team.

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Check (chess)

In chess and similar games, check is a condition that occurs when a player's king is under threat of on the opponent's next turn.

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Checkmate

Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with) and there is no possible escape.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chess clock

A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run simultaneously.

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Chess endgame

The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame.

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Chess engine

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest.

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Chess notation

Chess notation systems are used to record either the moves made or the position of the pieces in a game of chess.

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Chess piece

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess.

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Chess tournament

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team.

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Chessboard

A chessboard is a game board used to play chess.

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Clock

A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.

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Correspondence chess

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system.

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Daniel Harrwitz

Daniel Harrwitz (22 February 1821 – 2 January 1884) was a German chess master.

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Descriptive notation

Descriptive notation is a chess notation system based on abbreviated natural language.

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Draw (chess)

In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning.

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Draw by agreement

A game of chess can end in a draw by agreement.

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Elijah Williams (chess player)

Elijah Williams (7 October 1809 – 8 September 1854) was a British chess player of the mid-19th century.

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En passant

In chess, en passant ("in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same and an adjacent that has just made an initial two-square advance.

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Fast chess

Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than classical chess time controls allow.

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Ferz

The ferz or fers is a fairy chess piece that may move one square diagonally.

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FIDE

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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Fifty-move rule

The fifty-move rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty moves (for this purpose a "move" consists of a player completing a turn followed by the opponent completing a turn).

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Fischer random chess

Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Bobby Fischer.

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François-André Danican Philidor

François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player.

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George Walker (chess player)

George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London, 1835), Chess Made Easy (London, 1836), and Chess Studies (London, 1844).

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Glossary of chess

This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.

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Handbuch des Schachspiels

Handbuch des Schachspiels (Handbook of Chess, often simply called the Handbuch) is a chess book, first published in 1843 by Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa.

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History of chess

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of speculation.

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Howard Staunton

Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant.

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ICCF numeric notation

ICCF numeric notation is the official chess notation system of the International Correspondence Chess Federation.

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Ignatz Kolisch

Baron Ignatz von Kolisch (6 April 1837 – 30 April 1889), also Baron Ignaz von Kolisch (German) or báró Kolisch Ignác (Hungarian), was a merchant, journalist and chess master with Jewish roots. Kolisch was born into a Jewish family in Pressburg (known today as Bratislava). Both in business and as a chess player he was eminently successful.

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International Correspondence Chess Federation

International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) was founded on 26 March 1951 as a new appearance of the International Correspondence Chess Association (ICCA), which was founded in 1945, as successor of the Internationaler Fernschachbund (IFSB), founded on 2 December 1928.

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Jacob Sarratt

Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772 – 6 November 1819) was one of the top English chess players of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Johann Berger

Johann Nepomuk Berger (11 April 1845, Graz – 17 October 1933) was an Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, author and editor.

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Johann Löwenthal

Johann Jacob Löwenthal (Löwenthal János Jakab; 15 July 1810 – 24 July 1876) was a professional chess master.

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Kenneth Harkness

Kenneth Harkness (byname of Stanley Edgar; November 12, 1896 – October 4, 1972) was a chess organizer.

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King (chess)

The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess.

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Knight (chess)

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck.

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Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez

Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez (translation: "Book of the liberal invention and art of the game of chess") is one of the first books published about modern chess in Europe, after Pedro Damiano's 1512 book.

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London 1851 chess tournament

London 1851 was the first international chess tournament.

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Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais

Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795 – December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century.

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Luis Ramírez de Lucena

Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 – c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player who published the first extant chess book.

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Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet and Latvian chess player and the eighth World Chess Champion.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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New In Chess

New In Chess (NIC) is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam.

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Online chess

Online chess is chess that is played over the Internet, allowing players to play against each other in real time.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paul Rudolf von Bilguer

Paul Rudolf (or Rudolph) von Bilguer (21 September 1815 – 16 September 1840) was a German chess master and chess theoretician from Ludwigslust in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Pawn (chess)

The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess.

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Perpetual check

In the game of chess, perpetual check is a situation in which one player can a draw by an unending series of checks.

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Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant

Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (12 September 1800, Monflanquin – 29 October 1872) was a leading French chess master and an editor of the chess periodical Le Palamède.

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Pin (chess)

In chess, a pin is a tactic in which a defending piece cannot move out of an attacking piece's line of attack without exposing a more valuable defending piece.

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In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last.

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Queen (chess)

The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Rook (chess)

The rook (♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess.

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Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.

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Ruy López de Segura

Rodrigo "Ruy" López de Segura (c. 1530 – c. 1580) was a Spanish chess player, author, and Catholic priest whose 1561 treatise Libro de la invención liberal y Arte del juego del Axedrez was one of the first books about modern chess in Europe.

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Stalemate

Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check and has no legal move.

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Staunton chess set

The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body.

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Swiss-system tournament

A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors.

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Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa

Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as Baron von der Lasa; 17 October 1818 – 27 July 1899) was a German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades).

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess

Also known as Chess law, Chess laws, Chess rule, Chess rules, Dead position, Law of chess, Laws of Chess, London rules, Resign (chess), Rule of chess.

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