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Parent topics
- Game [r]: A structured or semi-structured contrived activity, primarily undertaken for enjoyment or, sometimes, practice. [e]
Subtopics
- Chess clock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess composition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess rules [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess strategy [r]: Describes the fundamental concepts for success in the game of chess; divided into the study of two different categories: strategy and tactics, and into three distinct phases: the opening, middle game, and endgame. [e]
- Chess tactics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess opening [r]: The critical first moves in a game of chess that set the stage for the rest of the game. [e]
- Chess terminology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess variants [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess960 [r]: Fischer Random Chess, with some pieces randomly positioned at the start. [e]
- Computer chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Correspondence chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Blindfold chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Blitz chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bullet chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
Organizations and events
- Federation Internationale des E'checs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Correspondence Chess Federation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Women's World Chess Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World Chess Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess Olympiad [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess tournament [r]: Add brief definition or description
World Champions
. . . including unofficial World Champions . . .
- Alexander Alekhine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adolf Anderssen [r]: German chess player (1818-79), considered the strongest player in the world, known for his extremely tactical style which produced some of the most famous games in history. [e]
- Mikhail Botvinnik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jose Raul Capablanca [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Max Euwe [r]: Dutch chess player (1901-81), world champion from 1935-37, and President of International Chess Federation (FIDE) from 1970-78. [e]
- Robert James Fischer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anatoly Karpov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gary Kasparov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Emanuel Lasker [r]: German chess player (1868-1941), world champion 1894-1921; he approached the game as if it were a battle, and not merely a cold scientific endeavor. [e]
- Paul Morphy [r]: American chess player (1837-84) who, after defeating the best players in Europe, was considered the strongest player in the world, but then immediately retired from the game. [e]
- Tigran Petrosian [r]: Armenian / Soviet chess player (1929-84) who was noted for his stubborn defensive playing style; world champion 1963-69. [e]
- Vassily Smyslov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Boris Spassky [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Howard Staunton [r]: English chess player and Shakespearean actor and scholar (1810-74); considered the strongest chess player in the world mid-19th century. [e]
- Wilhelm Steinitz [r]: Austrian chess player (1836-1900) who won the first official world championship match and whose theories and play revolutionized the game. [e]
- Mikhail Tal [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other important chess personalities
. . . players, organizers, writers . . .
- Vladimir Nabokov [r]: (1899-1977) Russian-American novelist and poet; wrote Lolita and Pale Fire. [e]
- Paul Rudolf von Bilguer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Edward Bird [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Bronstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bernhard Horwitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Louis Charles de La Bourdonnais [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander McDonnell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aron Nimzowitsch [r]: (November 7, 1886, Riga – March 16], 1935, Denmark) was a chess player of grandmaster strength and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns. [e]
- Judit Polgar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nona Gaprindashvili [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nikolai Krylenko [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Byrne [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mikhail Chigorin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reuben Fine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Keres [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Réti [r]: (1889-1929), An Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player and chess problemist whose writings become 'classics' in the chess world; New Ideas in Chess (1922) and Masters of the Chessboard (1930) are still studied today. [e]
- Nigel Short [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vera Menchik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harold James Ruthven Murray [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Veselin Topalov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Viktor Korchnoi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Viswanathan Anand [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vladimir Kramnik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Johannes Zukertort [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Siegbert Tarrasch [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- François-André Danican Philidor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frank Marshall [r]: Add brief definition or description
Chess tournaments
- London 1851 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- London 1862 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vienna 1873 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- London 1883 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- St. Petersburg 1909 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New York 1924 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moscow 1935 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nottingham 1936 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
Other chess-type games
- Shogi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chinese chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other board games
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- Adriaan de Groot [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Binet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess notation [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arpad Elo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Artificial intelligence [r]: The field of science and engineering involved with the study, design and manufacture of systems that exhibit qualities such as adaptivity, complexity, goal pursuit, reactiveness to surroundings, and others that are commonly attributed to "intelligence." [e]
- Benjamin Franklin [r]: 1706-1790, American statesman and scientist, based in Philadelphia. [e]
- Café de la Régence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Candidate Master [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chaturanga [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CHESS 3.0 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess piece [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess prodigy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chessboard [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Claude Shannon [r]: (1916-2001) A theoretical mathematician and electrical engineer, one of the foundational researchers in computer and communications design. [e]
- Combination (chess) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David H. Li [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Pritchard (chess writer) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deep Blue [r]: Add brief definition or description
- El Ajedrecista [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess rating systems [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Zermelo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- European Individual Chess Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- European Team Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fairy chess piece [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Free Internet Chess Server [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gioacchino Greco [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Giulio Cesare Polerio [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Handbuch des Schachspiels [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hydra (chess) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Interference (chess) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Internet Chess Server [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jacobus de Cessolis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Janggi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Josef Kling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kurnik [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lacny [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lewis chessmen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Libro de los juegos [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Linares chess tournament [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Luis Ramirez de Lucena [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Makruk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- North American Computer Chess Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Novotny (chess) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pedro Damiano [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Professional Chess Association [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rapid chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ruy López de Segura [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rybka [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Loyd [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shatranj [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Simpson's-in-the-Strand [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Book of the Courtier [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Royal Game [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Turk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Three-dimensional chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tri-Dimensional Chess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Caxton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World Chess Champion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World Chess Solving Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- World Junior Chess Championship [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Xiangqi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Xu Yuhua [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zwischenzug [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Game theory [r]: A field of mathematics commonly associated with economics that provides models for behavior in many diverse situations, and is used in many academic fields from politics to computer science. [e]
- Encyclopedia of Chess Openings [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess tactics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chess problems [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Check (board game) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Checkmate [r]: Add brief definition or description

