However, a fianchettoed position also presents some opportunities for the opposing player: if the fianchettoed bishop can be exchanged, the squares the bishop was formerly protecting will become weak ( see glossary of chess # Hole ) and can form the basis of an attack ( particularly if the fianchetto was performed on the kingside ).

He played in the strong Paris 1867 chess tournament ( won by Ignatz von Kolisch ) with little success, placing near the bottom of the field.

It is reported that he was a regular customer of Slaughter's Coffee House, St. Martin's Lane at Cranbourn Street, where he earned a little money from playing chess.

For a long time it was a widely held opinion that computer Go posed a problem fundamentally different to computer chess insofar as it was believed that methods relying on fast global search compared to human experts combined to relatively little domain knowledge would not be effective for Go.

In an interview in 2011, Vladimir Kramnik ( World Champion 2000 – 07 ) said about Anand: " I always considered him to be a colossal talent, one of the greatest in the whole history of chess "; and " I think that in terms of play Anand is in no way weaker than Kasparov but he's simply a little lazy, relaxed and only focuses on matches.

A schoolmaster, Atkins treated chess as a hobby, devoting relatively little time to it and playing in only a handful of international tournaments.

Schaeffer reached national master strength in chess while in his early 20s, but has played little competitive chess since that time.

Two of the submissions of which he had little recollection involved a spaceship-destroying machine, similar to Norman Spinrad's " The Doomsday Machine ", and a situation in which Kirk had to play a chess game with an advanced intelligence using his crew as chess pieces.

Actually, a little hunchback who was an expert chess player sat inside and guided the puppet ’ s hand by means of strings.

Blackburne's introduction to blindfold chess was a little later: in November 1861 Louis Paulsen give a simultaneous blindfold exhibition in Manchester, beating Blackburne among others ; Blackburne was soon playing chess blindfolded with three players simultaneously.

He went on to become a professor of philosophy at Indiana University, and his academic career left him little time for chess.

David Hooper and Ken Whyld note that Denker may have been unfortunate in that his best years came during World War II, when very little competitive chess was being played.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess ; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

By the late 1950s he was playing very little chess and he mainly worked on his prodigious library which by now had completely filled the living room in his flat which he shared with his wife and daughter.

His chess writings, Schach-Meistersteich ( Mühlhausen 1918 ), Kleines Schachlehrbuch ( Mühlhausen 1920 ), and the earlier problem collection Caissa Bambergensis ( Bamberg 1902 ), are little remembered today.

A rook ( borrowed from Persian رخ rokh, Sanskrit रथ rath, " chariot ") is a piece in the strategy board game of chess.

The chess game between " Kronsteen " and " McAdams " in the early part of the James Bond movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and David Bronstein in 1960 in which Spassky (" Kronsteen ") was victorious.

* vulcan Open source 3d chess program (" inspired by Star Trek ")

") across a plague-ridden landscape, undertaking a game of chess with the personification of Death until he can perform one meaningful altruistic act of conscience ( overturning the chess board to distract Death long enough for a family of jugglers to escape in their wagon ).

Minishogi ( 5五将棋 gogo shōgi " 5V chess " or " 5 × 5 chess ") is a modern variant of shogi ( Japanese chess ).

Smyslov ( pronounced " smis-LOFF ") first became interested in chess at the age of six.

The president of the International Chess Federation — known as " The Arbiter " for his role as the tournament's referee — speculates on the origins of the game of chess (" Story of Chess ") before announcing the location of the upcoming world chess championship: the northern Italian town of Merano.

She reflects cynically about chess and politics (" Nobody's Side ") before heading off to the Merano Mountain Inn for the peaceful meeting she has scheduled between Freddie and Anatoly.

Robert Löhr's 2005 book " Der Schachautomat " ( translated in 2007 by Anthea Bell as " The Secrets of the Chess Machine ") is a fictional account of the origins of the mechanical Turk featuring a chess playing dwarf.

The zwischenzug ( German: " intermediate move ") is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move ( commonly a recapture of the capturer of a piece that the opponent has just captured ) first interposes another move, posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, then plays the expected move.

In German, Schütze ( " archer ") became a general word for a chess bishop until displaced by Läufer (" runner ") in the 18th century.

In 1987, the book De Koning (" The King ") was published, which contained 162 of his chess columns, all but the last written between 1950 and 1983, collected by Tim Krabbé and Max Pam.

" Country Song " ( also known as " The Red Queen ") is a ballad filled with chess metaphors.

This version ( also called " Wolf and Sheep ," " Hounds and Hare ," or " Devil and Tailors ") is played on an 8 × 8 chess / checkerboard.

Black has a full, standard chess army (" sepoys ") in the usual position.

Sutovsky is considered to be one of the most creative chess players, since 2006 he has his own column − " Jeu créateur " (" Creative chess ") in major French chess magazine Europe Échecs.

One of his chess books, " Spillet i mitt liv " (" The game in my life ") written between 1968 and 1975, was considered chess book of the century in an informal poll held by the Norwegian chess federation in 1999.

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

Afterwards, the earth rises again from the sea, is fairer than before, and where Asgard used to be a remnant of the Æsir gather, some coming up from Hel, and talk and play chess all day with the golden chessmen of the ancient Æsir, which they find in the grass ( Section 58 ).

He is the author of KnightCap, a reinforcement-learning based chess engine.

Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history.

He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System ( My System ), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems ( The Practice of My System ), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade ( The Blockade ), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System.

It is said that 99 out of 100 chess masters have read Mein System ; consequently, most consider it to be Nimzowitsch's greatest contribution to chess.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

This is most often used in wargaming, though many abstract strategy games such as Abalone, Agon, hexagonal chess, and connection games use hexagonal layouts.

* Blitz chess, a chess game in which each player is allotted only five minutes

Chess is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee, and international chess competition is sanctioned by the World Chess Federation.

* The cardinal is also a fairy chess piece, also known as the archbishop

( The lesser-known game " Chinese chess ", or xiangqi, is from China.

Some have criticized the obvious stagings in this film as being at odds with Vertov's credos of " life as it is " and " life caught unawares ": the scene of the woman getting out of bed and getting dressed is obviously staged, as is the reversed shot of the chess pieces being pushed off a chess board and the tracking shot which films Mikhail Kaufman riding in a car filming a third car.

The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8 × 8 chessboard so that no two queens attack each other.

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.