Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White"...

including the chess server chess24, the mobile app Play Magnus, the Champions Chess Tour, and the chess improvement website Chessable. On December 16...

(2021) on Chessable, co-authored with IM Richard Palliser. Best of British (2021) on Chessable, co-authored with IM Richard Palliser. The Best Chess Moves...

original on December 9, 2021. Chessable: We're OPEN!. YouTube. Archived from the original on December 9, 2021. "Chessable joins the Play Magnus chess24...

with 1.d4 (2023) on Chessable Starting Out: Sicilian (2023) on Chessable Starting Out: Nimzo-Indian Defense (2024) on Chessable Sicilian Surprise: Neo-Boleslavsky...

Chessable. Plichta, Kamil (2019). Go for The Throat: Play 1.d4. Chessable. Plichta, Kamil (2019). Reign Supreme: The King's Indian Attack. Chessable....

Championship in Mexico". ChessBase. Retrieved July 5, 2026. "Lifetime Repertoires: Shankland's Semi-Slav - Chessable". www.chessable.com. Retrieved January...

Chessable Awards 2022 100 Repertoires: King's Indian Attack, nominated for Chessable Awards 2023 Leningrad Dutch: Simplified, nominated for Chessable...

– 3 June 2020. Chessable Masters (2020), 20 June – 5 July 2020. Legends of Chess (2020) 21 July – 5 August 2020. Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals benefiting...

describe chess moves. For a list of: unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems;...

represented the Netherlands at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku in 2016, playing on the reserve board. Keetman works for Chessable as vice president of content,...

Chess Tour 2022, with a 15+10 time control. The record has since broken by Gukesh D, on 16 October 2022. At the Chessable Masters online rapid chess tournament...

Algebraic notation is the standard method of chess notation, used for recording and describing moves. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely...

Part 1". Chessable. Retrieved 5 June 2026. "Alexandr Fier vs. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2023)". Chessgames.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26. "Chessable Masters:...

the Jobava London with the late Daniel Naroditsky and was co-writing a Chessable course on the King's Indian Defense with Naroditsky before his death....

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...

2021. "Lifetime Repertoires: Najdorf Sicilian". Chessable. Retrieved 14 June 2021. "Anish Giri's chessable course ridiculed". YouTube. 5 February 2021. Archived...

served as the main coach of Russian Chess School held in Moscow. In 2024, he served as a lecturer for the FIDE Chessable Academy. "FIDE Title Application...

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...

the fifth round of the Chessable Sunway Formentera. In March 2024, he won the silver medal in the Indian National Blitz Chess Championship, finishing...

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...

Chess is a 1986 musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story...

such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...

Look up chesser in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chesser may refer to Chesser, Edinburgh Chesser Island Al H. Chesser Billy Chesser Chris Chesser Elizabeth...

Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed...

open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface. Stockfish...

Look up chess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chess is a two-player board game. Chess or CHESS may also refer to: Chess (One Piece), a fictional character...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...

Handicaps (or odds) in chess are setup or rule modifications which enable a weaker player to have a higher chance of winning against a stronger one. There...

Major chess events in 2026 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Prague Chess Festival, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. The Candidates Tournament...

Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team...

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...

System. Chessable.com. [...] the typical, slow maneuvering London System games. Sielecki, Christof (2021). Sielecki's Queen's Gambit Declined. Chessable.com...

– Chessable Blog". 26 October 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2022. Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 428. Traxler Variation. Elburg, John (2002). "New in Chess Year...

The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...

Chessgames.com is a chess website by Chessgames Services LLC that maintains a database of chess games combined with discussion forums. Chessgames.com...

FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest...

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day, Fédération Internationale...

Infobox recurring event is being considered for merging. › The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world...

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to play three of the nine tournaments of the Champions Chess Tour 2022 winning the Chessable Masters where he beat Magnus Carlsen in semi-finals. After...

A chess variant is any board game related to, derived from, or inspired by orthodox chess. Chess variants can differ from standard chess in many different...

2025, he finished in third place at the Chessable Masters Qualifier. In April 2025, he qualified for the Chess World Cup 2025 through finishing in fourth...

2015) was an American chess player who held the FIDE title of International Master (IM). He won the United States Armed Forces Chess Championship five times...

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...

designed for rating chess players. It is a special case of the Bradley–Terry model. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess rating system over...

late Sultan Khan. Feb 7 – Magnus Carlsen wins the Chessable Masters, the first leg of the Champions Chess Tour, after beating Alireza Firouzja in the Grand...

Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until...

further fueling the controversy. In December, Niemann placed second at the Chessable Sunway Sitges Open after winning in tiebreaks against Amin Tabatabaei...

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...

Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat...

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square...

A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...

analysis". "Lichess – My Ultimate Guide to Chess960 – NM visualdennis". "Chessable – The Ascent – Wesley So's Fischer Random Strategies and Tactics". Friedel...

Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a variant of fast chess with...

A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...

chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles chess, cross chess, swap chess, or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug. The name Siamese chess is also used but...

and the Acquisition of New In Chess". Chessable. Retrieved 23 December 2022. "Everyman Chess acquired by Play Magnus". ChessTech. 4 March 2021. Retrieved...

The World Chess Championship 2026 is an upcoming chess match to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion,...

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. A large amount of established opening theory exists...

chess. Guramishvili has also authored a chess24 series on how to play with the black pieces in the Sicilian Najdorf variation, and has two Chessable courses...

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over interfering pieces. Each player begins the...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes rating lists including "Top 100 Players"...

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Amongst Indian chess players there are 99 Grandmasters (GM); 123 International Masters (IM); 23 Woman Grandmasters (WGM), including some who also hold...

Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; that is, one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force...

International Grandmasters for chess composition, for both chess problems and studies International Honorary Masters for chess composition International Solving...

is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist, and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851...

in the Morra!, is one of the leading advocates of the opening. In the Chessable Masters tournament in April 2023, Hikaru Nakamura played it in two rapid...

This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...

January 10, 2022. "Roquetas Chess Festival 2022 - XXXIII International Open (274685)". "Harry Grieve wins Chessable British Chess Championship". August 22...

Internet chess servers. Chess.com ChessBase Chessmaster Live FIDE Online Arena Free Internet Chess Server Internet Chess Club Kasparov Chess Lichess chess24...

PogChampion". Chess.com. Retrieved 2024-12-12. "State Of Chess: PogChamps, Chessable Courses, Fair Play Status, Product Updates, & More". Chess.com. March...

is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, a two-time World Chess Cup Champion...

Giant Team Liquid". Chess.com. Retrieved 14 February 2025. "Carlsen wins the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2025". Chess.com. "Carlsen won 2.5–1...

Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...

chess, Centaur chess or Cyborg chess Blindfold chess Chess handicap Correspondence chess Blitz chess Chess as mental training Chess boxing The Chess Variant...

The 46th Chess Olympiad will be an international chess tournament in Samarkand, Uzbekistan organized by the International Chess Federation. It will take...

This list of chess players is ordered by their peak FIDE rating, an implementation of the Elo rating introduced by FIDE in 1971. The cut-off value is...

Iranian-American chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009. Pourkashiyan began playing chess when she was 8...

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards...

Mittens is a chess engine developed by Chess.com. It was released on January 1, 2023, alongside four other engines, all of them given cat-related names...

Leonard Chess (1917–1969), record company executive Lisa Chess, American actress Marshall Chess (born 1942), American record producer Mary Chess (1878–1964)...

Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to...

Retrieved September 4, 2023. Rozman, Levy. "Study Variation – Chessable". chessable.com. Levy Rozman. Retrieved September 4, 2023. Cox (2005) "Jainy...

The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title has been awarded since 1950 to players who have met the standards required by...

Chess notation systems are used to record either the moves made or the position of the pieces in a game of chess. Algebraic notation is the standard method...

defeating GM Wesley So in the final. Nakamura won the Chessable Masters in April during the Champions Chess Tour. He overcame Magnus Carlsen in the loser's...

Chess pie is a dessert consisting of a pie crust with a filling composed mainly of flour, butter, sugar, eggs, and sometimes milk, characteristic of Southern...

shōgi; English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕo̞ːɡʲi]), also known as Japanese chess, is an abstract strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most...

The game of chess, or rather its immediate precursor, known as shatranj, was introduced to Europe from the Islamic sphere, most likely via Iberia (modern...

Individual Chess Championship 2022 by defeating Luitjen Akselsson Apol in the final round. In December 2022, Henderson tied for second place in the Chessable Sunway...

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...

fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and...

Capablanca chess, also called Knighted chess, is a family of over twenty Western chess variants which incorporate two new pieces. The family includes...

Chess Grand Slam Tour after defeating Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals and Fabiano Caruana in the finals. Feb 21 – Magnus Carlsen won the Chessable Masters...

Chess Monthly may refer to: The Chess Monthly (American magazine), New York, edited by Daniel Willard Fiske & Paul Morphy, published from 1857 to 1861...

Queen of Chess is a 2026 American documentary film which explores the life and career of Hungarian chess grandmaster Judit Polgár. It was directed by...

The World Chess Championship 2024 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the...

Attack: Stonewall for White. Chessable.com. Ramirez, Robert (2024). First Strike: The Fighting Stonewall Attack. Chessable.com. Soltis, Andrew (1993)....

chess problems, see Fairy chess piece; terms used in chess is general, see Glossary of chess; chess-related games, see List of chess variants. Directory: ...

overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard with 32 pieces. Chess can be described as all of the...

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...

"Chessable". Chessable.com. Retrieved July 14, 2026. "Smith, Bryan FIDE Profile". Ratings.fide.com. Retrieved July 11, 2026. "The United States Chess Federation...

The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjacent square that is not controlled by an enemy piece; it may...

representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface. The inclusion of the chess symbols...

Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...

The Chess World Cup 2025 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Goa, India, from 31 October to 27 November 2025. It was...

January 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She is the reigning five-time Women's World Champion, a former Women's World Blitz Chess Champion, and a two-time...

Srinath Narayanan chess games at 365Chess.com Srinath Narayanan player profile and games at Chessgames.com Srinath Narayanan at Chessable Srinath Narayanan...

World Chess Champion. He has written well-known chess books such as Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games and Reform Chess, a survey of chess variants...

Retrieved 2025-06-29. "Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival 2022". chess.com. "TWIC 1531". The Week In Chess. "Chess Results". chess-results.com. M. Amin...

chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master in 2025, and the title of FIDE Master in 2026. Sivanandan began playing chess during...

The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. There is a large body of theory regarding how the game...

July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning and five-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana...

A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with...

Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell...

Sitges. Retrieved 2 November 2025. "X Chessable Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival 2023 - Group A". Chess Results. 29 December 2023. Retrieved...

The King's Indian Attack (or KIA) is a chess opening system where White adopts the setup more commonly seen being played by Black in the King's Indian...

Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely...

Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess engine to explore the possible results of candidate moves. With this...

often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system...

Total Chess World Championship 2026 will be the first Total Chess World Championship, announced by Norway Chess on October 15, 2025, approved and endorsed...

In chess, en passant (French for 'in passing') describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made...

In chess, scholar's mate is the checkmate achieved by the following moves, or similar: e4 e5 Qh5 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6?? Qxf7# The same mating pattern may be reached...

World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...

1995) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who held five world titles in three different reigns. The sixth World Chess Champion, he also worked as...

chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape...

The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame. It begins when few pieces are left on the board. The line...

Russian chess grandmaster. Nepomniachtchi is a 2024 World Blitz Chess co-champion, alongside Magnus Carlsen. He is also a two-time Russian chess champion...

known as cờ tướng, literally 'General's chess', in contrast with Western chess or cờ vua, literally 'King's chess'. The game represents a battle between...

Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated. Players must make...

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...

Chess of the Wind (Persian: شطرنج باد, romanized: Shatranj-e Baad), also titled The Chess Game of the Wind, is a 1976 Iranian film written and directed...

chessable.com. Chessable. Retrieved 8 March 2025. Caruana, Fabiano. "Caruana's Ruy Lopez: Dark Archangel (Archangel with 10.a5 − 11.Be3)". chessable.com...

bad or good are ubiquitous in chess literature. Some publications intended for an international audience, such as the Chess Informant, have a wide range...

There are 44 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...

Sargon (stylized in all caps) is a line of chess-playing software for personal computers. The original Sargon from 1978 was written in assembly language...

The Royal Game (also published as Chess and as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author...

Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to...

Method and another via the Chessable course website on attacking strategies in chess. Rudolf is one of the leading chess commentators. Alongside Judit...

Online chess is chess that is played over the Internet, allowing players to play against each other. This was first done asynchronously through PLATO and...

the Sinquefield Cup in September 2022, a controversy arose involving the chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann. Carlsen...

The Grand Chess Tour 2026 is a series of chess tournaments, which is the eleventh edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consists of six tournaments with...

Battle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations showing the result of one piece moving onto the square of another...

Atomic chess is a chess variant. Standard rules of chess apply, with the difference that all captures result in an "explosion" through which the capturing...

eponymous Mary Chess, was owned by Henri Garceau. Mary Grace Chess was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of William E. Chess, who owned a local...

subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title The Chess Players, is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based...

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...

also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Canadian chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and FIDE Master (FM)...

Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source chess engine and volunteer computing project based on Google's AlphaZero engine. It...

record-company executive Leonard Chess, and a few of the musicians who recorded for Chess Records. The film stars Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Jeffrey Wright as Muddy...

(2021). Lifetime Repertoires: 1.b3. Chessable.com. Alkhatib, Ahmad (2019). Fight Like Nakamura, Play 1.b3!. Chessable.com. Dunnington, Angus (2000). Winning...

Hungarian-Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). A former chess prodigy...

organised chess tournaments featuring Indian celebrities such as cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, and played chess with actor Aamir Khan. In addition to chess, he...

the song "My Old Dutch" Bird's Opening, a chess opening also known as the "Dutch attack" Dutch Defence, a chess opening Dutch Grand Prix, a Formula One...

1995) is an American-born Canadian chess player, poker player, online streamer and YouTuber. She holds the chess title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) and...

Makruk (Thai: หมากรุก; RTGS: mak ruk; pronounced [màːk rúk]), or Thai chess (Thai: หมากรุกไทย; RTGS: mak ruk thai; pronounced [màːk rúk tʰaj]), is a strategy...

The Sinquefield Cup is an annual, closed chess tournament hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. It was first held...

including Circe chess, Madrasi chess, Andernach chess, monochromatic chess, patrol chess, Einstein chess [lt], and Descartes chess. New chess pieces: Conventional...

In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...

(German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'), also known as the Automaton Chess Player or simply the Turk (Hungarian: A Török), was a chess-playing machine first...

Kazakhstani chess grandmaster. She is the reigning three-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion. She was given the award of Outstanding Female Chess Player...

The princess is a fairy chess piece that can move like a bishop or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a bishop, but may do so when...

Spanish-Swedish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (1978). He is a five-time Spanish Chess Champion (1969, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1982), Chess Olympiad...

online as GothamChess, is an American chess international master, content creator, and author. Often referred to as "The Internet's Chess Teacher", he produces...

(Everyman Chess, 2014). Odessky, Ilya. 'Winning quickly with 1.b3 and 1...b6 (New In Chess, 2020). Trent, Lawrence. 1...b6 Against Everything (Chessable.com...

Dubov (Russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the...

commentator for high-profile chess events. He also spent many years teaching chess. On April 13, 2016, Ashley was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame. Ashley...

The World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC) is the highest body governing the official activities in the chess composition. It was known as the...

SPICE was founded by chess Grandmaster and Webster University professor, Susan Polgar. She served as the head coach of the Webster chess team from 2012 until...

pronunciation; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is...

Chess Championships are a family of annual blitz chess tournaments held and hosted by the online chess platform Chess.com. The reigning Speed Chess Champion...

performance in chess. The deliberate practice is energy-consuming and requires attention to correct mistakes. As prodigies start formal chess training early...

November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he was widely renowned for...

an Indian chess grandmaster. She has won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad. Deshmukh won the Women's Chess World Cup...

Gregory Allen Chesser II is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, who has represented the 25th district (including part...

The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining...

The camel or long knight is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. It can jump three squares horizontally and one square vertically or three...

The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening beginning with the moves: 1. e4 c6 Black prepares to contest the centre with 2...d5. It is a common defence against...

The empress is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a rook but may do so when moving...

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...

1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators...

Great chess or Large chess (Arabic: shatranj al-kabir) is a family of large board historical chess variants which were played in the Middle East and Central...

Chess is one of the most popular sports in Azerbaijan, where it is governed by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). On May 5, 2009 Azerbaijani president...

2025) was an American chess grandmaster, commentator, and content creator. He was widely considered one of the best speed chess players in the world and...

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The touch-move rule in chess specifies that a player, having the move, who deliberately...

Infinite chess is any variation of the game of chess played on an unbounded chessboard. Versions of infinite chess have been introduced independently...

Nepomniachtchi. In February, Keymer won the Chessable Masters Division II, part of that year's Champions Chess Tour. In August, he won the Akiba Rubinstein...

Rey Enigma, Fausti & Others Fundraise With Chess". (Chessable) (2024-08-29). "Olympiad Spotlight: Spain". Chess.com. Retrieved 2025-01-19. "El gran salto...

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...

titles join forces in a bid to stop him. In addition to online play and new chess and puzzle minigames, a revamped Konquest Mode from Deadly Alliance features...

The People's Republic of China (PRC) first competed at the Chess Olympiads in 1978 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The women's team began competing in 1980...

A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious talent will...

Doping in chess involves the use of performance-enhancing substances in the game of chess, especially in a professional competitive context. Whether such...

are the results of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937 to date. The tournament determines the woman chess champion of the United States. 1937...

1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006...

from Marvel comics Terry Lynch, from the 1985 film Turk 182 The Turk, a chess computer from a self-titled episode of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah...

inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. He also served as the president of American Chess Federation (predecessor of United States Chess Federation) for terms...

later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician....

international chess tournament. The tournament was conceived and organised by English player Howard Staunton, and marked the first time that the best chess players...

The zebra is a fairy chess piece that moves like a stretched knight. It jumps three squares horizontally and two squares vertically or three squares vertically...

Irish schools chess. Of the school chess teams' many achievements, most noteworthy was winning the prestigious Millfield International Chess Tournament in...

Claude Shannon, is a conservative lower bound of the game-tree complexity of chess of 10120, based on an average of about 103 possibilities for a pair of moves...

In chess, a tactic is a sequence of moves that each makes one or more immediate threats – a check, a material threat, a checkmating sequence threat, or...

The Chess Hotel is the third full-length album from American rock band The Elms. The album was released May 2, 2006, on Universal South Records. The album...

December 1969. It was the result of a recording session in early 1969 at Chess Records in Chicago with Fleetwood Mac, then a young British blues band,...

Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight...

The fifty-move rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no capture has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty moves (where...

teams in the league have been able to secure sponsors (including Chess.com and Chessable) to allow them to hire some of the world's top grandmasters. Some...

Chess 2: The Sequel is a chess variant created by David Sirlin and Zachary Burns of Ludeme Games. Sirlin, whose previous design work includes rebalancing...

Dragon by Komodo Chess (also known as Dragon or Komodo Dragon) are UCI chess engines developed by Komodo Chess, which is a part of Chess.com. The engines...

(9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely...

Look up chess player in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A chess player is someone who plays the game of chess. Chess player or Chess Players may also...

Alexandrovich Karjakin (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster and politician. A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's...

to the Central Asian region, with chess training app Chessable, mining company LLP Tioline, and the Kazakhstan Chess Federation also sponsoring the event...

Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion...

The mann or man (plural mannen), is a fairy chess piece that may move to any adjoining square. It is similar to the king, but it is not a royal piece...

superqueen, is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight. It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the...

States Chess Federation scale. Computer Gaming World stated in 1994 that Chess Wars was one of "a host of imitations and look-alikes" of Battle Chess. The...

(Russian: Дина Вадимовна Беленькая; born 22 December 1993) is a Russian chess player, commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber. She holds the title...

Campbell Chesser (born 27 April 2003) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League...

The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 was a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament...

Chess, a strategy board game, is played all over the world. The international governing body of chess is FIDE, established in 1924. Most national chess...

Several amateur chess players have been noted in other endeavors, while their lives and work have been influenced by the game of chess. Woody Allen The...

Courier chess (or courier game, from the German: Läufer-spiel) is a chess variant that dates probably from the 12th century and was popular for at least...

history of chess from its integration around the 10th century to the present day. The Spanish received Shatranj, one of the predecessors of chess, from the...

Hypermodernism is a school of chess that emerged after World War I. It featured challenges to the chess ideas of central European masters, including Wilhelm...

Belarusian and Israeli chess grandmaster. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and...

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2025–2026 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2025–2026 by Chess.com. The tour started on 2 September 2025...

Javokhir Sindarov (born 8 December 2005) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster in 2018 at the age of 12 years, 10 months...

Read Samadov is an Azerbaijani chess player. In February 2025, he tied for first place at the Chessable Masters Qualifier, losing the title to Saparmyrat...

tournament. He would then compete in the 2025 Chessable Masters tournament, part of the Champions Chess Tour, having been directly invited to the knockout...

Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969) was a Polish-American record company executive and the founder of Chess Records...

Chess in Wyoming refers to competitive chess played within the state of Wyoming. As of June 2026, Wyoming only has 90 players registered with the United...

1987) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Koneru is a runner-up of the Women's World Chess Championship and two-time Women's World Rapid Chess Champion. In 2002...

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...

Chess Oscar was an international award given annually to the best chess player. The winner was selected by votes that were cast by chess journalists from...

Philip Chess (born Fiszel Czyż; March 27, 1921 – October 18, 2016) was a Polish-born American record company executive, the founder of Chess Records alongside...

Фазлиддин ўғли Абдусатторов; born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of...

Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year. The first edition took place in the...

https://www.chessable.com/blog/checkmate-in-the-world-chess-championship/ 1929 World Chess Championship at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages...

Three-dimensional chess (or 3D chess) refers to a family of chess variants that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells...

November 2002) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25. She won individual Gold at Chess Olympiad 2024, She was ranked...

at a chess tournament in Zürich in 1895 by Julius Müller, hence the name "Swiss system", and is now used in many games including bridge, chess, and Go...

The fool's mate is the fastest checkmate in chess delivered after the fewest possible moves from the game's starting position. It arises from the following...

Many of the 1,327 named chess openings and variants listed by The Oxford Companion to Chess are named for geographic places. This article uses algebraic...

A school of chess denotes a chess player or group of players that share common ideas about the strategy of the game. There have been several schools in...

Chess Olympiad". chessresults. 2016-09-23. "Baadur Jobava vs Alexey Sarana". Chessable. Retrieved 2021-02-17. "Jobava playing Jobava-London". ChessGames...

Yourself Visually Chess By Jon Edwards Renaud & Kahn 1962, p. 128. Sean Marsh (14 December 2020). "The Rainbow Checkmate". chessable.com/blog. Retrieved...

Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup, and the London Chess Classic. The Grand Chess Tour was announced on April 24, 2015, at the Saint Louis Chess Club in...

The Queen's Gambit is the chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 It is one of the oldest openings and is still commonly played today...

C. H. O'D. Alexander, was an Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park...

born 6 October 1982) is an Armenian chess grandmaster who has represented the United States since 2021. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster...

Arjun Kumar Erigaisi (born 3 September 2003) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14 years...

March 1935) was a Russian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost...

Colossus Chess is a series of chess-playing computer programs developed by Martin Bryant, commercially released for various home computers in the 1980s...

The River Chess is a chalk stream that rises near Chesham in the Chiltern Hills in England, and flows for 11 miles (18 km) through Buckinghamshire and...

about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion. It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the...

A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs often provide for both informal and tournament games and...

sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...

Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600...

Filipino-American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion...

A chess opening theory table or ECO table (Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings) presents lines of moves, typically (but not always) from the starting position...

Chess Masters: The Endgame is a British television competition programme that first aired on BBC Two on 10 March 2025. The show is a spiritual successor...

uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess, xiangqi (Chinese), janggi (Korean)...

Abhimanyu Mishra (born February 5, 2009) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he holds the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster...

born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. Noted for her aggressive style of play, she was the women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978, and...

Organized gameplay of chess (Slovak: šach, Slovak pronunciation: [ˈʃax]) in Slovakia is overseen by the Slovak Chess Federation, founded in 1993 after...

used to classify chess openings in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings. The five-volume encyclopaedia was first published by Chess Informant between...

Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Swedish chess grandmaster who in 1992 became the fifth woman to earn this title from FIDE. Since...

on the tour finals. His most successful tournament in the tour was the Chessable Masters, where he beat super grandmasters Alireza Firouzja and Levon Aronian...

Example of stalemate Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move. Stalemate results...

Chess has a deep-rooted history in India, widely believed to have originated from the game of chaturanga during the Gupta Empire in circa 6th century...

Leonard Chess (1917–1969). It was directed by Jerry Zaks and written by Peter Martin Wortmann and Robert Conte, and stars Alessandro Nivola as Chess. The...

Cécile Haussernot (born 22 October 1998) is a French chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She was twice European champion...

The participation of transgender people in chess refers to transgender individuals who compete in chess tournaments. As of 2025[update], it is a controversial...

The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It can move one vacant square directly forward, or one or two vacant squares...

format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software. This article...

Петросян; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster. The ninth World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969, he was nicknamed "Iron Tigran"...

Kravtsiv 2025. Gustafsson, Jan (2024). "Aggressive 1.e4 Repertoire Part 1". Chessable. Retrieved 5 June 2026. Acers & Laven 2003. Hansen 2010, p. 47. 200 Open...

Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (born 24 October 1994) is an Indian chess grandmaster. Gujrathi attained the title of grandmaster in January 2013, becoming the...

In chess and similar games, check is a condition that occurs when a player's king is under immediate threat of capture on the very next turn. A king so...

The chess event at the 2022 Asian Games was held in Hangzhou Chess Academy (Hangzhou Qiyuan Chess Hall), Hangzhou, China, from 24 September to 7 October...

This is a timeline of chess. 6th century – The game chaturanga probably evolved into its current form around this time in India. 569 – A Chinese emperor...

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. In chess, an irregular opening is an opening considered unusual or unorthodox. In the early...

Naomi Bashkansky (born 2003), is an American chess player, a World Schools Chess Champion (Girls U13), a North American Junior Girls Under 20 Champion...

The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine...

The Amber chess tournament (officially the Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament, previously Melody Amber) was an annual invitation-only event for...

In chess, an endgame tablebase, or simply tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases...

March 18, 1969) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1988. A leading chess player since 1988, Ivanchuk has...

Scholastic chess in the United States has progressively grown in recent years, evidenced by the increasing membership numbers of school-aged children...

Syrian-American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author...

recorded for Leonard Chess and Aristocrat issued Waters's first single in 1947. In 1950, Chess bought out his label partners and formed Chess Records. From 1950...

A norm in chess is a high level of performance in a chess tournament. The level of performance is typically measured in tournament performance rating...

Circular chess, also known as round chess or Byzantine chess is a chess variant played using the standard set of pieces on a circular board consisting...

26, 1981) was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion, a title he...

Chess Center. Retrieved 21 May 2010. Chessgames Gibraltar Masters 2007 Crosstable Olimpbase - Olympiads and other Team event information Chessable Author...

is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021. She...

A chess set consists of a chessboard and (nominally) 'white' and 'black' chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king...

Norway Chess 2026 was the 14th edition of the annual chess tournament, held for the first time in Oslo. It was held from 25 May to 5 June 2026. The field...

Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England. She was the first and longest-reigning Women's World Chess Champion from 1927 to...

Aeroplane chess (simplified Chinese: 飞行棋; traditional Chinese: 飛行棋; pinyin: fēixíng qí, literally "aviation game" or "flying chess") is a Chinese cross-and-circle...

Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture)...

Chessence is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1989. The board is a 6×9 rectangle of squares with eight squares missing. Each player has a king...

portal 2000s portal War Chess (also known as Магические шахматы in Russian and Wizard Chess in English) is a fantasy-themed, chess-based strategy and tactics...

1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country...

Chess strategy is the aspect of chess play concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play. While evaluating...

The Queen's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: 1. d4 It is the second most popular opening move in chess after 1.e4, the King's Pawn...

Chess in Colorado refers to competitive chess played within the state of Colorado. As of August 2025, Colorado has 868 active players registered with...

and later Swiss chess grandmaster (GM) and chess writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Born...

have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess. Chess gained popularity amongst Jews in the...

Chess Titans is a chess video game with 3D graphics developed by Oberon Games and included in Windows Vista and Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional,...

Human chess, living chess or live chess is a form of chess in which people take the place of pieces. The game is typically played outdoors, either on a...

Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of International Master (IM). A chess prodigy, he won the 2019 K-3 New York State chess championship...

of Chess of Honduras. Between the chess players stood out in Honduras finds Ricardo Urbina, the one who in the 2004 was the first national chess player...

31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012...

Chess in Alaska refers to competitive chess played within the state of Alaska. As of March 2026, Alaska only has 118 active players registered with the...

Deep Blue vs. Kasparov Garry Kasparov, then-world champion in chess, played a pair of six-game matches against Deep Blue, a supercomputer by IBM. Kasparov...

Miyoko; born January 8, 1945) is a Japanese retired chess player and widow of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer. She was awarded the title of...

In chess, by far the most common scoring system is 1 point for a win, ½ for a draw, and 0 for a loss. A number of different notations are used to denote...

The women's event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), was held from 2–13 September 2016 in Baku...

April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s...

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...

In chess, a blunder is a critically bad mistake that severely worsens the player's position by allowing a loss of material, checkmate, or anything similar...

In chess, a smothered mate (or informally, smother mate) is a checkmate delivered by a knight in which the mated king is unable to move because it is...

In chess, a pin is a tactic in which a defending piece cannot move out of an attacking piece's line of attack without exposing a more valuable defending...

Three-check chess, also simply known as three-check, is a chess variant where a player can win by placing their opponent in check three times. Apart from...

Martian Chess is an abstract strategy game for two or four players invented by Andrew Looney in 1999. It is played with Icehouse pyramids on a chessboard...

UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame tablebases and the chess machine Belle. Since 2006, Thompson has worked...

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...

The King's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: 1. e4 It is the most popular opening move in chess, followed by 1.d4, the Queen's Pawn...

Shirov, Latvian: Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994. He won a match...

Chess is a 2006 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed by Raj Babu. Dileep plays the male protagonist and Bhavana as the heroine. Vijayakrishnan...

In chess, a fork is a tactic in which a piece attacks multiple enemy pieces simultaneously. The attacker usually aims to capture one of the forked pieces...

with the United States Chess Federation. The current USCF Florida state affiliate is the Florida Chess Association. The Florida Chess Association was established...

lists female chess players who have received FIDE (International Chess Federation) titles or have other significant achievements in chess. There are 44...

Eugenio Oliveros Torre (born November 4, 1951) is a Filipino chess grandmaster. In 1974, at 22 years old, he became the first Filipino and non-Soviet...

Ugandan chess player. She has represented Uganda at four Women's Chess Olympiads, and is one of the first titled female players in Ugandan chess history...

was a Serbian chess grandmaster and musician. He won a record 11 titles at Yugoslav Chess Championship, a record 12 team medals at Chess Olympiad, and...

Chessable Qualifier was held from 17 to 18 October 2020, and was a qualification tournament for Skilling Open, the first event of the Champions Chess...

Chess Ultra is a chess video game developed and published by Ripstone for the PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in June 2017. A Switch port was released...

Michael Adams (born 17 November 1971) is an English chess grandmaster and nine-time British Chess Champion. His highest ranking is world No. 4, achieved...

On 3 December 2021, in the sixth game of the World Chess Championship 2021, the defending world champion Magnus Carlsen (as White) defeated the challenger...

The World Chess Championship 1984–1985 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov at the Pillar Hall of House...

professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist, chess national master, and chess composer. Elkies was born to an engineer father and a piano...

The 1981 World Chess Championship was played between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi in Merano, Italy from October 1 to November 19, 1981. Karpov won...

Beethoven" is a 1956 song written by Chuck Berry, originally released on Chess Records, with "Drifting Heart" as the B-side. The lyrics of the song mention...

1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years...

Indian chess is the name given to regional variations of chess played in India in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is distinct from chaturanga. There are...

notation to describe chess moves. Zugzwang (from German 'compulsion to move'; pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based...

Astronomical chess or Astrological chess is a game for seven players from the book Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games), written under king Alfonso X the...

Combat Chess is a video game version of chess developed by Minds Eye Productions and published by Empire Interactive for Windows in October 1997. Combat...

2023, Tiglon earned his third and final GM norm at the Chessable Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival held in Sitges, Spain. Tiglon studied molecular...

A chess diagram is graphic representation of a position in a chess game, using standardised symbols. Chess diagrams are widely used in chess publications...

Cecilia Cristina Botez (/ˈboʊtɛz/ BOH-tez; born April 6, 2002) is a Canadian chess player, commentator, DJ and internet personality. She is mostly known as...

a Filipino and Australian chess player. She held the FIDE title of Woman International Master, won the Oceania women's chess championship in 2009 and competed...

870,912.) The problem appears in different stories about the invention of chess. One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is first...

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...

The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. It can jump four squares vertically and one square horizontally or four squares horizontally...

Blindfold chess, also known as sans voir, is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This...

Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lagno (born 27 December 1989) is a Russian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the...

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...

Anna Yolanda Bellón Cramling (born 30 April 2002) is a Spanish-Swedish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman FIDE...

A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run...

(Ukrainian: Ірина Борисівна Круш; born December 24, 1983) is an American chess grandmaster. She is the only woman to earn the GM title while playing for...

2025. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2nd Uzchess Cup, Challengers". chess-results.com. Retrieved 25 May 2025. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results...

Оле́гович Пономарьо́в; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004 and is the youngest holder...

British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship...

Britain), a board game unrelated to the "chess" family, that was supplanted by western chess. Viking (disambiguation) Chess (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

2022). "Chessable's Guide to the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad". Chessable. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023. "Chess Olympiad:...

Video Chess is a chess game for the Atari VCS (renamed Atari 2600 in 1982) programmed by Larry Wagner and Bob Whitehead with additional assistance from...

Center Counter Game) is a chess opening beginning with the moves: 1. e4 d5 This opening was featured in the first documented chess game with the modern queen...

and economist, currently serving as the president of the International Chess Federation, FIDE. He was Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet...

See: List of chess books (A–F) List of chess books (G–L) List of chess books (M–S) List of chess books (T–Z) Chess endgame literature Chess in early literature...

Attack, also called the Fegatello Attack (named after an Italian dish), is a chess opening variation of the Two Knights Defense in which White sacrifices a...

University Athletic Association of the Philippines Chess tournament is held yearly by the UAAP. Rapid and Blitz Chess were also introduced as demonstration sports...

stylized as ƎUИИ) is a neural network made to replace the evaluation of Shogi, chess and other board games using alpha-beta searchers running on a CPU. NNUE...

eponymous novel by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created...

born 30 August 1985[citation needed]) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who was Women's World Chess Champion from November 2012 to September 2013. Ushenina...

an American chess international master, event organizer, lecturer, and commentator. He is a co-founder and the chief chess officer of Chess.com. Rensch...

Xtracon Chess Open in 2016 and 2018. In 2019, he published the educational video series "1.e4 A Complete White Repertoire". In 2023, he made his Chessable debut...

Lichess (/ˈliː.tʃɛs/, LEE-ches) is an internet chess server that is free and open-source, run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of...

a commentator for Chess.com, covering events such as the World Chess Championship and Candidates Tournament. He also streams chess content on his Twitch...

Around 1500, Pacioli wrote an unpublished treatise on chess, De ludo scachorum (On the Game of Chess). Long thought to have been lost, a surviving manuscript...

David Navara (born 27 March 1985) is a Czech chess grandmaster. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002, he is a 14-time national champion (in...

specific to chess, see Glossary of chess; terms specific to computer chess, see Glossary of computer chess terms; terms specific to chess problems, see...

(2014), The Modern Bogo, New in Chess, ISBN 978-90-5691-495-0 Irina Bulmaga (2021), The Active Bogo-Indian Defense, Chessable.com. Steffen Pedersen (1999)...

French composer and chess master. He contributed to the early development of the opéra comique. He is widely regarded as the best chess player of his age;...

Stepney. Jamar Chess is the son of Robin and Marshall Chess. His grandfather is Leonard Chess, who started Chess Records in Chicago in 1950. Chess Records was...

Chess has been recorded as played in Australia since the middle of the nineteenth century, during which a chess club was established in Melbourne. The...

an American chess author, teacher and coach. A USCF national master, he is often considered to be one of America's most experienced chess teachers. In...

Magic Chess: Go Go (MCGG) is a multiplayer strategy auto battler mobile game developed and published by Moonton, a subsidiary of Savvy Games Group. The...

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...

Thibodeaux is an avid chess player, saying he used chess principles to hone his skills as a football player. He began playing chess at a young age, watching...

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess...

An auto battler, also known as auto chess, is a subgenre of strategy video games that typically feature chess-like elements where players place characters...

commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. Svidler has competed in three World...

Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols (U+2654 to U+265F)...

(born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician...

Bunyon's Chess is an outdoor 1965 sculpture by Mark di Suvero, installed at Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, Washington. The stainless steel and wood...

Laser Chess is a two-player, strategy video game modeled as a board game with chess-like pieces, most of which have mirrored surfaces, and one of which...

French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players...

A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies...

features chess exhibits, engages in educational outreach, and maintains a list of inductees to the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame and World Chess Hall of Fame...

2017) was an American chess grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and former Catholic priest. He was one of the leading American chess players during the 1950s...

February 1956) was a chess player who was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in its inaugural year, 1950. He was also a chess journalist and author...

and shorter than standard chess. The first chess-like game implemented on a computer was the 6×6 chess variant Los Alamos chess. The low memory capacity...

This example uses algebraic notation. The middlegame is the portion of a chess game between the opening and the endgame. It is generally considered to...

Горячкина; born 28 September 1998) is a Russian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the highest rated Russian woman in chess history with a peak FIDE rating of 2611...

Harry Chess is the central character of the first gay-themed ongoing comic strip, first appearing in the mid 1960s. He was created by Al Shapiro under...

This is a list of chess books that are used as references in articles related to chess. The list is organized by alphabetical order of the author's surname...

Look up fianchetto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In chess, the fianchetto (English: /ˌfiː.ən.ˈkɛ.toʊ/ or spelling pronunciation /ˌfiː.ən.ˈtʃɛ.toʊ/;...

Generals' chess may refer to: Shogi (将棋) or Japanese chess Janggi (장기/將棋) or Korean chess Xiangqi or Chinese chess, known in Vietnam as cờ tướng (棋將) This...

month, Chessable, along with FIDE, organized chess training for 450 participants under the age of 16 years around the world. From each chess-playing...

A joke chess problem is a puzzle in chess that uses humor as an element. Although most chess problems, like other creative forms, are appreciated for...

Spice Chess is an artist's multiple by the Japanese artist Takako Saito, while she was resident in the United States. Originally manufactured winter 1964–65...

In chess, a sacrifice is a move that gives up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms. A sacrifice could...

The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its...

known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of Mamma...

draw In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, in which neither player wins. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including...

The dabbaba, also known as the dabaaba or dabbabah, is a fairy chess piece that jumps two squares orthogonally (the directions a rook can move), leaping...

Wei Yi (Chinese: 韦奕; born 2 June 1999) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. Wei became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 8 months and 23 days, the 11th...

inventor, software developer, computer chess programmer, and entrepreneur. He is most notable for creating MicroChess, the first microcomputer game to be...

Croatian YouTuber and chess player. He has one of the most popular chess channels on YouTube, and was the most subscribed chess YouTuber from 2018 to...

Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879) was a German chess master. He won the great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost...

Rustam Kasimdzhanov (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and a former FIDE World Chess Champion (2004–2005). He was Asian champion in 1998...

Video assistant referee system in chess, abbreviated as VAR, is a technology that helps chess arbiters at chess competitions make the right decisions...

capital of Uganda. She learns to play chess and becomes a Woman Candidate Master after her victories at World Chess Olympiads. Adapted from an ESPN magazine...

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...

Eric Hansen (born May 24, 1992) is an American-born Canadian chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2013. He...

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...

an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. Rosen began playing chess as a child...

The Game of the Century is a chess game that was won by the 13-year-old future world champion Bobby Fischer against Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial...

August 2, 2026) was an American chess master and chess tournament organizer and director. He founded the Continental Chess Association (CCA), which runs...

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5 1...c5 is one of the most popular responses to White's first move...

Marshall Chess (born March 13, 1942) is an American record producer, the son of Leonard Chess who co-founded Chess Records. Marshall worked for sixteen...

pursued. In 1974, Multhopp's son, also named Hans, invented "Checkers chess", a chess variant in which pieces cannot move backwards until they have reached...

up in an orphanage in Kentucky, she is taught chess by the custodian Mr. Shaibel, and soon becomes a chess prodigy. While at the orphanage, she struggles...

The Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky during the London 1851 chess tournament, an event in...

Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Chess Champion. Topalov became FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship...

Pentala Harikrishna (born 10 May 1986) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He achieved a peak world ranking of 10 in November 2016, and a peak Elo rating...

Blind chess may refer to: Blind Chess Olympiad, an international competition for blind players Blindfold chess, in which one or both of the players has...

Čmilytė-Nielsen (née Čmilytė; born 6 August 1983) is a Lithuanian politician and chess Grandmaster who served as the speaker of the Seimas between 2020 and 2024...

American chess player, trainer and author known for being the trainer of his stepson Hikaru Nakamura, an American grandmaster. Weeramantry became a chess master...

March 13, 1976) is a Chinese and Qatari chess grandmaster. In 1999, she became China's second women's world chess champion after Xie Jun, and China's 13th...

Chaturanga (Indian chess) (~6th century) Chess (Western chess) (~15th century modern form) Congo (1982) Courier chess (German chess) (~12th century) Crazyhouse...

Mojsze Mendel Najdorf; 15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster. Originally from Poland, he was in Argentina when World War...

of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the...

November 29, 1999) is an American chess grandmaster. He is also a popular streamer, known online for his speed chess skills especially in bullet (one minute)...

history of chess began nearly 1500 years ago. The introduction of chess engines around 1960 and permanent improvement over time has made chess engines become...

the progress of significant human–computer chess matches. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous...

2023-08-03. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 43rd Chess Olympiad 2018 Women". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2023-08-03. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results...

Gibyatovich Nezhmetdinov (15 December 1912 – 3 June 1974) was a Soviet chess player, chess writer, International Master and checkers player. Although he never...

My Great Predecessors is a series of chess books written by former World Champion Garry Kasparov et al. The five volumes in the My Great Predecessors...

The grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along ranks, files, and diagonals (like a queen) but only by hopping over another piece. The piece to...

Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias...

(née de Rothschild; November 6, 1911 – July 15, 2012) was a French-American chess player, author, sculptor, philanthropist, and arts patron. She was a member...

GNOME Chess Hiarcs Chess Explorer PyChess Shane's Chess Information Database Shredder Winboard XBoard Apple Chess Battle Chess Battle vs. Chess Bobby...

This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chess opening, giving the gambit name, ECO code...

Hungarian chess grandmaster and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. He narrowly missed winning the Classical World Chess Championship...

Magnus Carlsen in the finals. He lost to Wesley So in semi finals of the Chessable Masters leg but defeated Levon Aronian to finish third. He also defeated...

Kramaley, Chessable review: How Chessable can help you become a Chess Master, 5 July 2016 Bethel McGrew, Substack Top Blitz Women, US Chess Federation...

Zachary Adam Chesser (born December 22, 1989) is an American convicted in 2010 for aiding al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terrorist group aligned with al-Qaeda...

called Sanguo Qi, Three Kingdoms Chess, or Three-Handed Xiangqi) is a three-player variant of the game xiangqi ("Chinese chess"). The game symbolizes the Three...

game with Neolithic versions found in Jordan from approximately 6900 BCE. Chess traces back to the Gupta Empire of India around the 6th century CE with...

the World Chess Federation. The USSR Chess Federation organized a USSR Chess Championship and published a newspaper called Шахматы в СССР (Chess in the USSR)...

The Hedgehog is a pawn formation in chess adopted usually by Black that can arise from several openings. Black exchanges the pawn on c5 for White's pawn...

Chesser (/ˈtʃɛzər/ CHEZ-ər) is a mainly residential suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, east of the Water of Leith. It, with Longstone, is to the south-west...

the 2023 chess calendar are the World Chess Championship 2023 and Women's World Chess Championship 2023. The top three finishers from the Chess World Cup...

2020) and has produced multiple video courses for Chessable, as well as opening repertoires for Modern Chess. He also runs a YouTube channel where he publishes...

Chess, also known as Robot Chess and Mate-in-Two, was a chess program developed by German scientist Dietrich Prinz, which first ran in November 1951 on...

dynamics. Its release in 2019 included benchmarks of its performance in Go, chess, shogi, and a suite of 57 different Atari games. The algorithm uses an approach...

In a game of chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Because pawns are the least...

of notable chess games sorted chronologically. 1475: Francesc de Castellví vs Narcís de Vinyoles, Valencia 1475. The first documented chess game played...

Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...

In 1834, chess masters Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais of France and Alexander McDonnell of Ireland played a series of chess matches. These matches...

Lego Chess is a Lego-themed, chess-based strategy video game developed by Krisalis Software, published by Lego Media, and released for Microsoft Windows...

The Saint Louis Chess Club (previously, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis) is a chess club in the Central West End in St. Louis, Missouri...

World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion...

Zhongyi (Chinese: 谭中怡;, pinyin : Tán Zhōngyí, born 29 May 1991) is a Chinese chess grandmaster (GM). She is a former Women's World Champion, winning the 2017...

General Government chess championships (Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements) were Nazi tournaments held during World War II in occupied central...

born 17 September 1984) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. A two-time national champion, he competed in two Chess Olympiads, winning team gold in 2008 and...

The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: 1. c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases...

Virtua Chess (also known as Virtual Chess) is a 1995 chess video game developed and published by Titus France SA for the MS-DOS. It was later ported to...

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. As of July 2025,[update] he is Azerbaijan's highest rated chess player. His personal best rating of...

test of time is chess, believed to have originated in India around the sixth century CE. The game spread to the west by trade, but chess gained social status...

The Chess Classics were a series of chess tournaments held in Germany, from 1994 to 2010. They were organized by Hans-Walter Schmitt. Among other things...

CHESS Magazine (ISSN 0964-6221), also called CHESS and previously called CHESS Monthly, is a chess magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by...

Three-player chess (also known as three-handed, three-man, or three-way chess) is a family of chess variants specially designed for three players. Many...

31 January 1955) was a British chess master who is best known for his unparalleled record of winning the British Chess Championship nine times in eleven...

The Mystery of Chess Boxing (Chinese: 雙馬連環; pinyin: Shuāng mǎlián huán; also known as Ninja Checkmate) is a 1979 Hong Kong kung fu film written, produced...

butter cake recipe (also known as "Ooey Gooey butter cake", occasionally "chess cake"), while close enough to the original, is an approximation designed...

forwarder, and one of the strongest players in the Dutch chess in the 19th century, unofficial Dutch Chess Championship winner (1879). In the period from 1860...

Bogatyrchuk; 27 November 1892 – 4 September 1984) was a Ukrainian-Canadian chess player, doctor of medicine (radiologist), political activist, Kiev city...

The 1975 World Chess Championship was not played due to a dispute over the match format. Champion Bobby Fischer (United States) was to play Anatoly Karpov...

being played. Although the term is most commonly used in the context of Chess analysis, it has been applied to other games. It also is a useful term used...

In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks their opponent and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected...