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Left to right: white king, black rook, black queen, white pawn, black knight, white bishop

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 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. White moves first, followed by Black. The game is won by checkmating the opponent's king, i.e. threatening it with inescapable capture. There are several ways a game can end in a draw.

The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as they are known today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games and is played by millions of people worldwide. (Full article...)

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Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to practice even in the absence of human opponents, and also provides opportunities for analysis, entertainment and training. Computer chess applications that play at the level of a chess grandmaster or higher are available on hardware from supercomputers to smart phones. Standalone chess-playing machines are also available. Stockfish, Leela Chess Zero, GNU Chess, Fruit, and other free open source applications are available for various platforms.

Computer chess applications, whether implemented in hardware or software, utilize different strategies than humans to choose their moves: they use heuristic methods to build, search and evaluate trees representing sequences of moves from the current position and attempt to execute the best such sequence during play. Such trees are typically quite large, thousands to millions of nodes. The computational speed of modern computers, capable of processing tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of nodes or more per second, along with extension and reduction heuristics that narrow the tree to mostly relevant nodes, make such an approach effective. (Full article...)

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The following are images from various chess-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess (1473) (from Chess in the arts)
Image 2Karel van Mander, 1600 (attributed to), Les joueurs d'échecs (from Chess in the arts)
Image 3Stamp of the USSR devoted to the accomplished Estonian player and analyst Paul Keres, 1991 (from History of chess)
Image 4Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official World Chess Champion (from History of chess)
Image 5Liberale da Verona, The Chess Players, c. 1475 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) (from Chess in the arts)
Image 6Shams-i Tabrīzī as portrayed in a 1500 painting in a page of a copy of Rumi's poem dedicated to Shams (from History of chess)
Image 7World Champions José Raúl Capablanca (left) and Emanuel Lasker in 1925 (from History of chess)
Image 8Thomas Eakins, 1876, The Chess Players (from Chess in the arts)
Image 9In 1975, former President of Pakistan Zulfi Bhutto gifted a carved ivory set of chess to the former United States President Gerald Ford. (from Chess in the arts)
Image 10Sofonisba Anguissola, The Chess Game, 1555, National Museum, Poznań, Poland (from Chess in the arts)
Image 11Edward Harrison May, 1867, Lady Howe mating Benjamin Franklin (from Chess in the arts)
Image 12The Chess Players by Henry Fox Talbot, 1847 (from History of chess)
Image 13Iranian courtiers of the Qajar dynasty playing chess in Mazandaran. (from History of chess)
Image 14Persian manuscript from the 14th century describing how an ambassador from India brought chess to the Persian court (from History of chess)
Image 15Final match of the 1575 tournament in El Escorial. Painting by Luigi Mussini. (from History of chess)
Image 16Current World Champion Ding Liren (from History of chess)
Image 17Bobby Fischer vs. Mikhail Tal (from History of chess)
Image 18Lucas van Leyden, c. 1508, The Game of Chess, oil on oak, 27 x 35 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (from Chess in the arts)
Image 19Chess game between Tha'ālibī and Bākhazarī, 1896 painting by Ludwig Deutsch (from History of chess)
Image 20A Chess Dispute (1903) (from Chess in the arts)
Image 21Some of the earliest examples of chess-related art are medieval illustrations accompanying books or manuscripts, such as this chess problem from the 1283 Libro de los juegos. (from Chess in the arts)
Image 22Iranian shatranj set, glazed fritware, 12th century, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of chess)
Image 23Honoré Daumier, 1863, The Chess Players (from Chess in the arts)
Image 24Moors from Andalusia playing chess, Book of Games by King Alfonso X, 1283 (from History of chess)
Image 25Georgian writers, Ilia Chavchavadze and Ivane Machabeli playing chess in Saint Petersburg, 1873 (from Chess in the arts)
Image 26Hans Muelich, 1552, Duke Albrecht V. of Bavaria and his wife Anna of Austria playing chess (from Chess in the arts)
Image 27Paris Bordone, c. 1545, Chess players, oil on canvas, Mailand, Wohnhaus (from Chess in the arts)
Image 28The 12th-century Lewis chessmen in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland (from History of chess)
Image 29John Lavery, 1929, The Chess Players (from Chess in the arts)
Image 30Moors from Andalusia playing chess, Book of Games by King Alfonso X, 1283 (from Chess in the arts)
Image 31Animation of the Immortal Game, in which Adolf Anderssen, playing white, beat Lionel Kieseritzky in June 1851 (from History of chess)
Image 32Chess Set by Man Ray (from Chess in the arts)
Image 33Krishna and Radha playing chaturanga on an 8×8 Ashtāpada (from History of chess)
Image 34Gustaf Lundberg, 1775, Portrait of Gustav Badin, pastel, 74 x 57 cm, Nationalmuseum, Sweden (from Chess in the arts)
Image 35Richard Creifelds, c. 1886, The Veterans, Brooklyn Museum (from Chess in the arts)
Image 36Bauhaus chess set by Josef Hartwig (from Chess in the arts)
Image 37Antonis Mor, 1549, Von Sachsen vs. a Spaniard (from Chess in the arts)
Image 38RZA at a Hip Hop Chess Federation Tournament (from Chess in the arts)
Image 39Niccolò di Pietro, 1413–15, The Conversion of Saint Augustin, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon (from Chess in the arts)

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FIDE world ranking

Rank	Player	Rating
1	Magnus Carlsen	2830
2	Fabiano Caruana	2805
3	Hikaru Nakamura	2794
4	Ian Nepomniachtchi	2770
5	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	2766
6	Gukesh D	2763
7	Ding Liren	2762
8	Arjun Erigaisi	2761
9	Wesley So	2757
10	Wei Yi	2755
11	Viswanathan Anand	2751
12	Leinier Dominguez	2748
13	Praggnanandhaa R	2747
14	Anish Giri	2745
15	Alireza Firouzja	2737
16	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2734
17	Parham Maghsoodloo	2733
18	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	2733
19	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	2732
20	Quang Liem Le	2731

Did you know...

... that Magnus Carlsen, the current World Chess Champion, resigned a recent tournament game after only one move?

Reviewed articles

Featured articles	Good articles
First-move advantage in chess	42nd Chess Olympiad	Goryachkina, Aleksandra
Gossip, George H. D.	43rd Chess Olympiad	Guramishvili, Sopiko
List of female chess grandmasters	Abdumalik, Zhansaya	Kazarian, Anna-Maja
Mechanical Turk	Alekhine, Alexander	Kristjánsson, Stefán
44th Chess Olympiad	Anderssen, Adolf	Lasker, Emanuel
	Belenkaya, Dina	Mammadzada, Gunay
	Bindrich, Falko	Milner-Barry, Stuart
	Blübaum, Matthias	Modern Benoni
	Budapest Gambit	Muzychuk, Anna
	Bughouse chess	Nadanian, Ashot
	Carlsen, Magnus	Rudolf, Anna
	Chess in Armenia	Rules of chess
	Cramling, Anna	Staunton, Howard
	Deep Blue (Chess computer)	Steinitz, Wilhelm
	En passant	Turochamp
	Endgame tablebase	World Chess Championship 1972
	Fischer, Bobby	Zhou, Qiyu

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