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  2. Chessmaster 2000 - Wikipedia

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    Antic found that Chessmaster 2000 defeated Colossus Chess and Odesta Chess. The magazine criticized the Atari 8-bit version's playability, stating that "the 3-D display is unusable even on a very good monitor–you can't tell the overlapping pieces apart", lack of a chess clock, and poor documentation and controls. [10]

  3. List of world records in chess - Wikipedia

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    Before the introduction of chess clocks, it was common for players to take more than an hour to decide on a move. Among the players who had a reputation for playing particularly slowly (taking over 2 hours for a move) are Alexander McDonnell and Elijah Williams , however, it was not normal practice to time a player's moves so claims about the ...

  4. Shogi strategy - Wikipedia

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    Shogi, like western chess, can be divided into the opening, middle game and endgame, each requiring a different strategy.The opening consists of arranging one's defenses and positioning for attack, the middle game consists of attempting to break through the opposing defenses while maintaining one's own, and the endgame starts when one side's defenses have been compromised.

  5. Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov - Wikipedia

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    Regarding the end of game 2 and 44.Kf1 in particular, chess journalist Mig Greengard in the Game Over film states, "It turns out, that the position in, here at the end is actually a draw, and that, one of Deep Blue's final moves was a terrible error, because Deep Blue has two choices here. It can move its king here or move its king over here.

  6. Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends - Wikipedia

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    The actor said he discussed this scene with the director who pleased with the result. Kenshin's strongest technique, the Amakakeru Ryū no Hirameki, was Satoh's favorite move as he likes its meaning. While Kenshin shouts his attacks' names in both manga and anime, Satoh instead decided to say the names after performing those moves. [13]

  7. Chess - Wikipedia

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    It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). Chess is an abstract strategy game which involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square game board called a chessboard containing 64 squares arranged in ...

  8. Alekhine's gun - Wikipedia

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    Alekhine's gun is a formation in chess named after the former world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. It is a specific kind of battery . This formation was named after a game he played against Aron Nimzowitsch in Sanremo 1930, ending with Alekhine's decisive victory.

  9. Alexandre Deschapelles - Wikipedia

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    Alexandre Deschapelles (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ deʃapɛl]; March 7, 1780 in Ville-d'Avray near Versailles – October 27, 1847 in Paris) was a French chess player who, between the death of François-André Danican Philidor and the rise of Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world.