In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks their opponent and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss...

Tarrasch Trap Fishing Pole Trap Sicilian Defence: Magnus Smith Trap Siberian Trap Vienna Gambit: Würzburger Trap Fool's mate Scholar's mate Swindle (chess)...

on Gordon Korman's book Swindle Swindle (chess), a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent Swindle (Transformers), several...

swindle that succeeds only if the superior side is inattentive.[citation needed] Stalemate is also a common theme in endgame studies and other chess problems...

The World Chess Championship 2023 was a chess match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren to determine the new World Chess Champion. The match took...

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...

checkmate Choke (sports) Kotov syndrome Swindle (chess) Cleveland, Alfred A. (July 1907). "The Psychology of Chess and of Learning to Play It". American...

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move that may tempt the opponent to play a losing move. See also swindle and List of chess traps. trébuchet [from French, a type of siege engine] A theoretical...

(only) 2.5–1.5". ChessVibes. Archived from the original on 2 July 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2013. "Sinquefield 06: Magic Magnus Swindles". ChessBase News. 15...

"celebrated swindle"). Pritchard, D. B. (1994), The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, Games & Puzzles Publications, p. 107, ISBN 978-0-9524142-0-9 Chess at Wikipedia's...

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...

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...

States Chess Champion: A Biography With 220 Games, 1994, ISBN 0-89950-887-1. Frank James Marshall, Marshall's Chess "Swindles", 1914, (American Chess Bulletin...

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...

Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. It was played while the London 1851 chess tournament was in progress...

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played...

In chess, the Dragon Variation is one of the main lines of the Sicilian Defence and begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5...

The Benoni Defense, or simply the Benoni, is a chess opening characterized by an early reply of ...c5 against White's opening move 1.d4. The original...

The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess, originally published in five volumes from...

Game, Russian Defence, or Russian Game – Russian: Русская партия) is a chess opening characterised by the following moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 Though...

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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...

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...

The Queen's Gambit Declined (or QGD) is a chess opening in which Black declines a pawn offered by White in the Queen's Gambit: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 This...

The Benko Gambit (or Volga Gambit) is a chess opening characterised by the move 3...b5 in the Benoni Defence arising after: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5...

World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...

In chess, there is a consensus among players and theorists that the player who makes the first move (White) has an inherent advantage, albeit not one...

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...

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...