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2. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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   The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king; checkmate occurs when a king is ...

3. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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   A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn . Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color. Additional pieces, usually an extra queen per color, may be provided for ...

4. Chess - Wikipedia

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   Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.

5. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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   Einstein chess: Pieces transform into more or less powerful pieces when they move. [53] Gravity chess: After every turn, all pieces other than pawns fall towards the higher ranks of the board, until they either reach the eighth rank, or another piece or pawn in the way. [54] [55] Grid chess: The board is overlaid with a grid of lines. For a ...

6. Algebraic notation (chess) - Wikipedia

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   Algebraic notationis the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinatesto uniquely identify each square on the board.[1] It is now almost universally used by books, magazines, newspapers and software, and is the only form of notation recognized by FIDE, the international chess ...

7. Touch-move rule - Wikipedia

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   This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The touch-move rule in chess specifies that a player, having the move, who deliberately touches a piece [a] on the board must move or capture that piece if it is legal to do so. If it is the player's piece that was touched, it must be moved if the piece has a legal move.