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  • Thumbnail for Lewis chessmen
    the bay where they were found, are a group of distinctive 12th century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus...
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    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...
    19 KB (2,011 words) - 08:48, 10 November 2024
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    The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...
    105 KB (10,352 words) - 21:15, 20 December 2024
  • This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this...
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    The World Chess Championship 2024 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the...
    86 KB (9,420 words) - 08:41, 20 December 2024
  • Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...
    17 KB (1,997 words) - 01:11, 9 December 2024
  • the Huangzhou Qi-Yuan Hall. All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00) "Chess - Competition Schedule & Results". Retrieved 7 October 2023. Results...
    38 KB (43 words) - 15:59, 12 November 2024
  • National Premier Chess Championship is the annual national chess championship of India. It was established in 1955 by the Andhra State Chess Association as...
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    The College, Holborn The World Chess Championship 2018 was a match between the reigning world champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen, and the challenger...
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    The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took...
    101 KB (11,318 words) - 09:20, 13 December 2024
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    Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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  • The World Correspondence Chess Championship determines the World Champion in correspondence chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest the...
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  • Thumbnail for 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...
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  • title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...
    29 KB (3,253 words) - 12:40, 15 December 2024
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    The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the...
    72 KB (1,562 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2024
  • as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following...
    127 KB (1,187 words) - 17:19, 18 December 2024
  • a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of...
    263 KB (24,972 words) - 15:44, 10 December 2024
  • Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969), was a Polish-American record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records...
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    Women represent a small minority of chess players at all ages and levels. Female chess players today generally compete in a mix of open tournaments and...
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  • FIDE (redirect from World Chess Federation)
    The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day, Fédération Internationale...
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