A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with...

glossary of chess problems explains commonly used terms in chess problems, in alphabetical order. For a list of unorthodox pieces used in chess problems, see...

A mathematical chess problem is a mathematical problem which is formulated using a chessboard and chess pieces. These problems belong to recreational...

741,823). The problem appears in different stories about the invention of chess. One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is...

A joke chess problem is a puzzle in chess that uses humor as an element. Although most chess problems, like other creative forms, are appreciated for serious...

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Loyd's most famous chess problems, originally published in London Era in 1861. In 1867, it participated together with five other problems as a set in an international...

chess puzzle is a puzzle in which knowledge of the pieces and rules of chess is used to logically solve a chess-related problem. The history of chess...

fairy chess", invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He was also problem editor of Fairy Chess Review (1930–1951). Although the term fairy chess is...

The world records in chess listed here are achieved in organized tournament, match, or simultaneous exhibition play. This article uses algebraic notation...

The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten each other; thus, a solution requires...

list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named...

governs Grid chess: for a move to be legal, the piece moved must cross at least one grid line. Grid chess is also used in chess problems. This article...

conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some unorthodox chess problems, known as fairy chess. Compared to conventional pieces, fairy...

Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE. A chess title, usually in an abbreviated...

Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the...

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. In chess problems, retrograde analysis is a technique employed to determine which moves were...

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...

ISBN 978-94-010-5542-0; see especially Section 13.1, "The mutilated chess board problem", pp. 271–274 Archived 2022-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Golomb...

as a chess variant. In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess, an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess. The following...

who published a chess problem using the rules in The Problemist (the magazine of the British Chess Problem Society) in 1975. Patrol chess has often been...

Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions, PCCC) to individuals who have judged several chess problem or study tournaments and who are considered...

in actual play, but are popular in chess problems since they make for a relatively unobvious solution. In the problem shown to the right, White is to move...

or solving, chess problems – puzzles in which pieces are laid out as in a game of chess, and may at times be based upon real games of chess that have been...

meetings of fairy chess enthusiasts. It was during the 1993 meeting there that Andernach chess was introduced with a chess problem composing tournament...

addition to orthodox chess. In the context of chess problems, chess variants are called heterodox chess or fairy chess. Fairy chess variants tend to be...

Zdravko Maslar, 1981 A helpmate is a type of chess problem in which both sides cooperate in order to achieve the goal of checkmating Black. In a helpmate...

Nowotny, even in non-German sources) is a device found in chess problems named after a problem from 1854 by Antonín Novotný, though the first example was...

composers and solvers of chess problems, awarded by the World Federation for Chess Composition (see List of grandmasters for chess composition). The International...

bad or good are ubiquitous in chess literature. Some publications intended for an international audience, such as the Chess Informant, have a wide range...