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Smbat Lputian at Grandmaster Games Database (redhotpawn.com) Smbat Lputian Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org Interview with GM Smbat Lputian at Chessdom.com (24 March 2010) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-03-28)
Outside of the game of chess, "pawn" is often taken to mean "one who is manipulated to serve another's purpose". [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Because the pawn is the weakest piece, it is often used metaphorically to indicate unimportance or outright disposability, only having utility in the ability to be controlled; for example, "She's only a pawn in their game."
She is a columnist at Chess.com since 2009. [13] Has chess blogs at Sports.ru [14] and RedHotPawn.com. [15] Natalia Pogonina served as host and commentator of chess events at a number of chess websites, most notably, ChessGames.com [16] and Chessdom.com. [17] Announced in 2009 that she and Peter Zhdanov will release a book titled “Chess Kama Sutra”.
Starting position of a game of chess. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: . Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid).
The many variations include some of the sharpest and most analysed lines in chess. It has eighty chapters, B20–B99, set aside for it in ECO . 1...e5 leads to the classical Open Games , which includes openings such as the Ruy Lopez , King's Gambit , Italian Game , Scotch Game and Petrov's Defence .
Minasian won the Armenian Chess Championship six times, in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2004 and 2006. [3] He also won the final USSR Chess Championship in 1991 [4] and New York open championship in 1998. [5] He achieved a peak rating of 2620 in July 1998. [1] In December 2009, he was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the Republic of ...
The queen and pawn versus queen endgame is a chess endgame in which both sides have a queen and one side has a pawn, which one tries to promote. It is very complicated and difficult to play. Cross-checks are often used as a device to win the game by forcing the exchange of queens. It is almost always a draw if the defending king is in front of ...
The Queen's Gambit is the chess opening that starts with the moves: [1]. 1. d4 d5 2. c4. It is one of the oldest openings and is still commonly played today. It is traditionally described as a gambit because White appears to sacrifice the c-pawn; however, this could be considered a misnomer as Black cannot retain the pawn without incurring a disadvantage.