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After the key, after tries and set play each constitutes a phase of play. A problem with set play is said to have two phases (the set play being one phase, the post-key play being another); a problem with three tries would be a four-phase problem (each try being one phase, with the post-key play the fourth). Plays in different phases sometimes ...
This article covers computer software designed to solve, or assist people in creating or solving, chess problems – puzzles in which pieces are laid out as in a game of chess, and may at times be based upon real games of chess that have been played and recorded, but whose aim is to challenge the problemist to find a solution to the posed situation, within the rules of chess, rather than to ...
Chess.com and Lichess differ in how they handle accounts they determine to be cheating. Chess.com publicly issues permanent bans, visible as a crossed red circle icon next to the names of banned users. [1] In addition, the site refunds the rating points of players who have recently lost games to banned accounts. [11]
In chess, the threefold repetition rule states that a player may claim a draw if the same position occurs three times during the game. The rule is also known as repetition of position and, in the USCF rules, as triple occurrence of position. [1]
The internet chess server Lichess facilitates play of the game, referring to it as "antichess"; [5] after regular chess it is the most popular variant on the site in terms of numbers of games played. [8] Since 2018 the site has hosted an annual "Lichess World Championship" for the variant.
Triangulation can occur in endgames other than king and pawn endgames, such as this game in the 1965 Candidates Tournament, in which future World chess champion Boris Spassky defeated former world champion Mikhail Tal and won the right to challenge the then-current champion Tigran Petrosian. [5]
Endgame chess (or the Pawns Game, with unknown origins): Players start the game with only pawns and a king. Normal check, checkmate, en passant, and pawn promotion rules apply. [6] Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess): Played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program.
Trio-Chess: [14] Played on a 96-cell board, a center triangle splits the central files. By Van der Laken and G. J. Buijtendorp (1979). Three-Player Chess: [15] Played on a 96-cell board, the patent for this game provides suggested rules whereby kings are captured, and the player with the last-remaining king wins. The pieces of an eliminated ...