• marks, boxes, or other symbols. When annotating chess games, commentators frequently use widely recognized annotation symbols. Question marks and exclamation...
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    context it is a chess-specific term which no longer has its original meaning of "elephant". Chess notation Chess annotation symbols The main differences...
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  • U+2047 ⁇ DOUBLE QUESTION MARK, may refer to: A symbol indicating a blunder in chess annotation symbols The null coalescing operator, in some programming...
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  • bad or praise the move as a good one (see Chess annotation symbols). The following are commonly used for chess-related computer systems (in addition to...
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  • codes: B50-B99]: 2021 Chess annotation symbols – ECO uses symbols instead of text Chess Informant List of chess books List of chess openings – for all ECO...
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  • is the range b updated using interval arithmetic. The symbols ± and ∓ are used in chess annotation to denote a moderate but significant advantage for White...
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  • as ChessPad, have variously used these higher glyphs. Some of the symbols are not rendered by some browsers The more exotic symbols used by Chess Informator...
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  • restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia ? (CONFIG.SYS directive) ? (chess), in chess annotation symbols, indicates a mistake ? and the Mysterians, an American band...
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  • Question mark (category Typographical symbols)
    combinations are available: "⁇," "⁈," and "⁉," are usually used for chess annotation symbols; the interrobang, "‽," is used to combine the functions of the...
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    annotations below. Shortly after the game was played, Kieseritzky is believed to have telegraphed a report of the game to La Régence, a French chess journal...
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    Chess symbols in Unicode Fairy chess piece – a piece used only in chess variants History of chess Lewis chessmen Outline of chess Rules of chess Staunton...
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  • At sign (redirect from At symbol)
    to denote annotations (as in Java), and also to bind names to subpatterns in pattern-matching expressions. In Swift, @ prefixes "annotations" that can...
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  • of the game. See also post-mortem. annotation Written commentary on a game or a position using words, chess symbols, and/or notation. announced mate A...
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  • The Dutch Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 f5 Black's 1...f5 stakes a claim to the e4-square and envisions an attack in the...
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    A chess set consists of a chessboard and white and black chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king, one queen,...
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    Shogi (redirect from Japanese chess)
    (将棋, shōgi; English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular...
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    Lichess (category Internet chess servers)
    and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally...
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  • Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. One of the largest chess platforms in the world, the site operates on a freemium...
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  • 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...
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    as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine...
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  • theory tables are commonly published in opening books with annotations by experienced chess players. These tables are typically arranged in a compact manner...
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  • The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5 1...c5 is the most popular response among masters to White's first...
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  • World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) was an event held periodically from 1974 to 2024 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The...
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  • The Réti Opening is a chess opening whose "traditional" or "classic method" begins with the moves: 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 White attacks Black's pawn from the...
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  • Counter Game) is a chess opening characterized by the moves: 1. e4 d5 This opening is classified under code B01 in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings. The...
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  • other symbols. A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is...
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  • The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...
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    Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...
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    Mikhail Botvinnik (category Chess players from Saint Petersburg)
    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...
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    Junior is a computer chess program written by the Israeli programmers Amir Ban and Shai Bushinsky. Grandmaster Boris Alterman assisted, in particular...
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