The rook is not severely restricted by the edge of the board. There are chess pieces that lose in scope when they are placed on an edge of the board. The knight is one of the pieces that suffer most in such cases, making itthe weakest piece in chessunder certain circumstances. The roo...
Board diagram - a simple diagram showing only a single board position, with no moves attached. Chess problem group - a section to hold a number of chess problems in a structure which formats all the problems as a group. Chess problem - a move list describing a Chess problem that can be...
The diagram shows a three-level tree that looks three moves ahead and has evaluated the value of the final board positions. The computer is playing as the white player. The black player has moved and left the board position at the top of the tree. In this tree, white can make three po...
idChess is a mobile app for recognizing, digitizing, and broadcasting offline chess games, played on a real board. The app recognizes chess moves during the gam…
(2 players, chess set, checkers set, and deck of cards)Chess Golf makes players race to plan the best route, as the pieces caddy each other around the board. (1 or more players, chess set, deck of cards, timer, coins, pencil and paper)...
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Once a pawn has reached the end of the board, it is eligible to change into anymajororminorpiece the player wishes for it to turn into (king, queen, bishop, or knight). Get a new queen and win! In the diagram above, the white pawn one7can promote when it moves toe8on White’s...
Chess strategy is concerned with evaluation of chess positions and with setting up goals and long-term plans for the future play. During the evaluation, players must take into account numerous factors such as the value of the pieces on the board, control of the center and centralization, the ...
It is certainly possible, however, that Freeling was unaware of this and came up with the idea independently. After all, on the deeper board, it may have made sense to allow the pawns to promote early so that they would not have to travel farther. That said, in orthodox Chess, pawns ...