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[edit] July 15, 2007 - August 31, 2007
Capablanca chess, developed and named for Cuban world champion José Raúl Capablanca, who conceived of the game as a prospective replacement for chess amongst masters, whom Capablanca saw as increasingly likely to play repeated draws in view of the continued advancement of opening and endgame theory, is a chess variant that features two distinctions from traditional chess: a different board—the game is played on either a ten-by-eight or a ten-by-ten board—and two fairy pieces—an archbishop (left), which combines the knight and bishop and may move as either, and a chancellor (right), which combines the knight and rook and may move as either.
[edit] June 1, 2007 - June 30, 2007; September 1, 2007 - September 30, 2007
The knight's tour is a chess problem in which a knight is placed on an empty chessboard and, moving consistent with the rules of chess, must visit each square exactly once. Although the tour is most often completed by chess players, especially at expositions whilst blindfolded, and was renownedly solved by The Turk, a chess-playing automaton hoax, it is most often studied as a mathematical problem, an instance of a general Hamiltonian path problem in graph theory which can be solved in linear time. Under the most restrictive conditions, those requiring that the knight finishes on a square whence it attacks its starting square (closed) and that the knight begin on a specified square (producing a directed path), there are exactly 26,534,728,821,064 solutions to the problem; many other solutions are not bound by the former constraint and are known as open tours (example pictured).
[edit] April 21, 2007 - May 31, 2007
An en passant capture (illustration pictured) is a chess maneuver in which, where a player moves a pawn two spaces forward from its starting position and where such piece could have been captured by his opponent's pawn had it been moved forward just one space, an opponent may capture as if the one-rank move had occurred, but only on the turn immediately following the two-rank move. The implementation of the rule permitting such captures was one major rule changes advanced in European chess in the 14th and 15th centuries and was undertaken because the rule permitting pawns to advance two spaces had been adopted only to quicken the pace of the game and not to permit a player to escape capture.
[edit] July 14, 2006 - April 21, 2007
Image:UigChessmen SelectionOfKings.jpg
The Lewis chessmen (alternatively the Uig chessmen) compose a complete chess set thought to date to the High Middle Ages, and most probably the 12th century of the Common Era. Carved principally of walrus ivory—four pieces are fashioned from whale teeth—the pieces are believed to have been made in Norway, perhaps by craftsmen in Trondheim, and to have been transported from Norway to the Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis of which the chessmen were found in 1831, having been covered by sand in the Bay of Uig. The total cache, comprising eight kings (two pictured at left), eight queens (two pictured at left), sixteen bishops, fifteen knights, twelve rooks, and nineteen pawns, was first exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, whence they devolved on a private antiquities collector, who ultimately donated the collection to the Royal Museum in Edinburgh, where it resides. The kings, queens, bishops, knights (on horseback carrying swords and shields) and rooks (as bellicose berserkers) are shown as human figures, generally with visages of gloom whilst the pawns are small, tower-shaped figures perhaps intended to resemble gravestones.
Image:UigChessmen SelectionOfPieces.jpg
[edit] June 20 - July 14, 2006
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Semyon Zinovievich Alapin was a Russian (Lithuanian by birth) Jew active in the construction of chess puzzles and the development of openings and opening theory in the late nineteenth and early tweniteth centuries best known for having contributed to three extant principal lines of play. Alapin popularized a line in the Sicilian Defence, listed in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings as B22, in which the player with white pieces seeks to prevent the player with the black pieces from achieving a superior pawn structure and to limit the options of black by replying to 1. e4 c5 with 2. d3; the opening is thematically similar to the closed Sicilian variation. Alapin is also thought to have been the first prominent player to essay a gambit with 3 Be3 in a French Defense; this move, though generally now looked upon with disfavor, is nevertheless frequently annotated as an interesting move (!?). Alapin was responsible for the development of an eponymous opening for white, pictured, in which the reply to 1. e4 e5 is 2. Ne2; the rarely-used opening, also referred to as the Hippopotamus opening is often played who seek to avoid common open games, such as those resulting from a Ruy Lopez and Scotch Game, into the latter of which the opening sometimes transposes. Serbian Grandmaster Ljubomir Ljubojević notably employed the Alapin Opening in a game during a 1970 tournament contested in Groningen, the Netherlands.
[edit] May 26, 2006 - June 20, 2006
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Although most contemporary players record their moves in algebraic notation, descriptive notation was popular for most of the twentieth century. Here, Bobby Fischer (United States) records the game score of his 48-move victory over Miguel Najdorf (Argentina) in the third round of the 1970 Chess Olympiad, held in Siegen, West Germany. Fischer would finish the tournament having scored 10 points in 13 games, earning him a first board silver medal.
[edit] March 10, 2006 - May 26, 2006
Chess can be played almost anywhere. In this case, in a bath.
[edit] February 24, 2005 - March 10, 2006
Chess board and pieces have always been one of the favourite subjects of 3D computer graphics artists. This image depicts a Staunton chess set.
[edit] December 26, 2005 - February 24, 2005
The Turk was a famous hoax which purported to be a chess-playing automaton.
[edit] September 4, 2005 - December 26, 2005
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This 1983 Faroe Islands stamp features a chess king.
[edit] August 22, 2005 – September 4, 2005
The 1984 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov (right) and Garry Kasparov (left)
[edit] August 8, 2005 – August 21, 2005
Beijing residents playing Xiangqi (Chinese chess), a game commonly played in China.
[edit] July 19, 2005 – August 7, 2005
[edit] July 12, 2005 – July 18, 2005
A game clock consists of two adjacent clocks and buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, such that the two component clocks never run simultaneously. Game clocks are used in two-player games where the players move in turn. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each player takes for his or her own moves, and ensure that neither player overly delays the game. They are extensively used in chess.
