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18 hours ago · Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.
- History of Chess
The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the...
- Talk
We would like to show you a description here but the site...
- White and Black
Some sources report that in the Immortal Game...
- Solving Chess
Solving chess consists of finding an optimal strategy for...
- Chess (Disambiguation)
Chess Titans, a computer chess game with 3D graphics...
- Draw
Draw rules. The rules allow for several types of draws:...
- Algebraic Notation
Algebraic notation. Algebraic notation is the standard...
- Tata Steel Chess Tournament
Playing hall of the 80th Tata Steel Tournament, 2018. The...
- Chatrang
Two shatranj players in a detail from a Persian miniature...
- Xiangqi
Xiangqi (Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí; Wade–Giles: Hsiang...
- History of Chess
18 hours ago · Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Rudolph competed in the 200-meter dash and won a bronze medal ...
- Wilma Glodean Rudolph
- Skeeter, The Black Gazelle, The Tornado, The Black Pearl, The Flash, The Track Star
- Wilma Glodean Rudolph
- June 23, 1940, Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, U.S.
18 hours ago · Lenny Kravitz. Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor. Born in New York to TV news producer Sy Kravitz and actress Roxie Roker, Kravitz was exposed to the entertainment industry at a young age. Kravitz grew up in a musically diverse environment.
18 hours ago · Romanization. igo. or. go. Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.
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- Casual: 20–90 minutes, Professional: 1–6 hours or more
- Spring and Autumn period to present
18 hours ago · Ängsälvor (Swedish "Meadow Elves") by Nils Blommér (1850) An elf ( pl.: elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Elves appear especially in North Germanic mythology, being mentioned in the Icelandic Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . In medieval Germanic -speaking cultures, elves generally seem to ...
18 hours ago · The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.
18 hours ago · Carnegie Mellon University ( CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, it became Carnegie Mellon University through its ...
