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1989 chess variant by Jim Winslow
Chessence is a chess variant invented by Jim Winslow in 1989. The board is a 6×9 rectangle of squares with eight squares missing. Each player has a king
Chessence
Traditional board game for two players
Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White"
Chess
describe chess moves. For a list of: unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems;
Glossary_of_chess
Biennial international chess tournament
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the
Chess_Olympiad
1984 musical by Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Tim Rice
Chess is a 1986 musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story
Chess_(musical)
The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject
History_of_chess
2026 chess tournament in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
The 46th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from 15
46th_Chess_Olympiad
Method to convey chess moves
Algebraic notation is the standard method of chess notation, used for recording and describing moves. It is based on a system of coordinates to uniquely
Algebraic_notation_(chess)
Chess variant
see whether or not it was a bomb carrier. Atomic chess – another variant based on detonations Chessence – another variant by Jim Winslow Stratomic – another
Beirut_chess
Chess variant: goal is to lose pieces
Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated. Players must make
Losing_chess
Game piece for playing chess
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
Chess_piece
Competition to determine the World Chess Champion
+sidebar%5D%5D{{{CRITERION}}} The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju
World_Chess_Championship
Computer hardware and software capable of playing chess
Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to
Computer_chess
Internet chess server
Chess.com is an internet chess server. The largest chess platform in the world, the site operates on a freemium model in which some features are available
Chess.com
Title in chess awarded by FIDE
title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain
Grandmaster_(chess)
2024 chess tournament in Budapest, Hungary
The 45th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Budapest, Hungary, from 10 to
45th_Chess_Olympiad
Indian chess grandmaster (born 1969)
an Indian chess grandmaster. Anand is a four-time undisputed World Chess Champion, a FIDE World Chess Champion, a 13-time World Rapid Chess Champion,
Viswanathan_Anand
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up chesser in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chesser may refer to Chesser, Edinburgh Chesser Island Al H. Chesser Billy Chesser Chris Chesser Elizabeth
Chesser
Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team
Cheating_in_chess
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1963)
is a Russian chess grandmaster, political activist and writer, who was the World Chess Champion from 1985 to 2000. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851
Garry_Kasparov
armies for each player, minus one pawn. No castling. By G. Balbo (1974). Chessence: Nine pieces per player move according to their relative positions to
List_of_chess_variants
System used in chess to estimate the strength of a player
such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the
Chess_rating_system
Rules of play for the game of chess
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
Rules_of_chess
Chess piece
The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. Each player starts the game with two rooks, one in each corner on their side of the board. It
Rook_(chess)
Chess variant using two new chessmen
Capablanca chess, also called Knighted chess, is a family of over twenty Western chess variants which incorporate two new pieces. The family includes
Capablanca_chess
Upcoming chess match between Gukesh Dommaraju and Javokhir Sindarov
The World Chess Championship 2026 is an upcoming chess match to determine the World Chess Champion. It will be played between the defending champion,
World_Chess_Championship_2026
Dessert with flour, butter, sugar and eggs
Chess pie is a dessert consisting of a pie crust with a filling composed mainly of flour, butter, sugar, eggs, and sometimes milk, characteristic of Southern
Chess_pie
American chess grandmaster (1943–2008)
1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight
Bobby_Fischer
Free and open-source chess engine
open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It can be used in chess software through the Universal Chess Interface. Stockfish
Stockfish_(chess)
Hybrid game of chess and boxing
Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until
Chess_boxing
Game related to chess
A chess variant is any board game related to, derived from, or inspired by orthodox chess. Chess variants can differ from standard chess in many different
Chess_variant
Ways to improve winning chances against a stronger player
Handicaps (or odds) in chess are setup or rule modifications which enable a weaker player to have a higher chance of winning against a stronger one. There
Handicap_(chess)
Chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two
chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles chess, cross chess, swap chess, or simply bughouse, bugsy, or bug. The name Siamese chess is also used but
Bughouse_chess
Chess960 world championship
FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026 was the third official World Chess960 Championship, organized by FIDE and Freestyle Chess Operations. The
FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026
FIDE_Freestyle_Chess_World_Championship_2026
American chess grandmaster and streamer (born 1987)
American chess super grandmaster, internet personality, five-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the 2022 World Fischer Random Chess Champion. A chess prodigy
Hikaru_Nakamura
American chess grandmaster (born 2003)
Hans Moke Niemann (born June 20, 2003) is an American chess grandmaster and Twitch streamer. He first entered the top 100 junior players list on March
Hans_Niemann
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up chess in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chess is a two-player board game. Chess or CHESS may also refer to: Chess (One Piece), a fictional character
Chess_(disambiguation)
The Open event at the 46th Chess Olympiad was held from 16 to 27 September 2026. It was contested by a record number of 206 teams, representing 204 nations
Open event at the 46th Chess Olympiad
Open_event_at_the_46th_Chess_Olympiad
Indian chess grandmaster (born 2006)
Dommaraju (born 29 May 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, Gukesh is the youngest undisputed
Gukesh_Dommaraju
Amongst Indian chess players there are 99 Grandmasters (GM); 123 International Masters (IM); 23 Woman Grandmasters (WGM), including some who also hold
List_of_Indian_chess_players
International chess governing body
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ˈfiːdeɪ/ FEE-day, Fédération Internationale
FIDE
Title for chess players awarded by FIDE
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) for outstanding performance. The highest
FIDE_titles
2022 chess tournament in Chennai, India
The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, from 28 July to
44th_Chess_Olympiad
Major chess events in 2026 include the annual Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Prague Chess Festival, Norway Chess and Grand Chess Tour. The Candidates Tournament
2026_in_chess
Initial moves of a chess game
The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. A large amount of established opening theory exists
Chess_opening
Chess variant with little move time allowed
Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz chess, and bullet chess. Armageddon chess is a variant of fast chess with
Fast_chess
Chinese chess grandmaster (born 2002)
November 2002) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. She won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25. She won individual Gold at Chess Olympiad 2024, She was ranked
Zhu_Jiner
Special pawn move in chess
In chess, en passant (French for 'in passing') describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made
En_passant
American record label (1950–1975)
Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. It was the successor to Aristocrat
Chess_Records
This list of chess players is ordered by their peak FIDE rating, an implementation of the Elo rating introduced by FIDE in 1971. The cut-off value is
List of chess players by peak FIDE rating
List_of_chess_players_by_peak_FIDE_rating
Chess variant played on two boards
Alice chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration
Alice_chess
Japanese strategy board game
shōgi; English: /ˈʃoʊɡi/, Japanese: [ɕo̞ːɡʲi]), also known as Japanese chess, is an abstract strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most
Shogi
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title has been awarded since 1950 to players who have met the standards required by
List_of_chess_grandmasters
Indian chess player and YouTuber (born 1990)
is an Indian chess player, journalist, commentator, and YouTuber who holds the title of International Master (IM). He co-founded ChessBase India in late
Sagar_Shah
Title bestowed on a chess player
A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank. Such titles are usually granted
Chess_title
Chess piece
The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square
Knight_(chess)
Chess variant
Cylinder chess (or cylindrical chess) is a chess variant. The game is played as if the board were a cylinder, with the left side of the board joined to
Cylinder_chess
Chess-playing automaton hoax (1770–1854)
(German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'), also known as the Automaton Chess Player or simply the Turk (Hungarian: A Török), was a chess-playing machine first
Mechanical_Turk
Chess piece
The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, combining
Queen_(chess)
Abstract strategy game
Martian Chess is an abstract strategy game for two or four players invented by Andrew Looney in 1999. It is played with Icehouse pyramids on a chessboard
Martian_Chess
A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. The first
List of FIDE chess world number ones
List_of_FIDE_chess_world_number_ones
Variants of chess with multiple boards at different levels
Three-dimensional chess (or 3D chess) refers to a family of chess variants that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells
Three-dimensional_chess
Chess piece
The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over interfering pieces. Each player begins the
Bishop_(chess)
Topics referred to by the same term
Britain), a board game unrelated to the "chess" family, that was supplanted by western chess. Viking (disambiguation) Chess (disambiguation) This disambiguation
Viking_chess
Internet chess servers. Chess.com ChessBase Chessmaster Live FIDE Online Arena Free Internet Chess Server Internet Chess Club Kasparov Chess Lichess chess24
List of Internet chess platforms
List_of_Internet_chess_platforms
System for rating game players
designed for rating chess players. It is a special case of the Bradley–Terry model. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess rating system over
Elo_rating_system
American chess player and commentator (born 1995)
online as GothamChess, is an American chess international master, content creator, and author. Often referred to as "The Internet's Chess Teacher", he produces
Levy_Rozman
Neural network based evaluation function
stylized as ƎUИИ) is a neural network made to replace the evaluation of Shogi, chess and other board games using alpha-beta searchers running on a CPU. NNUE
Efficiently updatable neural network
Efficiently_updatable_neural_network
Medieval chess variants
Great chess or Large chess (Arabic: shatranj al-kabir) is a family of large board historical chess variants which were played in the Middle East and Central
Great_chess
1983 novel by Walter Tevis
fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and
The_Queen's_Gambit_(novel)
Chess with a randomized starting position
article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. Chess960, also known as Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant that randomizes the starting position
Chess960
Set of chess variants played on a board with hexagonal cells
Hexagonal chess is a group of chess variants played on boards composed of hexagon cells. The best known is Gliński's variant, played on a symmetric 91-cell
Hexagonal_chess
Computer program for chess analysis and game
In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards
Chess_engine
Kazakhstani chess player (born 2007)
(née Nurmanova; Kazakh: Алуа Ернарқызы Нұрман; born 25 April 2007) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM). As a member of
Alua_Nurman
Uzbek chess grandmaster (born 2005)
Javokhir Sindarov (born 8 December 2005) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster in 2018 at the age of 12 years, 10 months
Javokhir_Sindarov
Chinese chess grandmaster (born 1992)
October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster who was the 17th World Chess Champion from 2023–24. He is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion and was part of
Ding_Liren
Game of chess via postal system or e-mail
Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system. Today it is usually played
Correspondence_chess
Finding an optimal algorithm for playing chess
Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for the game of chess; that is, one by which one of the players (White or Black) can always force
Solving_chess
Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and four-time Norwegian Chess Champion. He was the main second for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2013
Jon_Ludvig_Hammer
Ending goal in chess
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture)
Checkmate
Chess variants played on spherical boards
Spherical chess is any of several chess variants played on boards composed of fields arranged on the surface of a sphere. A variant described by Don Miller
Spherical_chess
American chess player (1958–2015)
2015) was an American chess player who held the FIDE title of International Master (IM). He won the United States Armed Forces Chess Championship five times
Emory_Tate
Bughouse chess, able to be dropped into play as a move; or pieces that begin the game in a staging area off the main board, as in Ludo or Chessence. in play
Glossary_of_board_games
Indian comedian and YouTuber (born 1997)
organised chess tournaments featuring Indian celebrities such as cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, and played chess with actor Aamir Khan. In addition to chess, he
Samay_Raina
English chess master and Shakespearean scholar (1810–1874)
Howard Staunton (April 1810 – 22 June 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely
Howard_Staunton
2018 chess tournament in Batumi, Georgia
The 43rd Chess Olympiad (Georgian: 43-ე საჭადრაკო ოლიმპიადა, 43-e sach’adrak’o olimp’iada; also known as the Batumi Chess Olympiad), organised by the Fédération
43rd_Chess_Olympiad
Chess piece
The king (♔, ♚) is the most important piece in the game of chess. It may move to any adjacent square that is not controlled by an enemy piece; it may
King_(chess)
Notation indicating the writer's assessment of a chess move
bad or good are ubiquitous in chess literature. Some publications intended for an international audience, such as the Chess Informant, have a wide range
Chess_annotation_symbols
American chess grandmaster (1995–2025)
2025) was an American chess grandmaster, commentator, and content creator. He was widely considered one of the best speed chess players in the world and
Daniel_Naroditsky
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1983)
31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012
Alexander_Grischuk
Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion
Magnus_Carlsen
Young child with an aptitude for the game of chess
A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious talent will
Chess_prodigy
Internet chess website
Chessgames.com is a chess website by Chessgames Services LLC that maintains a database of chess games combined with discussion forums. Chessgames.com
Chessgames.com
Chess has been recorded as played in Australia since the middle of the nineteenth century, during which a chess club was established in Melbourne. The
Chess_in_Australia
German chess grandmaster (born 2004)
January 21, 2004) is a German chess grandmaster. Svane's older brother is Rasmus Svane. At age four, Frederik joined a chess club and began learning and
Frederik_Svane
Chess composition whose solution is a mate or other clear objective
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with
Chess_problem
Indian chess grandmaster (born 2005)
chess grandmaster. She has won two gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad. Deshmukh won the Women's Chess World
Divya_Deshmukh
International Grandmasters for chess composition, for both chess problems and studies International Honorary Masters for chess composition International Solving
List of grandmasters for chess composition
List_of_grandmasters_for_chess_composition
Chess move
Castling is a move in chess. It consists of moving the king two squares toward a rook on the same rank and then moving the rook to the square that the
Castling
Family of chess variants
Displacement chess is a family of chess variants in which a few pieces are transposed in the initial standard chess position. The main goal of these variants
Displacement_chess
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