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5 days ago · FIDE Laws Of Chess 2023. During the 91st FIDE Congress held in Chennai (India), the General Assembly approved the amendments to the Laws of Chess. Read More.
5 days ago · Basic Rules of Chess. Objective: The goal is to checkmate your opponent’s king, meaning the king is in a position to be captured (in check) and there is no legal move to escape. Setup: The chessboard consists of 64 squares, arranged in an 8x8 grid. Each player starts with 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, and 8 pawns.
3 days ago · SK - STANDARD rating K factor. RK - RAPID rating K factor. BK - BLITZ rating K factor. B-day/BORN - year of birth of a player. ID NUMBER - identification number of a player within FIDE database. NAME - name of a player. TIT/TITL - title of a player (g - Grand Master, wg - Woman Grand Master, m - Interntional Master, wm - Woman International ...
6 days ago · Many variants employ standard chess rules and mechanics, but vary the number of pieces, or their starting positions. In most such variants, the pawns are placed on their usual squares, but the position of other pieces is either randomly determined or selected by the players.
3 days ago · Follow the latest news from the world of chess. Breaking stories about tournaments, events, players, and the state of the game.
2 days ago · Some chess variants do not feature castling, such as losing chess, where the king is not royal, and Grand Chess, where the rooks have significantly more opening mobility. In a handicap game with rook odds, the player giving odds may castle with the absent rook, moving only the king.
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2 days ago · Amongst Indian chess players there are 85 Grandmasters (GM); 124 International Masters (IM); 23 Woman Grandmasters (WGM), including some who also hold the higher IM title; and 42 Woman International Masters (WIM) as of May 2023, according to FIDE, the International Chess Federation.
