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  2. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Chess on a Really Big Board: Played on a 16×16 board, with twelve piece types (six being the standard number of chess pieces). Has many subvariants, including a larger 24×24 version and a three-dimensional 16×16×16 version. [citation needed] Chessers: Played on a regular chessboard but with checkers integrated with standard chess pieces. By ...

  3. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    The earliest precursor of modern chess is a game called chaturanga, which flourished in India by the 6th century, and is the earliest known game to have two essential features found in all later chess variations—different pieces having different powers (which was not the case with checkers and Go), and victory depending on the fate of one ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Chess variant - Wikipedia

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    A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. [1] Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways. "International" or "Western" chess itself is one of a family of games which have related origins and could be considered variants of each other. Chess developed from chaturanga, from which other members of ...

  6. Codenames (board game) - Wikipedia

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    Dixit, 25 Words or Less, Mysterium, Deception. [1] Codenames is a 2015 party card game designed by Vlaada Chvátil and published by Czech Games Edition. Two teams compete by each having a "spymaster" give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. The other players on the team attempt to guess their team's words while ...

  7. Chess piece relative value - Wikipedia

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    Chess-variant theorist Ralph Betza identified the 'leveling effect', which causes reduction of the value of stronger pieces in the presence of opponent weaker pieces, due to the latter interdicting access to part of the board for the former in order to prevent the value difference from evaporating by 1-for-1 trading. This effect causes 3 queens ...

  8. The Chess Variant Pages - Wikipedia

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    The Chess Variant Pages. The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants. It was created by Hans Bodlaender in 1995. [1] The site is "run by hobbyists for hobbyists" and is "the most wide-ranging and authoritative web site on chess variants". [2] The site contains a large compilation of games with published rules.

  9. 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 ...

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