The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjoining square; it may also perform, in tandem with the rook, a...

Chess King was a United States men's clothing retailer created by the Melville Corporation. From its founding in 1968, it grew to over 500 locations by...

This is a list of chess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants estimates that there are well...

Chess is a board game for two players, each controlling a set of chess pieces. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish...

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...

Daniel John King (born 28 August 1963) is an English chess grandmaster, writer, coach, journalist and broadcaster. King achieved the International Master...

either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color...

having friends on the outside anymore. Chess Man gives him a wooden king chess piece, telling him, "take care of the King, everything else follows". Upon release...

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...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

Chess King was an American men's clothing retailer 1968–1995. Chess King or King of Chess may also refer to: King (chess), the most important piece in...

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 king passed over...

traditional Chinese: 王者榮耀; pinyin: Wángzhě Róngyào, unofficially translated as "King of Glory", or alternatively transliterated as Wangzhe Rongyao) is a multiplayer...

The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...

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...

restrict the movement of the enemy king. Not all chess games reach an endgame; some of them end earlier. All chess positions with up to seven pieces on...

on the fate of one piece, the king of modern chess. A common theory is that India's development of the board, and chess, was likely due to India's mathematical...

the standard method for recording and describing the moves in a game of chess. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely identify each square...

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...

The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally, combining...

Black's bishops. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The king's bishop is placed on f1 for White and f8 for Black; the queen's...

some lines in the classical King's Indian Defense and in the Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defense. Professional chess players spend years studying...

Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others...

(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) and there...

a tyrant black king chess piece whose workers have left him for the popular, nicer white king piece. To reclaim their pieces, the king piece carries and...

squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess game, each player begins with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops...

The Staunton chess set is the standard style of chess pieces, recommended for use in competition since 2022 by FIDE , the international chess governing body...

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

Chess or the King's Game (German: Das Schach- oder Königsspiel) is a book on chess. It was published in Leipzig in 1616 under the name of Gustavus Selenus...

In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...