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The ChessMachine was a chess computer sold between 1991 and 1995 by TASC (The Advanced Software Company). It was unique at the time for incorporating both an ARM2 coprocessor for the chess engine on an ISA card which plugged into an IBM PC and a software interface running on the PC to display a chess board and control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChessMachine |
The World Rapid Chess Championship 2024 was the 2024 edition of the annual World Rapid Chess Championship held by FIDE to determine the world champions in chess played under rapid time controls. The tournament was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City from 26 to 28 December 2024, using a Swiss system with 13 ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Rapid_Chess_Championship_2024 |
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr. and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Guy |
The German Chess Federation (German: Deutscher Schachbund, DSB) is the umbrella organization for German chess players. It is a member of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund and of FIDE, the World Chess Federation. It has over 90,000 members in over 2500 clubs, making it one of the world's largest national chess federa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Chess_Federation |
Many of the 1,327 named chess openings and variants listed by The Oxford Companion to Chess are named for geographic places.
== A ==
Aachen Gambit of the Nimzowitsch Defence – 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Nb4
Aasum Gambit of the Dunst Opening - 1.Nc3 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.Bc4
Abbazia Defence of the King's Gambit – 1.e4 e5 2.f4 e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_openings_named_after_places |
Chess Mates is a computer software program, released in 1996 for Macintosh and 1997 for Microsoft Windows, designed to teach the basics of Chess. Chess Mates was marketed as an easy way for children to learn the building blocks of becoming a successful chess player. It was developed by Presage Software. The original pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Mates |
No Castling Chess is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and thoroughly explored by DeepMind, the team behind AlphaZero. In this variant, every rule is the same as chess, except that castling is not allowed. This variant reduces king safety, theoretically leadin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Castling_Chess |
Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (Russian: Борис Васильевич Спасский; January 30, 1937 – February 27, 2025) was a Russian chess grandmaster who was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigran Petrosian in 1966; defeated Petrosian in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Spassky |
General Government chess championships (Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements) were Nazi tournaments held during World War II in occupied central Poland. Hans Frank, the Governor-General of General Government, was the patron of those tournaments because he was an avid chess player.
The competition began when he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Government_chess_tournament |
"The Morals of Chess" is an essay on chess by the American intellectual Benjamin Franklin, which was first published in the Columbian Magazine in December 1786.
Franklin, who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, played chess from at least 1733. Evidence suggests that he was an above-average player, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morals_of_Chess |
The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan from 30 July to 24 August 2023. It was the 10th edition of the Chess World Cup. The winner, runner-up and third-place finisher of the tournament (Magnus Carlsen, R Praggnanandhaa and Fabiano Caruana) earned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2023 |
Events in chess in 1970;
== Top players ==
FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - 1970
Bobby Fischer United States 2720
Boris Spassky Soviet Union 2670
Viktor Korchnoi Soviet Union 2670
Efim Geller Soviet Union 2660
Bent Larsen Denmark 2650
Tigran Petrosian Soviet Union 2650
Mikhail Botvinnik Soviet Union 2640
Lev Polug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_chess |
Christian Bauer (born 11 January 1977) is a French chess grandmaster and author. He is a three-time French Chess Champion (1996, 2012, 2015).
In 2005 he won the 2nd Calvia Chess Festival. In 2009, came first at Vicente Bonil ahead of 21 GMs and 33 titled players. In 2010, he tied for 1st–7th with Alexander Riazantsev,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bauer |
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.
The English journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and the design is named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staunton_chess_set |
The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) is a fast online chess tournament circuit organized by Chess.com.
== History ==
== Editions ==
Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour 2020
Champions Chess Tour 2021
Champions Chess Tour 2022
Champions Chess Tour 2023
Champions Chess Tour 2024
== References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_Chess_Tour |
Chess of the Grandmasters (original title: Schach der Großmeister) is a former German TV programme. The programme was devised, supervised and presented by Claus Spahn.
== History ==
Between 1983 and 2005, the programme was broadcast once a year by Germany's Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) broadcasting corporation. The c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_of_the_Grandmasters |
The Women's Chess World Cup is a women's major chess competition organized by FIDE.
== Winners and results ==
"Qual" refers to the number of players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament based on the World Cup results (marked with green background) other than players who have otherwise qualified before the start ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Chess_World_Cup |
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. The rationale is that games often extend in duration beyond what is reasonable for a single session of play. Adjourni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjournment_(games) |
Lichess (; LEE-ches) is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play games to earn a rating on Lichess. Lichess is ad-free and all the features are available for free, as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess |
Chess Simulator is a 1990 chess video game developed by Oxfordshire-based Oxford Softworks and published by Infogrames for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. Oxford Softworks' previous chess program, Chess Champion 2175, was released only a few months before Chess Simulator. Chess Simulator is part of Infogrames' Simulat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Simulator |
Chess therapy is a form of psychotherapy that attempts to use chess games between the therapist and client or clients to form stronger connections between them towards a goal of confirmatory or alternate diagnosis and consequently, better healing. Its founder can be considered to be the Persian polymath Rhazes (AD 852–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_therapy |
The Women's World Chess Championship 2026 is an upcoming chess match which will determine the new Women's World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion Ju Wenjun, the winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2025, and a challenger, who will be the winner of the Women's Candidates Tourname... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_World_Chess_Championship_2026 |
Diving chess is a sport in which chess is played underwater. It was invented by Etan Ilfeld; and, since 2013, it has been included as one of the disciplines in the annual Mind Sports Olympiad.
== Rules ==
Diving chess is played at the bottom of a swimming pool, using a chessboard with magnetic chess pieces. The playe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_chess |
World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) was an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is organized by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA, until 2002 ICCA). It was often held in conjunction with the World Computer Speed Chess Champion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Computer_Chess_Championship |
Sega Chess (also known as Master Chess) is a 1991 chess video game developed by Probe Software and published by Sega for the Master System.
== Gameplay ==
The game can be viewed from overhead or in a pseudo 3D mode. There are nine skill levels: beginner to grandmaster. Resigning is not included in the game. Sampled s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Chess |
The World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) is the highest body governing the official activities in the chess composition. It was known as the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) from its inception in 1956 until October 2010. It is now independent from FIDE, but both organisations are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federation_for_Chess_Composition |
The 39th Chess Olympiad (Russian: 39-я Шахматная олимпиада, 39-ya Shakhmatnaya olimpiada), organised by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of chess, took place from September 19 to October 4, 2010, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. There were 148... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Chess_Olympiad |
Amsterdam 1956 was a chess tournament won by Vasily Smyslov. It was the Candidates Tournament for the 1957 World Chess Championship match between Smyslov and Mikhail Botvinnik.
== References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_Tournament_1956 |
The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted at the Brassey Institute in Hastings, England from 5 August to 2 September 1895.
Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred. All of the top players of the generation competed. It was one of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_1895_chess_tournament |
The Slovak Chess Championship is the chess competition, which determines the best slovak chess player.
== History ==
1993 - today - championships of Slovakia
for Czechoslovak championship see Czechoslovak Chess Championship
== Men's winners ==
=== In Slovakia, part of Czechoslovakia ===
=== In independent Slova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Chess_Championship |
Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) is an American former chess player, martial arts world champion, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film Searching for Bobby Fischer is based on his early life.
== Early life and education ==
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Waitzkin |
A chess opening book is a book on chess openings. This is by far the most common type of literature on chess. These books describe many major lines, like the Sicilian Defence, Ruy Lopez, and Queen's Gambit, as well as many minor variations of the main lines.
== Types ==
There are several types of opening manuals:
Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_opening_book |
The Chess Player (French: Le Joueur d'échecs) is a 1927 French silent film directed by Raymond Bernard and based on a novel by Henry Dupuy-Mazuel. It is a historical drama set in the late 18th century during the Russian domination of Polish Lithuania, and elements of the plot are drawn from the story of the chess-play... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Player |
Hostage chess is a chess variant invented by John A. Leslie in 1997. Captured pieces are not eliminated from the game but can reenter active play through drops, similar to shogi. Unlike shogi, the piece a player may drop is one of their own pieces previously captured by the opponent. In exchange, the player returns a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage_chess |
The Chess Master (Chinese: 棋王; pinyin: Qíwáng; lit. 'Chess King'), is a 1984 novella by Chinese writer Ah Cheng. It features characters who are part of the Down to the Countryside Movement, which occurred after the Cultural Revolution. Written from the point of view of an unnamed narrator, it describes the titular char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Master |
Millennium 3D chess is a three-dimensional chess variant created by William L. d'Agostino in 2001. It employs three vertically stacked 8×8 boards, with each player controlling a standard set of chess pieces. The inventor describes his objective as "extending the traditional chess game into a multilevel environment with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_3D_chess |
Chaturanga (Sanskrit: चतुरङ्ग, IAST: caturaṅga, pronounced [tɕɐtuˈɾɐŋɡɐ]) is an ancient Indian strategy board game. It is first known from India around the seventh century AD.
While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga |
Chess (in Finnish: Shakkipeli; literal translation: 'Chess Game'), Op. 5, is a theatre score—comprising four numbers—for orchestra by the Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja; he wrote the music in 1910 to accompany the Finnish author Eino Leino's one-act "historical tableau" of the same name. In particular, Madetoja's musi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(Madetoja) |
The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE has held an annual joint rapid and blitz chess tournament and billed it as the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships. The current world blitz champion title is shar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Blitz_Chess_Championship |
The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. It was created by Hans Bodlaender in 1995. The site is "run by hobbyists for hobbyists" and is "the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants".
The site contains a large compilation of games with published rules. The ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Variant_Pages |
Crazyhouse is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced, or dropped, into the game as one's own. It was derived as a two-player, single-board variant of bughouse chess. Its drop rule is reminiscent of shogi and the games are often compared, though there is no known evidence suggesting that shog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazyhouse |
In chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply the tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases are used to analyse finished games, as well as by chess engines to evaluate positions during play. Tablebases are typically exhaustive, covering every legal arrangem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase |
Chess (Polish: Szachy) is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski, first published in 1564 or 1565. Inspired by Marco Girolamo Vida's Scacchia Ludus, it is a narrative poetry work that describes a game of chess between two men, Fiedor and Borzuj, who fight for the right to marry Anna, princess of Denmark. The poem anthropomo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(poem) |
Feng-hsiung Hsu (Chinese: 許峰雄; pinyin: Xǔ Fēngxióng; born January 1, 1959) (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer. His work led to the creation of the Deep Thought chess computer, which led to the first chess playing computer to defeat grandmasters in tournament play a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng-hsiung_Hsu |
Chess with different armies (or Betza's Chess or Equal Armies) is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1979. Two sides use different sets of fairy pieces. There are several armies of equal strength to choose from, including the standard FIDE army. In all armies, kings and pawns are the same as in FIDE chess, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_with_different_armies |
The Chess Federation of Canada or CFC (French name: Fédération canadienne des échecs) is Canada's national chess organization. Canadian Chess Association, founded in 1872, was replaced in 1932 by the Canadian Chess Federation (CCF), which for the first time included representation from all major cities in Canada. In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Federation_of_Canada |
A bitboard is a specialized bit array data structure commonly used in computer systems that play board games, where each bit corresponds to a game board space or piece. This allows parallel bitwise operations to set or query the game state, or determine moves or plays in the game.
Bits in the same bitboard relate to ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitboard |
Anna Rudolf (born 12 November 1987) is a Hungarian chess player, chess commentator, livestreamer, and YouTuber who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a three-time Hungarian women's national chess champion and has represented Hungary at the Chess Olympiad and the European T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Rudolf |
Mak-yek (Thai: หมากแยก, RTGS: mak yaek) is a two-player abstract strategy board game played in Thailand and Myanmar. Players move their pieces as in the rook in chess and attempt to capture their opponent's pieces through custodian and intervention capture. The game may have been first described in literature by Capt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mak-yek |
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament from its creation in 1938 until the sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form the Corus Group in 1999, after which the tournament was renamed the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Steel_Chess_Tournament |
Critter is a cross-platform UCI chess engine by Slovakian programmer Richard Vida which is free for non-commercial use. The engine has achieved top five on most official chess engine Elo rating lists.
== History ==
Richard Vida started working on Critter in late 2008. The first version was originally written in Objec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critter_(chess) |
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. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique. He is widely regarded as the best chess player of his age; his book Analyse du jeu d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Andr%C3%A9_Danican_Philidor |
Rybka is a computer chess engine designed by International Master Vasik Rajlich. Around 2011, Rybka was one of the top-rated engines on chess engine rating lists and won many computer chess tournaments.
After Rybka won four consecutive World Computer Chess Championships from 2007 to 2010, it was stripped of these title... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka |
Descriptive notation is a chess notation system based on abbreviated natural language. Its distinctive features are that it refers to files by the piece that occupies the back rank square in the starting position and that it describes each square two ways depending on whether it is from White or Black's point of view. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_notation |
Following are the official winners of the national Brazilian Chess Championships from 1927 to date.
The 1998 championship was held 9–19 December in Itabirito, Minas Gerais State.
The field of sixteen played a series of two-game single-elimination matches to determine the finalists.
Rafael Leitão defeated Giovanni Vesco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Chess_Championship |
The Réti Opening is a hypermodern chess opening whose "traditional" or "classic method" begins with the moves:
1. Nf3 d5
2. c4
White attacks Black's pawn from the flank, which may occasion 2...dxc4. White may couple this plan with a kingside fianchetto (g3 and Bg2) to create pressure on the light squares in the center... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9ti_Opening |
David Martínez Martin is a Spanish chess player and coach of several Spanish players including David Anton Guijarro and Sabrina Vega. He was also director of chess24 chess platform in Spanish, and well known Spanish chess streamer and chess commentator.
== Chess career ==
In June 2024, he organized the "Clash of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mart%C3%ADnez_(chess_player) |
Arpad Emmerich Elo (né Élő Árpád Imre August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.
Born in Egyházaskesző, Kingdom of Hungary, he moved to the United States with his parents in 1913. He obtained his BSc and MSc degr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpad_Elo |
David Ionovich Bronstein (Russian: Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн; February 19, 1924 – December 5, 2006) was a Soviet chess player. Awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1950, he narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951. Bronstein was one of the world's strongest players from the mid-1940s ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bronstein |
The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18.
== History ==
Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015 (OR 2016), the event has been split into "World Cadets Chess Championship" (categories U8, U10 and U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Chess_Championship |
Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages. The earliest works of art centered on the game are miniatures in medieval manuscripts, as well as poems, which were often created with the purpose of describing the rules. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_in_the_arts |
Silver Star Chess is a chess video game for WiiWare. It costs 500 Nintendo Points to download.
== Reception ==
The game has been criticized for its poor artificial intelligence and lack of online multiplayer.
== References == | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Star_Chess |
Extinction chess is a chess variant invented by R. Wayne Schmittberger, editor of Games magazine, in 1985. Instead of checkmate as the winning condition, the object of the game is the elimination of all of a particular type of piece of the opponent. In other words, the objective is any of the following:
capture all th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_chess |
Dynamo chess is a chess variant invented by chess problemists Hans Klüver and Peter Kahl in 1968. The invention was inspired by the closely related variant push chess, invented by Fred Galvin in 1967. The pieces, board, and starting position of Dynamo chess are the same as in orthodox chess, but captures are eliminated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_chess |
The 36th Chess Olympiad (Spanish: La 36a Olimpíada de ajedrez; Catalan: La 36a Olimpíada d'escacs), organized by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between October 14 and October 31,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Chess_Olympiad |
Chess was a pioneering chess program from the 1970s, written by Larry Atkin, David Slate and Keith Gorlen at Northwestern University. Chess ran on Control Data Corporation's line of supercomputers. Work on the program began in 1968 while the authors were graduate students at the university. The first competitive versio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(Northwestern_University) |
Video Chess is a chess game for the Atari VCS (renamed Atari 2600 in 1982) programmed by Larry Wagner and Bob Whitehead and released by Atari in 1979. Both programmers later developed games for Activision.
== Gameplay ==
The game is played from an overhead perspective. The player uses a cursor to select and move pie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Chess |
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