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  2. Library to display unique collection of chess sets

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    Dec. 2—HIGH POINT — When most people see a chess set, they see the individual pieces — the king and queen, the bishops, the knights, the rooks and the pawns. When Larry Cates sees a chess ...

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    Unless you’re Beth Harmon on “Queen’s Gambit” — high on a mix of Librium and unrelenting ambition — then you probably can’t play an entire game of chess on the ceiling, from the ...

  4. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Three Fairy Chess pieces are used, the titular Duchess (princess), the Fortress (empress), and the Wizard, capable of teleporting friendly pieces. Forchess: A four-player variant using the standard board and two sets of standard pieces. Fortress chess: A four-player variant played in Russia in 18th and 19th centuries.

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of fairy chess pieces - Wikipedia

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    The following table shows some game pieces of unorthodox chess, from fairy chess problems and chess variants (including historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces. The columns "BCPS", "Parlett" and "Betza" contain the notation describing how each piece moves. The notation systems are explained in this page.

  7. Xiangqi - Wikipedia

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    Xiangqi ( Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí; Wade–Giles: Hsiang ch'i; English: / ˈʃɑːŋtʃi / ), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess.

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