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History
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Gameplay
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Organized competition
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Connections to other fields
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- Chance
- None
- Genres
- Board game · Abstract strategy game · Mind sport
- Players
- 2
- Skills
- Strategy, tactics
- Years active
- c. 1475 to present (predecessors c. 900 years earlier)
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Overview
- Board game
- Board Chessboard
- "White" and "Black" White and Black in chess
- Pieces Chess piece
- King King (chess)
- Queen Queen (chess)
- Rooks Rook (chess)
- Bishops Bishop (chess)
- Knights Knight (chess)
- Pawns Pawn (chess)
- Basic checkmates Checkmate
- Draw Draw (chess)
- Chaturanga
- India History of India
- Similar games Chess variant
- Janggi
- Xiangqi
- Shogi
- Persia
- FIDE
- World Chess Champion
- Wilhelm Steinitz
- 1886 World Chess Championship 1886
- Gukesh Dommaraju
- 2024 World Chess Championship 2024
- Theoreticians Chess theory
- Chess composition
- Western culture
- The arts Chess in the arts
- Mathematics
Rules
- French French language
- United States Chess Federation
- Chess sets Chess set
- Staunton pattern Staunton chess set
- Jenga
- Castling
- En passant
- Adjournments Adjournment (chess)
- Bullet chess
- Rapid chess
- Blitz chess
- Fast chess
- Chess clock
- Premove
- Faster time controls Ultrabullet
- Handicaps Handicap (chess)
- Human–computer chess matches
- Chess masters Chess master
Notation
- Notation Chess notation
- Variants of algebraic notation Algebraic notation (chess)
- Punctuation marks and other symbols Chess annotation symbols
- Blunder Blunder (chess)
- Scholar's mate
- Portable Game Notation
- Markup language
- Descriptive notation
- ICCF numeric notation
- International Correspondence Chess Federation
Gameplay
- Key squares Key square
- Total value of pieces Chess piece relative value
- The exchange The exchange (chess)
- Isolated Isolated pawn
- Doubled Doubled pawns
- Backward pawns Backward pawn
- Pins Pin (chess)
- Forks Fork (chess)
- Skewers Skewer (chess)
- Batteries Battery (chess)
- Discovered attacks Discovered attack
- Zwischenzugs Zwischenzug
- Deflections Deflection (chess)
- Decoys Decoy (chess)
- Sacrifices Sacrifice (chess)
- Underminings Undermining (chess)
- Overloadings Overloading (chess)
- Interferences Interference (chess)
- Immortal Game
- Common type of chess exercise Chess puzzle
Problems and studies
- Samuel Loyd
- Chess problems
- Key Glossary of chess problems
- Chess composer
- Helpmates Helpmate
- Selfmates Selfmate
- Retrograde analysis problems
- Fairy chess
- Unconventional pieces Fairy chess piece
- Reflexmates Reflexmate
- Seriesmovers Seriesmover
- Richard Réti
- Ostrauer Ostrava
- This endgame study Réti endgame study
- Diagonal
- Studies Endgame study
- World Federation for Chess Composition
Chess in public spaces
- Hustling
- New York City
- Jardin du Luxembourg
- Kutaisi
- Mexico City
- Kilifi
- Cathedral Square Cathedral Square, Christchurch
- Christchurch
Online chess
- Elo ratings Elo rating system
- App Store App Store (iOS/iPadOS)
- Google Play Store
- Maurice Ashley
- Jennifer Shahade
- Matchmaking Matchmaking (video games)
Computer chess
- Automaton
- The Turk Mechanical Turk
- Hoax
- El Ajedrecista
- Digital computer
- Computer engineers Computer engineer
- Claude Shannon
- CHESS 3.0 Chess (Northwestern University)
- Northwestern University
- Kaissa
- IBM's Deep Blue IBM Deep Blue
- Garry Kasparov
- Category Category (chess tournament)
- Hiarcs
- HTC Touch HD
- Top Chess Engine Championship
- Stockfish Stockfish (chess)
- Cheating during games Cheating in chess
Organized competition
- Congresses Congress
- Round-robin Round-robin tournament
- Swiss system Swiss-system tournament
- Scheveningen system
- FIDE World Cup
- May be reported Chess scoring
- International Braille Chess Association
- Sports governing body
- International Olympic Committee
- Olympic Games
- World Chess Championship
- Women's World Champion Women's World Chess Championship
- Ju Wenjun
- World Junior Chess Championship
- European Individual Chess Championship
- Tournaments for the World Championship qualification cycle Candidates Tournament
- Linares Linares chess tournament
- Melody Amber
- Dortmund Sparkassen Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
- M-tel Masters
- Wijk aan Zee
- Tata Steel Tata Steel Chess Tournament
- Chess Olympiad
- European Team Chess Championship
- World Chess Solving Championship
- World Correspondence Chess Championship
- Arpad Elo
- International Master
- FIDE Master
- Candidate Master
History
- Middle Persian
- Harshacharita
- Sanskrit
- Bozorgmehr
- Dewasarm Sharvavarman
- Khosrow I
- Chatrang
- Al-Adli ar-Rumi
- Kalīla wa-Dimna
- India
- Chaturaṅga
- Sanskrit Sanskrit language
- Infantry
- Cavalry
- Elephants War elephant
- Chariotry Chariot
- Ashtāpada
- Silk Road
- Sasanian Persia
- Persian Persian language
- Muslim world
- Islamic conquest of Persia
- Shatranj
- Arabic Arabic language
- Portuguese Portuguese language
- Greek Greek language
- Afrasiab Afrasiyab (Samarkand)
- Samarkand
- Uzbekistan
- Transoxiana
Chess literature
- H.J.R. Murray
- Chess columns in newspapers
- B.H. Wood Baruch Harold Wood
- David Hooper David Hooper (chess player)
- Kenneth Whyld
- Cleveland Public Library
- National Library of the Netherlands
Connections to other fields
- Middle Ages
- Renaissance
- Noble Nobility
- King's Game Chess or the King's Game
- Baldassare Castiglione
- The Book of the Courtier
- Lewis chessmen
- Morality
- Dominican Order of Preachers
- Jacobus de Cessolis
- William Caxton
- The Game and Playe of the Chesse
- Carmina Burana
- Orthodox Eastern Orthodox Church
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh
- Age of Enlightenment
- Benjamin Franklin
- The Morals of Chess
- The arts Chess in the arts and literature
- A Game at Chess
- Through the Looking-Glass
- The Defense
- The Royal Game
- Ingmar Bergman
- The Seventh Seal
- Satyajit Ray
- The Chess Players Shatranj Ke Khilari
- Powell and Pressburger
- A Matter of Life and Death A Matter of Life and Death (1946 film)
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Nodes481
Edges480
Triples495
Avg. degree2
Density0.004158
Components1
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Chess
Top relations
related to Further reading · 87
Chess → Alexander, Alkmaar, Andrew, Angus, Approaching, Art Bulletin, Batsford Ltd, Beginners, Benjamin, Bird, Board, Bobby Fischer, Charles, Chess History, Chess Psychology, Chessmen, Company, Courier Dover Publications, CT, Date
related to 1945–1990: Post-World War II era · 36
Chess → After, Alekhine, American Bobby Fischer, As Black, Black, Botvinnik, Candidates, Capablanca, FIDE, Grandmaster, He, In, Interzonal, Interzonals, Lasker, Latvian, Marshall, Mikhail Tal, Previously, Riga
related to Computer chess · 26
Chess → ACM, At, Championship, Claude Shannon, Computer, Computing Machinery, El Ajedrecista, Garry Kasparov, He, IBM's Deep Blue, In, Kaissa, North American Computer Chess, Northwestern University, Playing Chess, Programming, September, Serious, Since, Soviet
related to Governance · 25
Chess → Association, Chess's, China, Deaf, FEE-day, FIDE, FIDE's, French, Fédération Internationale, Gukesh Dommaraju, IBCA, ICCD, India, International Braille Chess Association, International Chess Committee, International Chess Federation, International Olympic Committee, International Physically Disabled Chess, IPCA, Ju Wenjun
related to 1700–1873: Romantic era · 24
Chess → Alexander McDonnell, As, At, Café, Centers, European, Evans Gambit, France, François-André Danican Philidor, French, In, Irish, King's Gambit, La Bourdonnais, London, Louis-Charles Mahé, Open Game, Paris, Romantic, Régence
related to 1200–1700: Origins of the modern game · 19
Chess → Arabic, Arabs, Around, Castling, Europe, European, In, Italy, Libro, Mad Queen Chess, Pawns, Queen's Chess, Southern France, Spain, Spanish, The, These, Valencia, Western Europe
related to 1873–1945: Birth of a sport · 17
Chess → After, Czech-English, Emanuel Lasker, FIDE, German, In, Johannes Zukertort, Olympiad, Paris, Prague-born Wilhelm Steinitz, Romantic, Steinitz, The, This, Vera Menchik, Women's World Chess Championship, World Chess Championship
related to Origins · 17
Chess → Bozorgmehr, Chatrang, Chatrang-namak, Dewasarm, Harshacharita, India, Khosrow, Middle Persian, Murray, One, Pahlavi, Persia, Sanskrit, Texts, The, Three, Translation
related to Psychology · 17
Chess → According, Adriaan, Alfred Binet, Compared, De Groot, Ericsson, Fernand Gobet, For, Groot, In, More, Northern Hemisphere, Rather, Recent, The, There, When
related to Chess in public spaces · 16
Chess → Although, Cathedral Square, Christchurch, FranceMen, Georgia, Jardin, KenyaGiant, Kilifi, Kutaisi, Luxembourg, Mexico City, MexicoChess, New York City, New Zealand, Paris, Public
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Important terminology
game moves players pieces world king pawn fide games player move first one also checkmate draw pawns two may number
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chess | Chance | None | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chess | Genres | Board game | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chess | Genres | Abstract strategy game | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chess | Genres | Mind sport | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chess | Players | 2 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chess | Skills | Strategy, tactics | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chess | Years active | c. 1475 to present (predecessors c. 900 years earlier) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Chess | is a | board game for two players | 0.90 | text |
| Chess | is a | organized sport with structured international and national leagues | 0.90 | text |
| mathematics | instance of | and has relevance to other fields | 0.80 | text |
| computer science | instance of | and has relevance to other fields | 0.80 | text |
| and psychology | instance of | and has relevance to other fields | 0.80 | text |
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