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  2. Fifty-move rule - Wikipedia

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    A precursor to chess, shatranj, had a seventy-move rule. The fifty-move rule was introduced into chess by Ruy López in his 1561 book. Pietro Carrera (1573–1647) thought that twenty-four moves was the right number but Bourdonnais (1795–1840) argued for sixty moves. [5]

  3. Chess opening - Wikipedia

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    The eleven remaining possibilities are rarely played at the top levels of chess. Of these, the best are merely slow such as 1.c3, 1.d3, and 1.e3. Worse possibilities either ignore the center and development such as 1.a3, weaken White's position (for instance, 1.f3 and 1.g4), or place the knights on poor squares (1.Na3 and 1.Nh3).

  4. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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    Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.

  5. List of chess openings - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system.The chess openings are categorised into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").

  6. List of chess gambits - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chess opening, giving the gambit name, ECO code, and defining moves in algebraic chess notation .

  7. Draw (chess) - Wikipedia

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    In chess, there are a number of ways that a game can end in a draw, neither player winning.Draws are codified by various rules of chess including stalemate (when the player to move is not in check but has no legal move), threefold repetition (when the same position occurs three times with the same player to move), and the fifty-move rule (when the last fifty successive moves made by both ...

  8. List of chess games - Wikipedia

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    Though known for his attacking play, Alexey Shirov produces "The best move of all time" [97] on move 47 of a quiet endgame to score a seemingly impossible win. [98] Tim Krabbe ranked Shirov's bishop-h3 move as the 2nd greatest move in chess, only being behind Spassky's knight-c6 against Averbakh in 1956. [99] 1999: Kasparov–Topalov, Wijk aan ...

  9. Open Game - Wikipedia

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    White opens by playing 1.e4, which is the most popular opening move and has many strengths – it immediately stakes a claim in the center, and frees two pieces (the queen and king's bishop) for action. The oldest openings in chess follow 1.e4. Bobby Fischer wrote that 1.e4 is "Best by test."