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2. 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 ...

3. Chess symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia

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   The standard set of chess pieces— king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn, with white and black variants—were included in the block Miscellaneous Symbols. In Unicode 12.0, the Chess Symbols block (U+1FA00–U+1FA6F) was allocated for inclusion of extra chess piece representations. This includes fairy chess pieces, such as rotated pieces ...

4. Chess - Wikipedia

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

5. List of chess software - Wikipedia

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   Chess software comes in different forms. A chess playing program provides a graphical chessboard on which one can play a chess game against a computer. Such programs are available for personal computers, video game consoles, smartphones/tablet computers or mainframes/supercomputers. A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command ...

6. Staunton chess set - Wikipedia

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   The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, [ 1][ 2] recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE, the international chess governing body. [ 3][ 4] The journalist Nathaniel Cooke is credited with the design on the patent, and they are named after the leading English chess master Howard Staunton, who endorsed it; [ 2 ...

7. Computer chess - Wikipedia

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   1956 – Los Alamos chess is the first program to play a chess-like game, developed by Paul Stein and Mark Wells for the MANIAC I computer. 1956 – John McCarthy invents the alpha–beta search algorithm. 1957 – The first programs that can play a full game of chess are developed, one by Alex Bernstein [56] and one by Russian programmers ...

8. Board representation (computer chess) - Wikipedia

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   Board representation in computer chess is a data structure in a chess program representing the position on the chessboard and associated game state. [1] Board representation is fundamental to all aspects of a chess program including move generation, the evaluation function, and making and unmaking moves (i.e. search) as well as maintaining the state of the game during play.

9. File:AAA SVG Chessboard and chess pieces 04.svg - Wikipedia

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   Description: SVG, Chessboard and chess pieces; Schachbrett und Schachfiguren; sources: Chessboard based on Image:Chess Board.svg by User:Nevit, Chess pieces based on images Image:Chess blt45.svg, Image:Chess klt45.svg and so on (in Category:Chess pieces) by en:User:Cburnett; I have only composed the picture and added black and white lines, so the chess pieces are better visible an bothe black ...