Chess diagram found in a French manuscript (1173) Chess diagram from Jacob Köbel's German book about Mediaeval chess, Schachzabel Spiel (1520) Chess diagram...

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

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

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

underpromotion to rook or bishop would no longer be necessary in chess.) Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4 The effect if stalemates were to be scored as ¾–¼...

Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on...

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...

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)...

The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took...

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

In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that...

giving check to the king, but under fairy chess conditions, this might not actually be check. The diagrammed problem involves castling with an opposing...

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...

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...

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally...

chess moves. Botvinnik vs. Capablanca, 1938 A passed pawn that is protected by its own pawns is called a protected passed pawn. In the first diagram in...

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

Steinitz, the first World Chess Champion, endorsed this rule, explaining its purpose by referring to the position diagrammed, which he cited from Johann...

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...

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

algebraic notation to describe chess moves. V. Ropke, Skakbladet 1942 Some chess puzzles are not really puzzles at all. In the diagram, White is asked to checkmate...

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...

German 'compulsion to move'; pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because...

The World Chess Championship 1972 was a match for the World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion...

in the diagram moves to c5 in a single move, the white pawn on b5 can capture it en passant: bxc6. Stalemate is not a draw in Gliński's chess, but it...

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...

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...

returns to board A and the bishop finishes on board B (see diagram). A move in Alice chess has two basic stipulations: the move must be legal on the board...

and makes the second move on the board. This is demonstrated in the chess diagrams shown here. Switching the first piece can occur in games where the board...

the bishop. Modern chess engines suggest 9...g6 would be better, to deal with a very troublesome knight. 10. g4? Nf6 11. Rg1! (diagram) This is an advantageous...