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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 (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess).
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. White moves first, followed by Black. The game is won by checkmating the opponent's king, i.e. threatening it with inescapable capture. There are several ways a game can end in a draw.
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The rules of chess as they are known today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games and is played by millions of people worldwide. (Full article...)
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Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry KCVO CB OBE (20 September 1906 – 25 March 1995) was a British chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant. He represented England in chess both before and after World War II. He worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was head of "Hut 6", a section responsible for deciphering messages which had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine. He was one of four leading codebreakers at Bletchley to petition the then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill directly for more resources for their work. After the war he worked in the Treasury, and later administered the British honours system. In chess, he represented England in international tournaments, and lent his name to four opening variations. (Full article...)
General images
The following are images from various chess-related articles on Wikipedia.
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Liberale da Verona, The Chess Players, c. 1475 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) (from Chess in the arts) -
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A Chess Dispute (1903) (from Chess in the arts) -
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Chess Set by Man Ray (from Chess in the arts) -
Gustaf Lundberg, 1775, Portrait of Gustav Badin, pastel, 74 x 57 cm, Nationalmuseum, Sweden (from Chess in the arts) -
Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official World Chess Champion (from History of chess) -
Hans Muelich, 1552, Duke Albrecht V. of Bavaria and his wife Anna of Austria playing chess (from Chess in the arts) -
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Stamp of the USSR devoted to the accomplished Estonian player and analyst Paul Keres, 1991 (from History of chess) -
Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game, 1555, National Museum, Poznań, Poland (from Chess in the arts) -
Karel van Mander, 1600 (attributed to), Les joueurs d'échecs (from Chess in the arts) -
Niccolò di Pietro, 1413–15, The Conversion of Saint Augustin, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon (from Chess in the arts) -
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In 1975, former President of Pakistan Zulfi Bhutto gifted a carved ivory set of chess to the former United States President Gerald Ford. (from Chess in the arts) -
Shams-i Tabrīzī as portrayed in a 1500 painting in a page of a copy of Rumi's poem dedicated to Shams (from History of chess) -
The Chess Players by Henry Fox Talbot, 1847 (from History of chess) -
Honoré Daumier, 1863, The Chess Players (from Chess in the arts) -
Animation of the Immortal Game, in which Adolf Anderssen, playing white, beat Lionel Kieseritzky in June 1851 (from History of chess) -
Persian manuscript from the 14th century describing how an ambassador from India brought chess to the Persian court (from History of chess) -
Current World Champion Ding Liren (from History of chess) -
The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland (from History of chess) -
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Richard Creifelds, c. 1886, The Veterans, Brooklyn Museum (from Chess in the arts) -
RZA at a Hip Hop Chess Federation Tournament (from Chess in the arts) -
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Paris Bordone, c. 1545, Chess players, oil on canvas, Mailand, Wohnhaus (from Chess in the arts) -
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Final match of the 1575 tournament in El Escorial. Painting by Luigi Mussini. (from History of chess) -
John Lavery, 1929, The Chess Players (from Chess in the arts) -
Lucas van Leyden, c. 1508, The Game of Chess, oil on oak, 27 x 35 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (from Chess in the arts) -
Georgian writers, Ilia Chavchavadze and Ivane Machabeli playing chess in Saint Petersburg, 1873 (from Chess in the arts) -
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Iranian shatranj set, glazed fritware, 12th century, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of chess) -
Some of the earliest examples of chess-related art are medieval illustrations accompanying books or manuscripts, such as this chess problem from the 1283 Libro de los juegos. (from Chess in the arts) -
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Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess (1473) (from Chess in the arts)
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FIDE world ranking
| Rank | Player | Rating |
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| 1 |  Magnus Carlsen
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2832 |
| 2 |  Hikaru Nakamura
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2802 |
| 3 | Fabiano Caruana
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2793 |
| 4 |  Arjun Erigaisi
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2778 |
| 5 |  Ian Nepomniachtchi
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2767 |
| 6 | Gukesh D
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2766 |
| 7 |  Nodirbek Abdusattorov
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2762 |
| 8 |  Wei Yi
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2762 |
| 9 |  Alireza Firouzja
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2751 |
| 10 | Wesley So
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2751 |
| 11 | Viswanathan Anand
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2751 |
| 12 | Praggnanandhaa R
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2749 |
| 13 | Leinier Dominguez
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2748 |
| 14 |  Anish Giri
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2746 |
| 15 | Ding Liren
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2745 |
| 16 |  Quang Liem Le
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2741 |
| 17 |  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
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2733 |
| 18 |  Jan-Krzysztof Duda
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2733 |
| 19 | Levon Aronian
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2729 |
| 20 |  Parham Maghsoodloo
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2723 |
Top 10 WikiProject Chess Popular articles of the month
This following chess-related articles is a most visited articles of WikiProject Chess, See complete list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Popular pages.
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![Image 1 Portrait by Joseph Duplessis, 1778 Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general. (Full article...)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png)
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general. (Full article...) -
Algebraic notation
Algebraic notation is the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each square on the board. 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 governing body. (Full article...) -
Stanley Kubrick (/ˈkuːbrɪk/; July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, his films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor. (Full article...) -
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 (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). (Full article...) -
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (/ˈboʊɡɑːrt/ BOH-gart; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor colloquially nicknamed Bogie. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema. (Full article...) -
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, the reigning five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, the reigning seven-time World Blitz Chess Champion, and the reigning Chess World Cup Champion. He has held the No. 1 position in the FIDE world chess rankings since 1 July 2011 and trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest-rated player in the world. His peak rating of 2882 is the highest in history. He also holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak at an elite level in classical chess at 125 games. (Full article...) -
The board game Monopoly is licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages.
Board games are tabletop games that typically use pieces. These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked game board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well. (Full article...) -
Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. (Full article...) -
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. (Full article...)
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In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance. This is an exception or special case in the rules of chess. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy pawn passed over, as if the enemy pawn had advanced only one square. The rule ensures that a pawn cannot use its two-square move to safely skip past an enemy pawn. (Full article...)
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