• David Brine Pritchard (19 October 1919 – 12 December 2005) was a British chess player, chess writer and indoor games consultant. He gained pre-eminence...
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  • David Pritchard may refer to: David Pritchard (chess player) (1919–2005), British chess writer David Pritchard (cricketer) (1893–1983), Australian cricketer...
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    March 6, 2009. Pritchard (2007), p. 206 "Diplomat Chess". The Chess Variant Pages Infinite Chess at The Chess Variant Pages. An infinite chess scheme represented...
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    (German for "Space chess"), invented in 1907 by Ferdinand Maack and considered the classic 3‑D game. Chapter 25 of David Pritchard's The Classified Encyclopedia...
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  • chess (also known as antichess, the losing game, giveaway chess, suicide chess, killer chess, must-kill, take-all chess, take-me chess, capture chess...
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    ISSN 0958-8248. Pritchard (1994), pp. 141–42. Pritchard (2007), pp. 209–10. Pritchard (1994), pp. 142–43. Pritchard (2007), p. 210. McCooey's Hexagonal Chess by Dave...
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    Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's...
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    Four-player chess (also known as four-handed chess) is a family of chess variants played with four people. The game features a special board typically...
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  • on internet chess servers such as Chess.com and Lichess. It is unknown specifically where three-check chess originated, but David Pritchard, author of...
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  • Three-player chess (also known as three-handed, three-man, or three-way chess) is a family of chess variants specially designed for three players. Many...
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    describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty') and freestyle chess, is a variation of the game of chess invented...
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    A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess. Such variants can differ from chess in many different ways. "International"...
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    characteristic feature of the game. Hostage chess has tactical subtlety and "tends to favour the attacker". In 1999, David Pritchard called the game "the variant of...
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  • Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...
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    doubles chess, cross chess, swap chess or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug) is a popular chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams...
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  • Kriegspiel. The rules offered on the Chess Variant Pages are as follows. The game is played with three boards, one for each player; the third is for the umpire...
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  • Checkless chess, also known as prohibition chess, is a chess variant where neither player may give check unless it is checkmate. All other rules are as...
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  • Elaine Zelia Pritchard (7 January 1926 – 7 January 2012), née Saunders, was an English chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM...
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  • Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212998-8. Pritchard, David B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. Godalming, England: Games & Puzzles Publications...
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  • for total of 30 turns in one game, the player the den belongs to loses. Jun Qi Chinese chess Stratego Pritchard (1994), p. 163. Parlett (1999), pp. 142–43...
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  • Retrieved May 25, 2017. Pritchard, David (2002). Byway, Paul V. (ed.). "Looney Variants" (PDF). Variant Chess. 5 (39). British Chess Variants Society: 109...
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  • Stalemate (redirect from Stalemate (chess))
    Example of stalemate Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check and has no legal move. Stalemate results...
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    Makruk (redirect from Thai Chess)
    Another variant of Cambodian chess was described by David Pritchard in the first edition of The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, but this was later determined...
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  • ISBN 9780486294322 Pritchard, David (2012), The Right Way to Play Chess, Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN 9780716023326 Rasskin-Gutman, Diego (2009), Chess Metaphors:...
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  • Bare king (category Rules of chess)
    In chess and chess variants, a bare king (or lone king) is a king whose player has no other remaining pieces (i.e. all the player's other pieces have been...
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    Chaturanga (category History of chess)
    History of Chess. Benjamin Press. ISBN 0-936317-01-9. Pritchard, D. B. (2007). Beasley, John (ed.). The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants. John...
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  • Dice chess can refer to a number of chess variants in which dice are used to alter gameplay; specifically that the moves available to each player are determined...
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  • Langham-Pritchard (born 1975), Australian field hockey player Bill Pritchard, English singer songwriter Bosh Pritchard (1919–1996), American football player Bradley...
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    following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with...
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    Chess". Variant Chess. Vol. 3, no. 24. British Chess Variants Society. pp. 69–71. ISSN 0958-8248. Pritchard, D. B. (1994). The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants...
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