• Overloading (also overworking) is a chess tactic in which a defensive piece is given an additional defensive assignment which it cannot complete without...
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  • Look up overloading in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term overloading may refer to: Function overloading, a software engineering process whereby...
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  • batteries, discovered attacks, undermining, overloading, deflection, pins, and interference. The Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames gives the following tactics...
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  • Life's a Bitch "The Overload", a song by Talking Heads from their 1980 album Remain in Light Electrical overload Function overloading, the ability to create...
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    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...
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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...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Deflection is thus closely related to overloading. See also attraction. demonstration board A large standing chess board used to analyze a game or show...
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  • 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...
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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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    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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  • 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 fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...
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    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...
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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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  • 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...
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  • The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 c6 The Caro–Kann is a common defence against 1.e4. It is classified as a Semi-Open...
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  • The King's Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 White offers a pawn to divert the black e-pawn. If Black accepts the gambit...
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  • Bird's Opening (or the Dutch Attack) is a chess opening characterised by the move: 1. f4 Named after 19th century English player Henry Bird, Bird's opening...
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  • Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...
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  • The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...
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  • Chess Battle Chess Battle vs. Chess Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess Chess Champion 2175 Chess Mates Chess Player 2150 Chess Simulator Chess Titans Chess Ultra...
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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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  • h6-pawn. Overloading Hooper & Whyld (1996), pp. 102–03. decoy. Hooper & Whyld (1996), p. 110. diversionary sacrifice. George Huczek (2017). A to Z Chess Tactics...
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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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    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...
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    pronunciation: [ˈziːɡbɐt ˈtaraʃ]; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential...
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  • who employed the deflection. Overloading Sacrifice Hooper, David; Whyld, Kenneth (1992), The Oxford Companion to Chess (second ed.), Oxford University...
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