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  2. Three-dimensional chess - Wikipedia

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    Three-dimensional chess. Kubikschach 8×8×8 gamespace. Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which the pieces can move. In practice, this is usually achieved by boards representing different layers being laid out next to each other.

  3. Dejarik - Wikipedia

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    Dejarik, also known as holographic chess or holochess, is a primarily-fictional board game appearing in the Star Wars space opera franchise that uses holographic figures as pieces. The game has been roughly described as that universe's equivalent of terrestrial chess [a] since it is played on a board with a chequered pattern, each piece has a ...

  4. Chess piece relative value - Wikipedia

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    Chess piece relative value. In chess, a relative value (or point value) is a standard value conventionally assigned to each piece. Piece valuations have no role in the rules of chess but are useful as an aid to assessing a position. The best known system assigns 1 point to a pawn, 3 points to a knight or bishop, 5 points to a rook and 9 points ...

  5. Chess piece - Wikipedia

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    Original Staunton chess pieces Left to right: pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king. A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of ...

  6. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Rifle chess (or Shooting chess, Sniper chess): When capturing, the capturing piece remains unmoved on its original square, instead of occupying the square of the piece captured. [68] Sovereign Chess: This variant is played on a 16×16 board. In addition to the standard black and white pieces, the board is also encircled by 80 other coloured ...

  7. List of fairy chess pieces - Wikipedia

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    A fairy chess piece is a game piece that is not in regular chess but appears in an alternate version of chess with different rules. Such an alternate version is known as a chess variant . In addition, fairy chess pieces are used in fairy chess , an area of chess problems involving changes to the rules of chess.

  8. Star Wars Chess - Wikipedia

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    November 1994 (Microsoft Windows) Genre (s) Chess. Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Star Wars Chess is a 1993 chess -playing video game developed by The Software Toolworks, based on the Star Wars film franchise and published by Mindscape for DOS, Sega CD and Windows 3.x. A 3DO Interactive Multiplayer version was planned but never released.

  9. Shogi - Wikipedia

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    Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈʃoʊɡi /,[1] Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general's (shō 将) board game (gi ...