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In chess, where results are simply win/loss or draw, strength of schedule is the idea behind the methods based on the games already played: that the player that played the harder competition to achieve the same number of points should be ranked higher. In other games, results may supply more data used for breaking ties.
Hearthstone is a 2014 online digital collectible card video game produced by Blizzard Entertainment, released under the free-to-play model. Originally subtitled Heroes of Warcraft , Hearthstone builds upon the existing lore of the Warcraft series by using the same elements, characters, and relics.
Chess Informant: 1966– 4 times a year Serbia General Chess Life: 1946– Monthly United States General CHESS magazine: 1935– Monthly England General Chess Player's Chronicle: 1841–56 1859–75 1877–1902 Monthly England General - Chess Review: 1933–1969 Monthly United States General - Chess Today: 2000–2020 Daily Online/e-mail General
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
A Short History of Chess. McKay. ISBN 0-679-14550-8. OCLC 17340178. Eales, Richard (1985). Chess, The History of a Game. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0816011957. Forbes, Duncan (1860). The History of Chess: From the Time of the Early Invention of the Game in India Till the Period of Its Establishment in Western and Central Europe. London: W.H. Allen ...
CHESS Magazine (ISSN 0964-6221), also called CHESS and previously called CHESS Monthly, is a chess magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by Chess and Bridge Limited. CHESS was founded by Baruch Harold Wood in 1935 in Sutton Coldfield. Wood edited it until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press and changed its name to Pergamon ...
Chess (Northwestern University) The Chess Game; List of chess games; List of chess historians; Chess in Africa; Chess in early literature; Chess in the arts; The Chess Players (Favén) Collins Kids organization; Comparison of top chess players throughout history; Nathaniel Cooke; Courier chess; Cox–Forbes theory; Croatian checkerboard
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancestor to similar games like xiangqi and shogi —in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with ...