Chess on a really big board is a large chess variant invented by Ralph Betza around 1996. It is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 16 pieces (on the back ...

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 ...

History · Rules · Chess piece · List of chess variants

The history of chess can be traced back nearly 1,500 years to its earliest known predecessor, called chaturanga, in India; its prehistory is the subject of ...

This is a list of chess variants. Many thousands of variants exist. The 2007 catalogue The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants estimates that there are well over ...

Los Alamos chess · Dunsany's chess · Hexagonal chess · Really Bad Chess

The queen (♕, ♛) is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. It can move any number of squares vertically, horizontally or diagonally , combining the ...

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated ...

List of fairy chess pieces · Amazon (chess) · Princess (chess) · Wazir (chess)

A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of ...

Category · Relative value · Fairy chess · Chess set

Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture ) ...

Checkmate pattern · Category:Chess checkmates · Checkmate (disambiguation)