Handicaps (or "odds") in chess are handicapping variants which enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one. There are a... 69 KB (9,121 words) - 03:02, 26 April 2024 |
sport or game: Handicap race (disambiguation) Handicap (chess) Handicap (golf) Handicap (go) Handicap (sailing) Handicap (shogi) Handicapping, various methods... 1 KB (160 words) - 08:37, 18 January 2024 |
whilst maintaining fairness. Handicapping is used in scoring many games and competitive sports, including go, shogi, chess, croquet, golf, bowling, polo... 18 KB (2,220 words) - 10:15, 2 May 2024 |
Dunsany's Chess (and the similar Horde chess): One side has standard chess pieces, and the other side has 32 pawns. Handicap chess (or Chess with odds):... 84 KB (9,599 words) - 13:24, 22 April 2024 |
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian... 100 KB (10,065 words) - 07:39, 14 May 2024 |
feature: Chess Tiger, Crafty, the Fritz engine, Hiarcs, Houdini, Junior, Rybka, Shredder and Zappa. Some UCI engines can also make use of Handicap, e.g.... 12 KB (1,391 words) - 20:24, 24 April 2024 |
Shogi (redirect from Japanese chess) Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general's (shō 将) board game (gi 棋). Shogi was the earliest historical chess-related... 99 KB (10,737 words) - 11:12, 20 April 2024 |
handicap systems (see Go handicaps); chess has traditional handicap methods not used in rated competitions (see Chess handicap). hex In hexagon-based board... 25 KB (2,138 words) - 05:13, 12 May 2024 |
handicapping is not as strong as it is in western chess because material advantage is not as powerful in shogi. An even game (that is, a non-handicap... 34 KB (2,366 words) - 16:10, 11 March 2024 |
Castling (redirect from Castling (chess)) a handicap game with rook odds, the player giving odds may castle with the absent rook, moving only the king. Writing in 2019, former world chess champion... 41 KB (4,357 words) - 15:48, 9 April 2024 |
Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which... 17 KB (1,817 words) - 21:57, 9 April 2024 |
a 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... 261 KB (24,673 words) - 18:14, 12 May 2024 |
the progress of significant human–computer chess matches. Chess computers were first able to beat strong chess players in the late 1980s. Their most famous... 33 KB (3,916 words) - 14:32, 1 May 2024 |
Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths... 47 KB (4,891 words) - 19:09, 24 April 2024 |
Hikaru Nakamura (redirect from Hikaru (chess)) American chess grandmaster, streamer, YouTuber, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the reigning World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy,... 130 KB (12,000 words) - 22:18, 12 May 2024 |
Mechanical Turk (redirect from Automaton Chess Player) as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine... 49 KB (6,777 words) - 13:37, 30 April 2024 |
chess (also known as antichess, the losing game, giveaway chess, suicide chess, killer chess, must-kill, take-all chess, take-me chess, capture chess... 15 KB (1,755 words) - 09:13, 11 May 2024 |
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"... 20 KB (1,985 words) - 15:51, 13 October 2023 |
Bobby Fischer (redirect from Bobby Fischer (chess career)) 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight... 224 KB (26,270 words) - 05:53, 13 May 2024 |
GUIs may offer some way of handicapping the engine's ability, to improve the odds for a win by the human player. Universal Chess Interface (UCI) engines... 108 KB (13,447 words) - 09:10, 6 May 2024 |
Elo rating system (redirect from ELO chess rating) such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating... 87 KB (11,569 words) - 13:50, 13 May 2024 |
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... 17 KB (1,969 words) - 21:55, 6 March 2024 |
Crazyhouse (redirect from Drop Chess) Crazyhouse (also known as drop chess, mad chess, reinforcement chess and turnabout chess) is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced... 6 KB (739 words) - 03:36, 24 April 2024 |
Xiangqi (redirect from Chinese chess) Wade–Giles: Hsiang ch'i; English: /ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular... 82 KB (9,947 words) - 14:45, 5 May 2024 |