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Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White"...

Look up chess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chess is a two-player board game. Chess or CHESS may also refer to: Chess (One Piece), a fictional character...

‹ The template Infobox musical is being considered for merging. › Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group...

Algebraic notation is the standard method of chess notation, used for recording and describing moves. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely...

unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; named opening lines, see List of chess openings;...

title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain...

Hans Moke Niemann (born June 20, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March...

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject...

The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous...

open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface. Stockfish...

Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until...

Chess.com is an internet chess server. The largest chess platform in the world, the site operates on a freemium model in which some features are available...

A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious talent will...

such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the...

chess, Centaur chess or Cyborg chess Blindfold chess Chess handicap Correspondence chess Blitz chess Chess as mental training Chess boxing The Chess Variant...

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over interfering pieces. Each player begins the...

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...

(German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'), also known as the Automaton Chess Player or simply the Turk (Hungarian: A Török), was a chess-playing machine first...

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...

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...

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

American chess grandmaster, internet personality, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he...

also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Canadian chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and FIDE Master (FM)...

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...

GothamChess, is an American chess international master, entrepreneur, content creator, commentator, and author. Often referred to as "The Internet's Chess Teacher"...

The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many...

the Sinquefield Cup in September 2022, a controversy arose involving the chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann. Carlsen...

FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest...

designed for rating chess players. It is a special case of the Bradley–Terry model. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess rating system over...

A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted...

Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat...

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to...

The World Chess Championship 2026 is an upcoming chess match to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion Gukesh...

article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position...

shōgi; English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕo̞ːɡʲi]), also known as Japanese chess, is an abstract strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most...

The Chess World Cup 2025 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Goa, India, from 31 October to 27 November 2025. It was...

Handicaps (or odds) in chess are setup or rule modifications which enable a weaker player to have a higher chance of winning against a stronger one. There...

The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjacent square that is not controlled by an enemy piece; it may...

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the...

Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to...

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...

Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a variant of fast chess with...

In chess, en passant (French for 'in passing') describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made...

In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards...

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square...

July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning and five-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana...

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

There are 44 female chess players who hold the title of Grandmaster (GM), the highest title awarded by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The Grandmaster...

The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day, Fédération Internationale...

Capablanca chess, also called Knighted chess, is a family of over twenty Western chess variants which incorporate two new pieces. The family includes...

Chess notation systems are used to record either the moves made or the position of the pieces in a game of chess. Algebraic notation is the standard method...

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

Andrew Tate Jr. (December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015) was an American chess player who held the title of International Master. He is the father of internet...

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...

Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969) was a Polish-American record company executive and the founder of Chess Records...

an American chess grandmaster, commentator, and content creator. During his career, he was widely considered one of the best speed chess players in the...

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...

Three-dimensional chess (or 3D chess) refers to a family of chess variants that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells...

The endgame (or ending) is the final stage of a chess game which occurs after the middlegame. It begins when few pieces are left on the board. The line...

(9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion. He is considered a creative genius and is widely...

organised chess tournaments featuring Indian celebrities such as cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, and played chess with actor Aamir Khan. In addition to chess, he...

A chess variant is any board game related to, derived from, or inspired by orthodox chess. Chess variants can differ from standard chess in many different...

This list of chess players is ordered by their peak FIDE rating, an implementation of the Elo rating introduced by FIDE in 1971. The cut-off value is...

Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team...

The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: 1. e4 c5 1...c5 is one of the most popular responses to White's first move...

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) governs international chess competition. Each month, FIDE publishes rating lists including "Top 100 Players"...

This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Jacob Aagaard (Denmark...

history of chess began nearly 1500 years ago. The introduction of chess engines around 1960 and permanent improvement over time has made chess engines become...

The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. There is a large body of theory regarding how the game...

1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. Later commentators...

Mittens is a chess engine developed by Chess.com. It was released on January 1, 2023, alongside four other engines, all of them given cat-related names...

is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851...

Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess engine to explore the possible results of candidate moves. With this...

BOH-tez; born 1995) is an American-born Canadian chess player, poker player, online streamer and YouTuber. In chess, she holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master...

The Grand Chess Tour 2026 is a series of chess tournaments, which is the eleventh edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consists of six tournaments with...

Battle Chess is a video game version of chess with 2.5D graphics and fighting animations showing the result of one piece moving onto the square of another...

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...

chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles chess, cross chess, swap chess, or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug. The name Siamese chess is also used but...

The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title has been awarded since 1950 to players who have met the standards required by...

Chess Oscar was an international award given annually to the best chess player. The winner was selected by votes that were cast by chess journalists from...

is an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a five-time World Chess Champion, a two-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and a World Blitz Chess Cup Champion...

Sargon (stylized in all caps) is a line of chess-playing software for personal computers. The original Sargon from 1978 was written in assembly language...

Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion...

The World Chess Championship 2024 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the...

This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chess opening, giving the gambit name, ECO code...

Spanish: [ˈruj ˈlopeθ]), also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening beginning with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 White develops...

chess problems, see Fairy chess piece; terms used in chess is general, see Glossary of chess; chess-related games, see List of chess variants. Directory: ...

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...

Chess of the Wind (Persian: شطرنج باد, romanized: Shatranj-e Baad), also titled The Chess Game of the Wind, is a 1976 Iranian film written and directed...

Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...

Aeroplane chess (simplified Chinese: 飞行棋; traditional Chinese: 飛行棋; pinyin: fēixíng qí, literally "aviation game" or "flying chess") is a Chinese cross-and-circle...

eponymous Mary Chess, was owned by Henri Garceau. Mary Grace Chess was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of William E. Chess, who owned a local...

World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had...

A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run...

Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed...

Major chess events in 2025 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun defended...

Women represent a small minority of chess players at all ages and levels. Female chess players today generally compete in a mix of open tournaments and...

Queen of Chess is a 2026 American documentary film which explores the life and career of Hungarian chess grandmaster Judit Polgár. It was directed by...

World Chess Champion. He has written well-known chess books such as Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games and Reform Chess, a survey of chess variants...

Chess pie is a dessert with a filling composed mainly of flour, butter, sugar, eggs, and sometimes milk, characteristic of Southern United States cuisine...

Norway Chess is an annual closed chess tournament, typically taking place in the May to June time period every year. The first edition took place in the...

International Grandmasters for chess composition, for both chess problems and studies International Honorary Masters for chess composition International Solving...

often known as Zsuzsa Polgár) is a Hungarian-American chess grandmaster. Polgár was Women's World Chess Champion from 1996 to 1999. On FIDE's Elo rating system...

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...

Major chess events in 2026 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Prague Chess Festival, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. The Candidates Tournament...

A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament...

1983 novel by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created...

(/ˈʃɑːŋtʃi/; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular...

Indian chess is the name given to regional variations of chess played in India in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is distinct from chaturanga. There are...

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

notation to describe chess moves. Zugzwang (from German 'compulsion to move'; pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based...

Internet chess servers. Chess.com ChessBase Chessmaster Live FIDE Online Arena Free Internet Chess Server Internet Chess Club Kasparov Chess Lichess chess24...

Blindfold chess, also known as sans voir, is a form of chess play wherein the players do not see the positions of the pieces and do not touch them. This...

The camel or long knight is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. It can jump three squares horizontally and one square vertically or three...

The Champions Chess Tour (CCT) 2025–2026 was a fast chess tournament circuit organized in 2025–2026 by Chess.com. The tour started on 2 September 2025...

Atomic chess is a chess variant. Standard rules of chess apply, with the difference that all captures result in an "explosion" through which the capturing...

The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to...

The princess is a fairy chess piece that can move like a bishop or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a bishop, but may do so when...

The River Chess is a chalk stream that rises near Chesham in the Chiltern Hills in England, and flows for 11 miles (18 km) through Buckinghamshire and...

Javokhir Sindarov (born 8 December 2005) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster in 2018 at the age of 12 years, 10 months...

Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell...

Philip Chess (born Fiszel Czyż; March 27, 1921 – October 18, 2016) was a Polish-born American record company executive, the founder of Chess Records alongside...

The empress is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight. It cannot jump over other pieces when moving as a rook but may do so when moving...

In chess tournaments, an arbiter is an official who oversees matches and ensures that the rules of chess are followed. International Arbiter is a title...

draw In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, in which neither player wins. Draws are codified by various rules of chess including...

A norm in chess is a high level of performance in a chess tournament. The level of performance is typically measured in tournament performance rating...

representations of chess pieces. These allow to produce the symbols using plain text without the need of a graphics interface. The inclusion of the chess symbols...

pronunciation; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is...

a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 c6 The Caro–Kann is a common defence against 1.e4. The Caro-Kann Defense reflects general chess principles...

In chess, a fork is a tactic in which a piece attacks multiple enemy pieces simultaneously. The attacker usually aims to capture one of the forked pieces...

Several methods have been suggested for comparing the greatest chess players in history. There is agreement on a statistical system to rate the strengths...

Fritz is a German chess program originally developed for Chessbase by Frans Morsch based on his Quest program, ported to DOS, and then Windows by Mathias...

1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years...

A chess set consists of a chessboard and (nominally) 'white' and 'black' chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king...

The dabbaba, also known as the dabaaba or dabbabah, is a fairy chess piece that jumps two squares orthogonally (the directions a rook can move), leaping...

Amongst Indian chess players there are 95 Grandmasters (GM); 123 International Masters (IM); 23 Woman Grandmasters (WGM), including some who also hold...

In chess and similar games, check is a condition that occurs when a player's king is under immediate threat of capture on the very next turn. A king so...

latter term sometimes refers to the bishop+nightrider compound), is a fairy chess piece that can move any number of steps as a knight in the same direction...

Martian Chess is an abstract strategy game for two or four players invented by Andrew Looney in 1999. It is played with Icehouse pyramids on a chessboard...

The wazir or vazir is a fairy chess piece that may move a single square vertically or horizontally. In notation, it is given the symbol W. In this article...

Norway Chess, the Sinquefield Cup, and the London Chess Classic. The Grand Chess Tour was announced on April 24, 2015, at the Saint Louis Chess Club in...

ChessBase is a German company that develops and sells chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates an internet chess server for online chess...

Great chess or Large chess (Arabic: shatranj al-kabir) is a family of large board historical chess variants which were played in the Middle East and Central...

GNU Chess is a free software chess engine and command-line interface chessboard. The goal of GNU Chess is to serve as a basis for research, and as such...

Online chess is chess that is played over the Internet, allowing players to play against each other. This was first done asynchronously through PLATO and...

Checkmate (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)...

December 1974) was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor, his most renowned variants being Alice chess and Racing Kings. Many of...

Stepney. Jamar Chess is the son of Robin and Marshall Chess. His grandfather is Leonard Chess, who started Chess Records in Chicago in 1950. Chess Records was...

Alice chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration...

princess), is a fairy chess piece that can move like a queen or a knight. It may thus be considered the sum of all orthodox chess pieces other than the...

sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...

Chess Titans is a chess video game with 3D graphics developed by Oberon Games and included in Windows Vista and Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional,...

chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape...

The mann or man (plural mannen), is a fairy chess piece that may move to any adjoining square. It is similar to the king, but it is not a royal piece...

Chess Symbols is a Unicode block containing characters for fairy chess and related notations beyond the basic Western chess symbols (U+2654 to U+265F)...

Example of stalemate Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal move. Stalemate results...

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...

Chess in Wyoming refers to competitive chess played within the state of Wyoming. As of June 2026, Wyoming only has 90 players registered with the United...

The game of chess, or rather its immediate precursor, known as shatranj, was introduced to Europe from the Islamic sphere, most likely via Iberia (modern...

CHESS Magazine (ISSN 0964-6221), also called CHESS and previously called CHESS Monthly, is a chess magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by...

Hypermodernism is a school of chess that emerged after World War I. It featured challenges to the chess ideas of central European masters, including Wilhelm...

Houdini is a UCI chess engine developed by Belgian programmer Robert Houdart. It is a derivative of open-source engines IPPOLIT/RobboLito, Stockfish,...

The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids) are the official magazines published by the United...

Leonard Chess (1917–1969), record company executive Lisa Chess, American actress Marshall Chess (born 1942), American record producer Mary Chess (1878–1964)...

Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of all time. She is the only woman to...

format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data), which can be read by humans and is also supported by most chess software. This article...

Infinite chess is any variation of the game of chess played on an unbounded chessboard. Versions of infinite chess have been introduced independently...

Rani Hamid (born 14 July 1944) is a Bangladeshi chess player. She became the country's first Woman International Master in 1985. She has been the national...

Three-check chess, also simply known as three-check, is a chess variant where a player can win by placing their opponent in check three times. Apart from...

Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he placed second in the 2023 Chess World Cup, and won the 2025 FIDE Circuit...

Spherical chess is any of several chess variants played on boards composed of fields arranged on the surface of a sphere. A variant described by Don Miller...

Many of the 1,327 named chess openings and variants listed by The Oxford Companion to Chess are named for geographic places. This article uses algebraic...

The Slovak Chess Championship is the chess competition, which determines the best slovak chess player. 1993 - today - championships of Slovakia for Czechoslovak...

overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard with 32 pieces. Chess can be described as all of the...

The participation of transgender people in chess refers to transgender individuals who compete in chess tournaments. As of 2025[update], it is a controversial...

In chess, a tactic is a sequence of moves that each makes one or more immediate threats – a check, a material threat, a checkmating sequence threat, or...

Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source chess engine and volunteer computing project based on Google's AlphaZero engine. It...

The Evans Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 The Evans Gambit is an attacking line of the Giuoco...

Circe chess (or just Circe) is a chess variant in which captured pieces return to their starting positions as soon as they are captured. The game was invented...

Makruk (Thai: หมากรุก; RTGS: mak ruk; pronounced [màːk rúk]), or Thai chess (Thai: หมากรุกไทย; RTGS: mak ruk thai; pronounced [màːk rúk tʰaj]), is a strategy...

internet chess server that is free and open-source, run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously...

The Women's World Chess Championship 2025 was a match between Ju Wenjun, the current champion, and Tan Zhongyi, the winner of the Women's Candidates Tournament...

Virtua Chess (also known as Virtual Chess) is a 1995 chess video game developed and published by Titus France SA for the MS-DOS. It was later ported to...

[æliːɾeˈzɒː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɒː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating...

Human chess, living chess or live chess is a form of chess in which people take the place of pieces. The game is typically played outdoors, either on a...

including Circe chess, Madrasi chess, Andernach chess, monochromatic chess, patrol chess, Einstein chess [lt], and Descartes chess. New chess pieces: Conventional...

The grasshopper is a fairy chess piece that moves along ranks, files, and diagonals (like a queen) but only by hopping over another piece. The piece to...

Colossus Chess is a series of chess-playing computer programs developed by Martin Bryant, commercially released for various home computers in the 1980s...

Total Chess World Championship 2026 will be the first Total Chess World Championship, announced by Norway Chess on October 15, 2025, approved and endorsed...

used to classify chess openings in the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings. The five-volume encyclopaedia was first published by Chess Informant between...

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...

Chess with different armies (or Betza's Chess or Equal Armies) is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1979. Two sides use different sets of fairy...

Knightmare Chess is a fantasy chess variant published by Steve Jackson Games (SJG) in 1996. It is a translation of a French game Tempête sur l'échiquier...

In a game of chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Because pawns are the least...

Dragon by Komodo Chess (also known as Dragon or Komodo Dragon) are UCI chess engines developed by Komodo Chess, which is a part of Chess.com. The engines...

The Game of the Century is a chess game that was won by the 13-year-old future world champion Bobby Fischer against Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial...

Chess Mates is a computer software program, released in 1996 for Macintosh and 1997 for Microsoft Windows, designed to teach the basics of Chess. Chess...

Romantic chess is a style of chess popular in the 18th century until its decline in the 1880s. This style of chess emphasizes quick, tactical maneuvers...

lists female chess players who have received FIDE (International Chess Federation) titles or have other significant achievements in chess. There are 44...

Chess in Alaska refers to competitive chess played within the state of Alaska. As of March 2026, Alaska only has 118 active players registered with the...

a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, ⁣and politician. He was the 12th World Chess Champion from 1975 to 1985, a...

The Women's World Chess Championship 2026 is an upcoming chess match which will determine the new Women's World Chess Champion. It will be played between...

In chess, a pin is a tactic in which a defending piece cannot move out of an attacking piece's line of attack without exposing a more valuable defending...

Dota Auto Chess is a strategy video game mod for the video game Dota 2. Developed by Drodo Studio and released in January 2019, the game features teams...

A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first...

New Zealand-born chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM). She represented New Zealand in five Chess Olympiads and England...

The Immortal Game was a chess game played in 1851 between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky during the London 1851 chess tournament, an event in...

Deep Blue vs. Kasparov Garry Kasparov, then-world champion in chess, played a pair of six-game matches against Deep Blue, a supercomputer by IBM. Kasparov...

Wii Chess is a 2008 computer chess game developed by Nintendo and Lancarse and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It was released on January 18, 2008 in...

Chess Hiarcs Chess Explorer Lucas Chess PyChess Shane's Chess Information Database Shredder Winboard XBoard Apple Chess Battle Chess Battle vs. Chess...

General Government chess championships (Schachmeisterschaft des Generalgouvernements) were Nazi tournaments held during World War II in occupied central...

Astronomical chess or Astrological chess is a game for seven players from the book Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games), written under king Alfonso X the...

Lego Chess is a Lego-themed, chess-based strategy video game developed by Krisalis Software, published by Lego Media, and released for Microsoft Windows...

an Indian chess grandmaster. She has won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad. Deshmukh won the Women's Chess World Cup...

Omega Chess is a commercial chess variant designed and released in 1992 by Daniel MacDonald. The game is played on a 10×10 board with four extra squares...

Chess strategy is the aspect of chess play concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play. While evaluating...

In chess, by far the most common scoring system is 1 point for a win, ½ for a draw, and 0 for a loss. A number of different notations are used to denote...

Hydra was a chess machine, designed by a team with Dr. Christian "Chrilly" Donninger [de], Dr. Ulf Lorenz, GM Christopher Lutz and Muhammad Nasir Ali...

Overloading (also overworking) is a chess tactic in which a defensive piece is given an additional defensive assignment which it cannot complete without...

Gukesh Dommaraju won the 2024 World Chess Championship, becoming the youngest undisputed world chess champion at the age of 18. The Candidates Tournament...

The Hedgehog is a pawn formation in chess adopted usually by Black that can arise from several openings. Black exchanges the pawn on c5 for White's pawn...

Watermelon chess is a two-player abstract strategy game from China where it is known as xi gua qi. It is also known as the surround game and globe. Played...

In chess, the exchange is the material difference of a rook for a minor piece (i.e. a bishop or knight). Having a rook for a minor piece is generally...

China is a major chess power, with the women's team winning gold medals at the Olympiad in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2016, 2018; silver medals in 1996,...

Grand Chess is a large-board chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984. It is played on a 10×10 board, with each side having...

The zebra is a fairy chess piece that moves like a stretched knight. It jumps three squares horizontally and two squares vertically or three squares vertically...

Several amateur chess players have been noted in other endeavors, while their lives and work have been influenced by the game of chess. Woody Allen The...

Courier chess (or courier game, from the German: Läufer-spiel) is a chess variant that dates probably from the 12th century and was popular for at least...

uses Stockfish as an analysis tool. ChessBase Chess engines Chess Informant Shane's Chess Information Database "Chess Assistant 9 Professional" (PDF). Archived...

The giraffe is a fairy chess piece with an elongated knight move. It can jump four squares vertically and one square horizontally or four squares horizontally...

CHAOS (Chess Heuristics and Other Stuff) is a chess playing program that was developed by programmers working at the RCA Systems Programming division in...

Popular Chess, formerly known as Everyman Chess and Cadogan Chess, is a major publisher of books and CDs about chess. "Everyman" is a registered trademark...

The 46th Chess Olympiad will be an international chess tournament in Samarkand, Uzbekistan organized by the International Chess Federation. It will take...

Doping in chess involves the use of performance-enhancing substances in the game of chess, especially in a professional competitive context. Whether such...

Dunsany's chess, also known as Dunsany's game, is an asymmetric chess variant in which Black has the standard chess army and White has 32 pawns. This...

subtitled and later internationally released with the translated title The Chess Players, is a 1977 Indian film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based...

Eric Hansen (born May 24, 1992) is an American-born Canadian chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2013. He...

Almost chess is a chess variant invented by Ralph Betza in 1977. The game is played using a standard chessboard and pieces, except that each player's queen...

Kriegspiel is a chess variant invented by Henry Michael Temple in 1899 and based upon the original Kriegsspiel (German for war game) developed by Georg...

The Royal Game (also published as Chess and as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by the Austrian author...

released as Power Chess 98 (1997) and Power Chess 2.0 (1998). Power Chess was also the "intermediate" game included in Sierra's Complete Chess (1998) along...

Chess Kids is an Australian company (registered business name Chess World Australia Pty Ltd ) that provides a range of chess-related products and services...

Chess has a deep-rooted history in India, widely believed to have originated from the game of chaturanga during the Gupta Empire in circa 6th century...

In chess, a blunder is a critically bad mistake that severely worsens the player's position by allowing a loss of material, checkmate, or anything similar...

erroneously given the honorific Mir Sultan Khan or Mir Malik Sultan Khan) was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the...

history of chess from its integration around the 10th century to the present day. The Spanish received Shatranj, one of the predecessors of chess, from the...

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...

The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was a series of Chess960 tournaments in 2025 organized by Freestyle Chess Operations. It consisted of five "Grand...

Chess Review was an U.S. chess magazine published from January 1933 to October 1969 (Volume 37 Number 10). Until April 1941 it was called The Chess Review...

Chess puzzle by Raymond Smullyan Monochromatic chess is a chess variant with unknown origin. The initial board position and all rules are the same as...

Pure Chess is a chess video game by British developer VooFoo Studios. Pure Chess was released for the PlayStation Vita and the PlayStation 3. The PS3...

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...

A History of Chess is a book written by H. J. R. Murray (1868–1955) and published in 1913. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record...

Chess, a strategy board game, is played all over the world. The international governing body of chess is FIDE, established in 1924. Most national chess...

(born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, columnist, coach and commentator who has been the FIDE Director for Chess Development since September 2022...

In chess, a skewer is an attack upon two pieces in a line and is similar but opposite to a pin; the difference is that in a skewer, the more valuable...

PyChess is a free software chess client developed for GNU. It allows users to play offline or online via the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). PyChess...

Diving chess is a sport in which chess is played underwater. It was invented by Etan Ilfeld; and, since 2013, it has been included as one of the disciplines...

A chess diagram is graphic representation of a position in a chess game, using standardised symbols. Chess diagrams are widely used in chess publications...

A battery in chess is a formation that consists of two or more pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal. It is a tactic involved in planning a series...

Look up Chinese chess or xiangqi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chinese chess primarily refers to xiangqi, a two-player Chinese game in a family of...

Anna Yolanda Bellón Cramling (born 30 April 2002) is a Spanish-Swedish chess player, Twitch live streamer, and YouTuber who holds the title of Woman FIDE...

Marshall Chess (born March 13, 1942) is an American record producer, the son of Leonard Chess who co-founded Chess Records. Marshall worked for sixteen...

1987) is a Ukrainian chess player and Grandmaster (2008). He is also a certified chess coach and the founder of the Remote Chess Academy, an online platform...

Masonic chess is a chess variant invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1983. The game is played on a modified chessboard whereby even-numbered ranks are indented...

In chess, a fortress is an endgame drawing technique in which the side behind in material sets up a zone of protection that the opponent cannot penetrate...

The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the...

Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess is a 1990 video game published by Interplay Productions. It is a xiangqi game in which the pieces on a green field split...

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

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. In chess, an irregular opening is an opening considered unusual or unorthodox. In the early...

Abhimanyu Mishra (born February 5, 2009) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he holds the record for the world's youngest ever grandmaster...

Zappa, Zap!Chess or Zappa Mexico, is a UCI chess engine written by Anthony Cozzie, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...

Leonard Chess (1917–1969). It was directed by Jerry Zaks and written by Peter Martin Wortmann and Robert Conte, and stars Alessandro Nivola as Chess. The...

In chess, a transposition is a sequence of moves that results in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence of moves. Transpositions...

Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...

Chess Wars: A Medieval Fantasy) is a computer chess game released for MS-DOS in 1996 by WizardWorks It shows full-motion video sequences when pieces are...

In chess, a desperado has two different meanings. It can either be a piece that is en prise or trapped, but captures an enemy piece before it is itself...

Chess, also known as Robot Chess and Mate-in-Two, was a chess program developed by German scientist Dietrich Prinz, which first ran in November 1951 on...

The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...

Modern chess is a chess variant played on a 9×9 board. The game was invented by Gabriel Vicente Maura in 1968. Besides the usual set of chess pieces, each...

French chess grandmaster who is a former World Blitz Champion. With a peak rating of 2819, he is the seventh-highest rated player in history. A chess prodigy...

The first Argentine Chess Championship was held in 1921. The Champion's title was granted after victorious or drawn match between previous champion and...

Chess is one of the most popular sports in Azerbaijan, where it is governed by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). On May 5, 2009 Azerbaijani president...

the bay where they were found, are a group of distinctive 12th-century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus...

game of chess. Major chess-related events that took place in 2017 include the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World...

In chess, a combination is a sequence of moves, often initiated by a sacrifice, which leaves the opponent few options and results in tangible gain. At...

Xtracon Chess Open (formerly the Politiken Cup) is an international chess tournament and the main feature event of the annual Copenhagen Chess Festival...

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

Chess City (also referred to as City-Chess; Russian: Сити-Чесс Siti-Chess or Город Шахмат Gorod Shakhmat) is a large complex devoted to chess and chess...

गिरि; Russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Dutch chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the grandmaster...

Events in chess during the year 2015: This is a list of significant 2015 chess tournaments: 26 May: Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura clinch the top...

Chess became a source of inspiration in the arts in literature soon after the spread of the game to the Arab World and Europe in the Middle Ages. The...

Monster chess—or Super King chess—is a chess variant in which the White side has only a king and four pawns to fight against all the pieces of the Black...

Cross chess is a chess variant invented by George R. Dekle Sr. in 1982. The game is played on a board comprising 61 cross-shaped cells, with players each...

have long been involved in the game of chess and have significantly contributed to the development of chess. Chess gained popularity amongst Jews in the...

Chess Ultra is a chess video game developed and published by Ripstone for the PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in June 2017. A Switch port was released...

chatrang) is an old form of chess, as played in the Sasanian Empire. Its origins lie in the Indian game of chaturanga. Modern chess gradually developed from...

Chess-Nuts is a 1932 Fleischer Studios animated short film part of the Talkartoons series starring Betty Boop, and featuring Bimbo and Koko the Clown...

In chess, scholar's mate is the checkmate achieved by the following moves, or similar: e4 e5 Qh5 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6?? Qxf7# The same mating pattern may be reached...

Macedonian Chess Championship is organized by the Chess Federation of Macedonia. It was last held in 2011, although the Macedonian Open Chess Championship...

Spanish Chess Championship is contested annually under the auspices of the Federación Española de Ajedrez (FEDA), the governing body of chess in Spain...

Cecilia Cristina Botez (/ˈboʊtɛz/ BOH-tez; born April 6, 2002) is a Canadian chess player, commentator, DJ and internet personality. She is mostly known as...

A school of chess denotes a chess player or group of players that share common ideas about the strategy of the game. There have been several schools in...

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...

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...

November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he was widely renowned for...

an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. Rosen began playing chess as a child...

Laser Chess is a two-player, strategy video game modeled as a board game with chess-like pieces, most of which have mirrored surfaces, and one of which...

FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026 was the third official World Chess960 Championship, organized by FIDE and Freestyle Chess Operations. The...

No Castling Chess is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and thoroughly explored by DeepMind...

Enochian chess is a four-player chess variant, similar to chaturaji, associated with the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The name comes from the Enochian...

Circular chess is a chess variant played using the standard set of pieces on a circular board consisting of four rings, each of sixteen squares. This is...

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 Chess Hotel is the third full-length album from American rock band The Elms. The album was released May 2, 2006, on Universal South Records. The album...

Individual Polish Chess Championship is the most important Polish chess tournament, aiming at selecting the best chess players in Poland. Based on the...

The Grand Chess Tour 2025 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the tenth edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consisted of six tournaments with...

Business chess (Armenian chess ) is a variant of chess played in teams. It was invented in 1992 by Dr. Grachya Ovakimyan of Moscow with the aim of making...

Triangulation is a tactic used in chess to put one's opponent in zugzwang (a position in which it is a disadvantage to move). Triangulation is also called...

The chess event at the 2022 Asian Games was held in Hangzhou Chess Academy (Hangzhou Qiyuan Chess Hall), Hangzhou, China, from 24 September to 7 October...

See: List of chess books (A–F) List of chess books (G–L) List of chess books (M–S) List of chess books (T–Z) Chess endgame literature Chess in early literature...

Chess Monthly may refer to: The Chess Monthly (American magazine), New York, edited by Daniel Willard Fiske & Paul Morphy, published from 1857 to 1861...

Baroque chess is a chess variant invented in 1962 by Robert Abbott. In 1963, at the suggestion of his publisher, he changed the name to Ultima, by which...

Scachs d'amor (Valencian: [esˈkagz ðaˈmoɾ], meaning "Chess of Love"), whose complete title is Hobra intitulada scachs d'amor feta per don Francí de Castellví...

A chess composer is a person who creates endgame studies or chess problems. Chess composers usually specialize in a particular genre, e.g. endgame studies...

The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body of chess. Three different formats have been used: In 2000...

REBEL is a world champion chess program developed by Ed Schröder. Development of REBEL started in 1980 on a TRS-80, and it was ported many times to dedicated...

The Azerbaijani Chess Championship is usually held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is organised by the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF). The first championship...

The Chess World Cup 2023 was a 206-player single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 30 July to 24 August 2023. It was...

This is a timeline of chess. 6th century – The game chaturanga probably evolved into its current form around this time in India. 569 – A Chinese emperor...

The Amber chess tournament (officially the Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament, previously Melody Amber) was an annual invitation-only event for...

The Women's Chess World Cup is a women's major chess competition organized by FIDE. "Qual" refers to the number of players who qualify for the Candidates...

Army CHESS (Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions) is the main provider of commercial enterprise information technology (IT) solutions,...

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...

Undermining (also known as removal of the guard, or removing the defender) is a chess tactic in which a defensive piece is captured, leaving one of the opponent's...

are the results of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937 to date. The tournament determines the woman chess champion of the United States. 1937...

Organized gameplay of chess in Canada began in 1844, when the country's first club was founded in Montreal, Quebec. The Canadian Chess Association was founded...

Chess aesthetics or beauty in chess is the aesthetic appreciation of chess games and problems, by both players and composers. This is evident, for example...

Millionaire Chess was a company which organised the Millionaire Chess Open chess tournament. The tournament was associated with grandmaster Maurice Ashley...

The Chess Player (French: Le Joueur d'échecs) is a 1927 French silent film directed by Raymond Bernard and based on a novel by Henry Dupuy-Mazuel. It...

The Austrian Chess Federation (German: Österreichischer Schachbund - ÖSB) is the national organisation for chess in Austria. It is based in Graz. The...

A chess database is a database of chess games. Chess Assistant Chess Informant Expert Chess opening book (computers) Chess.com chess24 ChessBase Lichess...

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...

A chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs often provide for both informal and tournament games and...

Chess with Friends was a multiplayer asynchronous chess game developed by Zynga with Friends (formerly Newtoy, Inc.), which also developed Words with...

Berndtsson in Göteborg and Löwenborg in Stockholm in 1917. Until 1931 Swedish Chess Championships were decided by match play. In the 1930s, Gideon Ståhlberg...

Chess Communication was a Norwegian mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Owned by Telia Company it uses its sister company Telia Norge's (formerly...

produces volumes of a book entitled Chess Informant, as well as the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings, Opening Monographs, other...

TePe Sigeman & Co chess tournament is an annual chess tournament in Malmö, Sweden organised by Limhamns SK [sv], a local Malmö chess club. The tournament...

In chess, a sacrifice is a move that gives up a piece with the objective of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms. A sacrifice could...

The Cypriot Chess Championship is organized by the Cyprus Chess Federation (Greek: Κυπριακή Σκακιστική Ομοσπονδία), which joined FIDE in 1961. "FIDE Directory:...

Kasparov Chess is a commercial internet chess server, internet forum and social networking website. The former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is...

Alexandrovich Karjakin (born 12 January 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster and politician. A chess prodigy, he previously held the record for the world's...

In chess, a decoy is a tactic that lures an enemy man off its square and away from its defensive role. Typically this means away from a square on which...

Video Chess is a chess game for the Atari VCS (renamed Atari 2600 in 1982) programmed by Larry Wagner and Bob Whitehead with additional assistance from...

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

Portal chess is a chess variant which uses at least two fairy pieces called portals (or less commonly portholes). These pieces can be easily added by using...

Chess has been played in Armenia since the early Middle Ages; however, it was institutionalized during the early Soviet period. Highly popular in Armenia...

The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...

(born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician...

October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster who was the 17th World Chess Champion from 2023–24. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and was part of...

The World Chess Championship 1984–1985 was a match between challenger Garry Kasparov and defending champion Anatoly Karpov at the Pillar Hall of House...

Progressive chess is a chess variant in which players, rather than just making one move per turn, play progressively longer series of moves. The game starts...

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 44th Chess Olympiad (28 July – 10 August 2022) was a FIDE-organised international team chess event held in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India...

Beirut chess is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1992. The game is played using the standard chess pieces and board, with each side having secretly...

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...

Chess Scotland is the governing body for chess in Scotland. It was formed in 2001 with the merger of the Scottish Chess Association (SCA) and the Scottish...

Filipino-American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion...

The term Chess Bundesliga (German: Schach-Bundesliga) normally refers to the premier league of team chess in Germany established in 1980. It is arguably...

Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer...

Siamese chess may refer to: Bughouse chess, variant of chess Makruk, board game This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Siamese...

books Chess Bitch, Play Like a Girl, Chess Queens, and most recently, Thinking Sideways. She is also co-author of Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess. From...

The Dubrovnik chess set is a style of chess pieces. These chessmen are considered to have significant historical importance and are regarded as a timeless...

is a fairy chess piece that can jump two squares diagonally. It first appeared in shatranj. It is used in many historical and regional chess variants....

Muzičuk; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600...

A chess opening theory table or ECO table (Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings) presents lines of moves, typically (but not always) from the starting position...

German Chess Championship has been played since 1861, and determines the national champion. Prior to 1880, three different federations organized chess activities...

Chess therapy is a form of psychotherapy that attempts to use chess games between the therapist and client or clients to form stronger connections between...

World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion...

Chess Moves is a 1985 music video compilation for the musical Chess directed by David G. Hillier. Chess Moves features five music videos of songs from...

1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006...

include chess as a sport at the Olympic Games since 1924. The game made its debut as an exhibition sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Online chess debuted...

Rhombic chess is a chess variant for two players created by Tony Paletta in 1980. The gameboard has an overall hexagonal shape and comprises 72 rhombi...

In chess, the endgame tablebase, or simply the tablebase, is a computerised database containing precalculated evaluations of endgame positions. Tablebases...

Amsterdam 1956 was a chess tournament won by Vasily Smyslov. It was the Candidates Tournament for the 1957 World Chess Championship match between Smyslov...

The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) is a volunteer-run online chess platform. When the original Internet Chess Server (ICS) was commercialized and rebranded...

Combat Chess is a video game version of chess developed by Minds Eye Productions and published by Empire Interactive for Windows in October 1997. Combat...

variant of chess, presumably invented by Álvaro Semedo.[citation needed] Some chess historians[who?] dispute the existence of such chess in general....

The Opera Game was a chess game played in 1858 at Salle Le Peletier in Paris. The American master Paul Morphy played against two amateurs: the German...

Example of interference In the game of chess, interference occurs when the line between an attacked piece and its defender is interrupted by sacrificially...

of notable chess games sorted chronologically. 1475: Francesc de Castellví vs Narcís de Vinyoles, Valencia 1475. The first documented chess game played...

This example uses algebraic notation. The middlegame is the portion of a chess game between the opening and the endgame. It is generally considered to...

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...

includes: chess pieces, chessboard, chess clock, score sheets, pen to record the moves and table. A chess player playing a game of online chess, correspondence...

One of the most common ways for chess historians to trace when the board game chess entered a country is to look at the literature of that country. Although...

Cubic chess is a chess variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec beginning with an early version (named Echos) in 1977. The game substitutes cubes for the...

In chess, an exchange or trade of chess pieces is a series of closely related moves, typically sequential, in which the two players capture each other's...

Chess Fever (Russian: Шахматная горячка, romanized: Shakhmatnaya goryachka) is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai...

Zurich Chess Challenge (ZCC) was one of the major recurring international chess tournaments, combining rapid chess with classical or blitz chess. Zurich...

Spanish-Swedish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (1978). He is a five-time Spanish Chess Champion (1969, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1982), Chess Olympiad...

CuckooChess is an advanced free and open-source chess engine under the GNU General Public License written in Java by Peter Österlund. CuckooChess provides...

Chess Team is a series of 20 military science-fiction fantasy novels written by American author Jeremy Robinson, featuring the ex-Delta Force operator...

The King's Indian Attack (or KIA) is a chess opening system where White adopts the setup more commonly seen being played by Black in the King's Indian...

Triangular chess refers to a group of chess variants played on boards composed of triangular cells. The best known is a chess variant for two players,...

Hostage chess is a chess variant invented by John A. Leslie in 1997. Captured pieces are not eliminated from the game but can reenter active play through...

The Chess Classics were a series of chess tournaments held in Germany, from 1994 to 2010. They were organized by Hans-Walter Schmitt. Among other things...

Canadian chess periodicals encompasses the names, publication dates and history of the many chess magazines published in Canada. Chess Canada formerly...

The Arab Chess Championship is an annual international chess competition organized by the Arab Chess Federation, with 18 member countries. Parallel Men's...

An Albino is a type of chess problem, "in which, at some point in the solution, a white Pawn on its starting square makes each of its four possible moves...

ChessGenius is a chess-playing computer program written by Richard Lang, who has in the past written programs that have won the World Computer Chess Championship...

Cylinder chess (or cylindrical chess) is a chess variant. The game is played as if the board were a cylinder, with the left side of the board joined to...

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

Sega Chess (also known as Master Chess) is a 1991 chess video game developed by Probe Software and published by Sega for the Master System. The game can...

Grasshopper chess is a chess variant in which pawns can promote to the fairy piece grasshopper. The grasshopper (shown as an inverted queen) moves as a...

Chess in Colorado refers to competitive chess played within the state of Colorado. As of August 2025, Colorado has 868 active players registered with...

Spice Chess is an artist's multiple by the Japanese artist Takako Saito, while she was resident in the United States. Originally manufactured winter 1964–65...

Greek chess grandmaster. He is a four-time Greek Chess Champion. Born in 1976, Papaioannou earned his grandmaster title in 1998. He won the Greek Chess Championship...

Events in chess in 1970; FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - 1970 Bobby Fischer  United States 2720 Boris Spassky  Soviet Union 2670 Viktor Korchnoi  Soviet Union...

The Classical World Chess Championship 2000, known at the time as the Braingames World Chess Championships, was held from 8 October 2000 – 4 November 2000...

In chess, a relative value (or point value) is a numerical value conventionally assigned to each piece. Piece valuations have no role in the rules of...

Events in chess in 1990; FIDE top 10 by Elo rating - January 1990 Garry Kasparov  Soviet Union 2800 Anatoly Karpov  Soviet Union 2730 Jan Timman  Netherlands...

A chess table is a table built with features to make it useful for playing the game of chess. They can come in various sizes and shapes, and are usually...

international chess tournament. The tournament was conceived and organised by English player Howard Staunton, and marked the first time that the best chess players...

Cyber Chess is a chess-playing computer program developed by William Tunstall-Pedoe. It was written for the Acorn Archimedes and published commercially...

Chess Masters: The Endgame is a British television competition programme that first aired on BBC Two on 10 March 2025. The show is a spiritual successor...

1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century...

Chessgames.com is a chess website that maintains a database of chess games combined with discussion forums. Chessgames.com co-founder Daniel Freeman described...

The 1948 World Chess Championship was a quintuple round-robin tournament played to determine the new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous...

The WestBridge-Anand Chess Academy was founded by Indian chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in December 2020 in partnership with WestBridge Capital....

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition)...

Displacement chess is a family of chess variants in which a few pieces are transposed in the initial standard chess position. The main goal of these variants...

The game of chess has a history of being played in the continent of Africa. Its play in South Africa is of particular interest to chess writers and historians...

New In Chess (NIC) is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with editors such as the Grandmaster Jan Timman and chess journalist Dirk Jan ten...

73°59′58″W / 40.7292242°N 73.999317°W / 40.7292242; -73.999317 Chess Forum is a chess shop in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan. It was founded in 1995...

Chess warriors was a TV programme in 2001. It has a mixture of action and romance in the programme. 張衛健 (Dicky Cheung) as Xuē Yípiào (薛一驃)- the red horse...

Janus Chess is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Werner Schöndorf from Bildstock, Germany. It is played on a 10×8 board and features a fairy chess piece...

Chess at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games was the first SEA Games tournament since the 2013 edition in Naypyidaw. Chess will feature seven team events....

Marseillais chess (also called Double-Move chess) is a chess variant in which each player moves twice per turn. The rules of the game were first published...

Ben Kingsley, and Laurence Fishburne, it is based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin, played by Pomeranc, and adapted from the book of...

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...

Harry Chess is the central character of the first gay-themed ongoing comic strip, first appearing in the mid 1960s. He was created by Al Shapiro under...

Dynamo chess is a chess variant invented by chess problemists Hans Klüver and Peter Kahl in 1968. The invention was inspired by the closely related variant...

This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess (Polish: Szachy) is a poem written by Jan Kochanowski, first published in 1564 or 1565...

5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel is a 2020 chess variant video game developed by Conor Petersen at American studio Thunkspace, released for Microsoft...

the game of chess, was an international team chess event that took place in Tromsø, Norway, between 1–14 August 2014. The organiser was Chess Olympiad Tromsø...

A block is a defensive tactic in chess in response to an attack, consisting of interposing a piece between the opponent's attacking piece and the piece...

In chess, prophylaxis consists of a move or series of moves done by a player to prevent their opponent from taking some action. Such preventive moves...

titles join forces in a bid to stop him. In addition to online play and new chess and puzzle minigames, a revamped Konquest Mode from Deadly Alliance features...

uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess, xiangqi (Chinese), janggi (Korean)...

2025 World Blitz Chess Championship was the 27th World Blitz Chess Championship held by FIDE to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz...

Chess in Nevada refers to competitive chess played within the state of Nevada. As of August 2025, Nevada has 560 active players registered with the United...

Andy Austin Woodward (born 2010) is an American chess grandmaster and prodigy. Woodward earned his first IM norm in the 2021 North American Junior Championship...

Chess Tiger is a strong chess program developed by Christophe Théron which achieved a number of tournament successes between 2000 and 2002. Although still...

In chess, a trap is a move which tempts the opponent to play a bad move. Traps are common in all phases of the game; in the opening, some traps have occurred...

The Mystery of Chess Boxing (Chinese: 雙馬連環; pinyin: Shuāng mǎlián huán; also known as Ninja Checkmate) is a 1979 Hong Kong kung fu film written, produced...

engineer. His work led to the creation of the Deep Thought chess computer, which led to the first chess playing computer to defeat grandmasters in tournament...

Kazakhstani chess grandmaster. She is the reigning three-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion. She was given the award of Outstanding Female Chess Player...

formerly used by the English Chess Federation. A rating produced by the system was known as an ECF grading. The English Chess Federation did not switch to...

The Bangladesh National Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of Bangladesh. As of August 2025[update]: Niaz Murshed...

The Linares International Chess Tournament (Spanish: Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Linares) was an annual chess tournament, usually played...

Belle is a chess computer that was developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve...

The Saint Louis Chess Club (previously, the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis) is a chess club in the Central West End in St. Louis, Missouri...

Fritz Chess is a video game for the Wii, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation 3 developed by Freedom Factory Studios and published by Deep Silver in 2009. A mobile...

In chess, the player who moves first is called White, and the player who moves second is called Black. Their pieces are the white pieces and the black...

Championship was a chess tournament held in Doha, Qatar. The tournament was held along with the FIDE (International Chess Federation) World Rapid Chess Championship...

is an Indian chess player, journalist, commentator, and YouTuber who holds the title of International Master (IM). He co-founded ChessBase India in late...

In 1834, chess masters Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais of France and Alexander McDonnell of Ireland played a series of chess matches. These matches...

In chess, a windmill (or seesaw) is a tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating...

The game is also known as the jungle game, children's chess, oriental chess and animal chess. The Jungle gameboard represents a jungle terrain with dens...

Faustino Oro (born October 14, 2013) is an Argentine chess prodigy, International Master and grandmaster-elect. In 2023, when Oro was nine, he received...

The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve...

World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion of the game of chess. It...

Really Bad Chess (stylized as really bad chess) is a mobile video game developed by Zach Gage. It was released on October 13, 2016, for iOS, with a version...

The Bulgarian Chess Championship is an event inaugurated in 1933 to crown the best chess player in Bulgaria. The championship has been held on a nearly...

The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine...

The women's event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), was held from 2–13 September 2016 in Baku...

This example uses algebraic notation. Deflection in chess is a tactic that forces an opposing piece to leave the square, rank or file it occupies, thus...

Chessence is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1989. The board is a 6×9 rectangle of squares with eight squares missing. Each player has a king...

Simon Kim Williams is an English chess grandmaster and author who is best known under the pseudonym and Chess Server Nickname "GingerGM". In 1993, he received...

Chess in Utah refers to competitive chess played within the state of Utah. As of January 2025, Utah has 646 active players registered with the United...

[tejˈmuɾ boˈɾis oɣˈlu ɾæˈdʒæbof]; born 12 March 1987) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. A former child prodigy, he earned the title of Grandmaster...

The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament...

Richárd Rapport (born 25 March 1996) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned his grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 11 months...

The Berlin Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 The Berlin is the second most popular reply (after 3...

The Scotch Game, or Scotch Opening, is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 White strikes in the centre early with 3...

up in an orphanage in Kentucky, she is taught chess by the custodian Mr. Shaibel, and soon becomes a chess prodigy. While at the orphanage, she struggles...

870,912.) The problem appears in different stories about the invention of chess. One of them includes the geometric progression problem. The story is first...

The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's...

In chess, a grotesque is a problem or endgame study which features a particularly unlikely or impossible initial position, especially one in which White...

SPICE was founded by chess Grandmaster and Webster University professor, Susan Polgar. She served as the head coach of the Webster chess team from 2012 until...

Nolot is a chess test suite with 11 positions from real games. They were compiled by Pierre Nolot (French: [nɔ.lo]) for the French chess magazine Gambisco...

Петросян; 17 June 1929 – 13 August 1984) was a Soviet-Armenian chess grandmaster. The ninth World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969, he was nicknamed "Iron Tigran"...

novella is being considered for merging. › The Chess Master (Chinese: 棋王; pinyin: Qíwáng; lit. 'Chess King'), is a 1984 novella by Chinese writer Ah Cheng...

Петро́в; February 12, 1794 – April 22, 1867) was a Russian chess player, chess composer, and chess writer. Petrov was born in Biserovo (now part of Opochka...

Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion...

a commentator for Chess.com, covering events such as the World Chess Championship and Candidates Tournament. He also streams chess content on his Twitch...

Legan chess (or Legan's game) is a chess variant invented by L. Legan in 1913. It differs from standard chess by the starting position as well as by pawn...

Alekhine's Defence (or the Alekhine Defence) is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 Nf6 Black tempts White's pawns forward to form a broad...

Initiative in a chess position belongs to the player who can make threats that cannot be ignored, thus putting the opponent in the position of having...

Grid chess is a chess variant invented by Walter Stead in 1953. It is played on a grid board. This is a normal 64-square chessboard with a grid of lines...