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Introduction
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 typically 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. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. 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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The zwischenzug (German: pronounced [ˈtsvɪʃənˌtsuːk], "intermediate move"; also called an in-between move) is a chess tactic in which a player, instead of playing the expected move (commonly a recapture), first interposes another move posing an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, and only then plays the expected move. It is a move that has a high degree of "initiative". Ideally, the zwischenzug changes the situation to the player's advantage, such as by gaining material or avoiding what would otherwise be a strong continuation for the opponent.
Such a move is also called an intermezzo (lit. 'intermediate move') or in-between move. When the intermediate move is a check, it is sometimes called an in-between check, zwischenschach, or zwischen-check. (Full article...)General images
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FIDE world ranking
Rank | Player | Rating |
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1 | Magnus Carlsen | 2832 |
2 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2802 |
3 | Fabiano Caruana | 2798 |
4 | Arjun Erigaisi | 2778 |
5 | Alireza Firouzja | 2767 |
6 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2766 |
7 | Gukesh D | 2764 |
8 | Wei Yi | 2762 |
9 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2755 |
10 | Wesley So | 2752 |
11 | Viswanathan Anand | 2751 |
12 | Praggnanandhaa R | 2750 |
13 | Leinier Dominguez | 2748 |
14 | Quang Liem Le | 2741 |
15 | Ding Liren | 2736 |
16 | Hans Niemann | 2733 |
17 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 2733 |
18 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2732 |
19 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2731 |
20 | Vincent Keymer | 2730 |
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