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  2. Chess - Wikipedia

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    Western chess. Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 ...

  3. Elo rating system - Wikipedia

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    Elo rating system. Arpad Elo, the inventor of the Elo rating system. The Elo[a] rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating system ...

  4. Garry Kasparov - Wikipedia

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    Garry Kimovich Kasparov[ a ] (born Garik Kimovich Weinstein[ b ] on 13 April 1963) is a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion (1985–2000), and naturalized Croatian political activist and writer. His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, [ 2 ] achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus ...

  5. 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棋).

  6. List of chess players by peak FIDE rating - Wikipedia

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    List of chess players by peak FIDE rating This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating. The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women.

  7. List of FIDE chess world number ones - Wikipedia

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    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. [1] The first world number one, in July 1971, was Bobby Fischer. In January 1976 Anatoly Karpov became the highest-rated player on the FIDE list, FIDE having dropped Fischer (whose rating was higher ...

  8. List of World Chess Championships - Wikipedia

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    List of World Chess Championships. Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship. The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for ...

  9. Rook and pawn versus rook endgame - Wikipedia

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    The rook and pawn versus rook endgame is a fundamentally important, [2][3][4][5][6] widely studied [7][8] chess endgame. Precise play is usually required in these positions. With optimal play, some complicated wins require sixty moves [9] to either checkmate, capture the defending rook, or successfully promote the pawn. [10] In some cases, thirty-five moves are required to advance the pawn ...

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