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  Chess Guide - Online Games Information
Chess (the "Game of Kings") is a board game for two players, which requires 32 chesspieces (or chessmen) and a board demarcated by 64 squares.
Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art".
Chess is played both recreationally and competitively in clubs, tournaments, on-line, and by mail (correspondence chess).
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 Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Alice
Alice was also addicting, although it took some practice to be able to survive for more than a few minutes.
Alice didn't have a menu bar, so it was sort of part of the game to figure out how to invoke the preferences.
Alice was announced at the launch and featured in the original brochure, but it didn't became available until a couple of months later.
www.folklore.org /StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Alice.txt   (1487 words)

  
 Alice Chess
Alice Chess is a chess variant played using two chess boards rather than one.
All pieces move in the same way as in standard chess, except that Alice Chess is normally played without the en passant rule (see rules of chess).
Black can also not play Kd7 to move his king onto the other board, because this move is not legal on the board on which it is played (the king on d7 on the first board is still in check).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alice_chess.html   (309 words)

  
 Chess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chess is a two-player strategy board game of pure skill and one of the deepest and most complex games commonly played.
Chess is played on a square board divided into 64 squares upon which move 16 "white" and 16 "fl" pieces.
In May 2002, several leaders in the chess world met in Prague and signed a unity agreement which should ensure the crowning of an undisputed world champion by 2003, and restore the traditional cycle of qualifying matches by 2005.
www.findword.org /ch/chess.html   (991 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter I: Looking-Glass House
Alice begins an imaginative conversation with Kitty, pretending that her pet talks back, and asks her to pretend that she is the Red Queen in a chess game.
Alice discovers that the room on the other side of the mirror is nearly identical to her old room, showing the motif of inversion that reappears throughout the text.
Alice appears invisible to the chess pieces, which is one aspect of the inversion that occurs in Looking-Glass House.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/alice/section13.rhtml   (1051 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: Themes, Motifs & Symbols
Alice’s journey through Looking-Glass World is guided by a set of rigidly constructed rules that guide her along her path to a preordained conclusion.
Alice recites nursery rhymes on several occasions, which causes Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the Lion and the Unicorn to perform the actions that she describes in her rhymes.
Alice skips forward several spaces when she finds herself unexpectedly on a train, shooting through the forest toward her destination and mimicking Alice’s forward movement as a pawn in the chess game.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/alice/themes_1.html   (1477 words)

  
 FRC/Chess960 - Chess Terms Glossary
Hans-Walter Schmitt (chairman of the Frankfurt Chess Tigers e.V.) is an advocate of this chess variant, and he started a brainstorming process to choose a new name for FRC.
Fischer Random is a version of chess that I developed or invented, you could say, where you shuffle the back row of the pieces, not the pawns.
Fischer's goal was to create a chess variant in which chess creativity and talent would be more important than memorization and analysis of opening moves.
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 Chess - Glasgledius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chess is a two-player strategy board game of pure skill and one of the deepest and most complex games commonly played.
Chess is played on a square board divided into 64 squares upon which move 16 "white" and 16 "fl" pieces.
In May 2002, several leaders in the chess world met in Prague and signed a unity agreement which should ensure the crowning of an undisputed world champion by 2003, and restore the traditional cycle of qualifying matches by 2005.
www.glasglow.com /E2/ch/Chess.html   (901 words)

  
 Can Machines Think? (A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation)
In the third instance, the chess question is an example of an endgame problem.
Moreover, there is a distribution of chess endgame problems that the interrogator is likely to ask.
Certainly it is possible to interface ALICE to any type of chess playing program, just as it could be interfaced to a calculator.
www.alicebot.org /articles/wallace/turing.html   (352 words)

  
 Alice chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All pieces move in the same way as in standard chess, except that Alice chess is normally played without the en passant rule.
Additionally, moves must be legal under normal chess rules on the board on which they are played; so in the last position, for example, Black cannot play 3...Qd4, because under the rules of chess, it cannot hop over the pawn on d7.
However, 3...Bg1 is possible, despite the fact there is a white pawn on f2 on board A: the fl bishop has started out on board B, the move Bc5-g1 is legal there, and the square g1 is empty on board A. This is all that matters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice_Chess   (302 words)

  
 Alice in Wonderland Chess Set Pieces | Chess Sets at The Chess House
Alice in Wonderland, brought to the land of the chess set and board, is the famous tale by Lewis Carroll of a girl who falls asleep while listening to her sister read a story, and dreams that she enters a magical wonderland, by first falling down an extremely deep rabbit hole.
To be more correct, floating would be the term, and after having a soft landing upon reaching the depths of the hole, she proceeds to explore her discovery, and meets many incredible adventures along the way.
The pawns of the chess set are the well-known March Hare, at whose house the infamous Mad Tea Party is being held.
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 Amazon.com: Alice Box Set--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (Books of Wonder): Books: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland is the much more enjoyable tale of the two, perhaps because so much of it was already familiar to me as a part of popular culture.
The Alice stories are some of the greatest classics of children's literature, but their bizarre nature and intriguing mathematical, philosophical, and theological speculations make them interesting for adults and thinkers as well.
Alice also encounters the Duchess and her baby (a pig), the Cheshire cat (who fades away leaving only his grin), the Madhatter (mad no doubt from mercury poisoning), the March Hare, and the Dormouse having tea, and then she encounters the Queen of Hearts playing croquet as well as the "mock turtle".
www.amazon.com /Set-Alices-Adventures-Wonderland-Through-Looking-glass/dp/0688120504   (3477 words)

  
 SchemingMind.com - Online Correspondence Chess Club. Play free online chess and chess variants
Alice Chess, created by Vernon Parton in 1958, retains the essence of the gameplay, but invests the game with an ingenuity and a power unavailable in our standard.
Alice Chess is the brainchild of Vernon Rylands Parton (1897-1974).
In October 2004 Alice Chess has been voted by the members of the international community ChessVariants.org as Recognised Variant of the Month, and the original texts from Mr.
www.schemingmind.com /journalarticle.aspx?article_id=9   (4390 words)

  
 Chess Guide > Alice Chess
Alice Chess is a chess variant played using two chess boards rather than one.
All pieces move in the same way as in standard chess, except that Alice Chess is normally played without the en passant rule (see rules of chess).
A short game of Alice Chess (notated in algebraic notation) might run 1.
www.chess.freegames.eu.com /variants/fantasy/alice_chess.html   (306 words)

  
 Defense Against Middleperson Attacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She is concerned that someone might run the Chess Grandmaster attack, using her chess skills without her knowledge or consent, and taking the credit if she wins.
Alice is ready to choose the first move in the chess game.
Alice decrypts M2 and verifies Bob's digital signature using his public key as included in the message, and verifies that her public key as included in the message is correct.
zooko.com /defense_against_middleperson_attacks.html   (673 words)

  
 The Lewis Carroll Society Website - Lewis Carroll and Chess
The story’s link with chess is faulty in many ways, but these are explained if the story is considered as arising from introducing Alice and her sisters to chess pieces and what they are for.
In chess, the two sides are always known as Black and White regardless of the colour of the physical pieces, but Lewis Carroll refers to Red and White, the usual colours of an ivory chess set.
The Alice books have inspired some variants invented by Vernon Parton, including Alice chess (played on two boards – after every move, the piece played is transferred to the other board), Cheshire Cat chess (every time a square is vacated it disappears although pieces may subsequently pass over it to move).
lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk /pages/lewiscarroll/randrchess.htm   (3130 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Books: Lewis Carroll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place.
As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game.
Rendered in a traditional style, unlike the surrealistic approach chosen by Anthony Browne in his recent edition of Alice, these illustrations are set amidst a treasure trove of Victoriana: Alice plummets past a dusty bell jar surrounded by crumbling leatherbound volumes, the Duchess perches on a Chinese oriental carpet beside a tufted leather footstool.
www.amazon.ca /Alices-Adventures-Ground-Lewis-Carroll/dp/0486214826   (1024 words)

  
 Stage 3 Research Group - Carnegie Mellon University
In Alice, we have incorporated a library called Connect15 with the goal of reducing the amount of networking code an Alice author has to write to make a networked Alice world.
For the 3D Chess World, the chess pieces need to appear at the same position in the world for both players so that each player can observe the board position (much as they would if they were playing chess across a table rather than across a network).
In the 3D Chess world, there is an obvious way to partition the pieces; one player has permission to move the white pieces, the other player can move only the fl pieces.
www.alice.org /stage3/3dchess.html   (510 words)

  
 Alice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), the eponymous heroine of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Alice Heine, Princess of Monaco and wife of Albert I of Monaco
Alice of Alice and Bob, one of two canonical characters used in cryptography discussions
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice   (342 words)

  
 Alice Through the Looking-Glass
We go to Alice's house, where she discovers that she can step through a mirror into the "Looking-Glass World"--a land laid out like a huge checker board inhabited with living chess pieces and amusing characters from English fairy-tales.
Lewis reappears, and he and Alice sing the poem that closes the book, again recalling the "golden afternoon" on the Thames when he first told her the story.
Seen as unwitting self-portraits, his books are amusingly insightful studies of an eccentric Oxford Professor: he was a poetic intellectual delighted with gadgetry, an absent minded bachelor, a wry and insightful observer of human folly, a jokester mathematician laughing away the darkness, a selfless friend, a cultured loner with a devoted love for children.
www.osborne-conant.org /alice.htm   (1413 words)

  
 Alice In Wonderland (1933 b 76')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Alice swims in her tears with Mouse, and a Dodo Bird (Polly Moran) dries her off with history.
Alice sees an egg become Humpty-Dumpty (W. Fields), who asks her questions and explains what words mean.
Alice finds everyone at a banquet singing that she is queen.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1933/AliceInWonderland.html   (373 words)

  
 New Alice Items for Purchase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
George Walker is the wood engraver of the first Canadian edition of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland with an introduction by Joseph Brabant.
Victor Huerta uses Alice as a vehicle to show the wonderland left by the Cuban revolution.
First 4 sculptures from the Alice series by Karen Mortillaro - the White Rabbit is spot on.
collectalice.home.comcast.net /new.html   (1006 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Time trouble — how to deal with it
Dorian writes: "Due to its specific character and difficulty, the subject of time trouble is also poorly reflected in the chess literature.
Just like in many other aspects of chess, to understand the problem (the right diagnosis) is half of the solution.
Here's a fine Alice chess set with time trouble white rabbits as pawns.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1357   (293 words)

  
 Chess Sets SIAB Mascott
These beautiful chess sets are very nicely made of a unique resin composite material.
Reynard the fox chess pieces are carved to a design produced by Von Kaulbach for Goethe's translations of the poem.
A very interesting chess piece set has come to be known as "The Lewis Chessmen." There are 78 original sets know, of which 67 are in the British Museum, and the other 11 are in the National Museum in Edinburgh.
www.nicetoys.com /siabchess.html   (3519 words)

  
 The Chess Piece - for the best theme chess sets and chess prices
This Alice in Wonderland theme chess set comprizing 32 chess men was hand-carved and hand-painted by our sculptor in the UK Note that all similar pieces are not the same-compare the rabbits for instance!
Date Added: 4/28/2006 10:33:24 AM Although this chess set is new, it has a nineteenth century flavor and faithfully captures the personality of the illustrated characters in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland story.
The chess pieces were packed carefully and arrived in excellent condition.
www.thechesspiece.com /proddetail.asp?prod=AlicePainted002   (253 words)

  
 1973 CHESS SET FROM URUGUAY
Chess set was hand carved, hand decorated (she doesn't use instruments to make the designs or flowers), and hand painted by
This is the original version of the chess set.
At this time the aR was not placed on the pieces, but make no mistake about it, this is an old aR original.
www.collectibleworld.net /en-us/p_1175.html   (242 words)

  
 The Alice in Wonderland Chess Set Pieces - SAC Hand Painted | The Chess House
The chess set pieces are based on the characters in Lewis Carroll's famous Alice stories.
Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Didgson, was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford when he wrote the stories to amuse and entertain the young children of the Dean of Christ Church.
The White King and the Red King are the king, with Alice, of course as the queen.
www.chesshouse.com /ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SACA145P&click=7645   (445 words)

  
 The Review - Outdoor chess comes to East Falls
The pavilion is filled with heavy concrete chess tables that are often occupied by shrewd chess players contemplating their next move.
The group was inspired to acquire the tables for the park after reading an article about Philadelphia School District CEO Paul Vallas' goal to introduce the game of chess to every student in the district by 2006.
Reiff said that since the tables were installed a group of young people has gathered at the tables at night not to play chess, but to hang out.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14567802&BRD=1680&PAG=461&dept_id=40301&rfi=6   (642 words)

  
 Williamsburg Chess Club
the focus of the williamsburg chess club for wayward men and ladies is obviously standard chess and attendant strategic theories.
most of these variants were taught to the chess club by alex trotter, a faithful regular and shogi expert.
the object is the same as standard chess, to deliver checkmate.
humanchess.typepad.com /chessclub   (1029 words)

  
 Chess - V&A Museum of Childhood
Chess originated in India around the 7th century, became popular in Persia (now Iran) soon afterwards and made its way to Europe in the 10th century.
The Alice chess set uses the colour variation of red and white as opposed to the more usual fl and white.
The Alice game features characters from the book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, a story which itself is based on a game of chess.
www.vam.ac.uk /moc/collections/games/board_games/chess/index.html   (250 words)

  
 Alice Chess
The best sort of variant,” unfortunately for my case he goes on to say “but maybe too difficult for me. I've only played one game and that gave me nightmares!” It does take one into a chess dream-world where the logic is disturbingly different from normal and space is strangely distorted.
There is essentially only one rule-change from orthodox chess: (1) A second board is used, initially empty, and after a move, on either board, the moved piece is transferred to the square with the same coordinates on the other board.
Superimposing the two boards shows an orthodox position where the Bh3 is attacked twice, its diagonal is blocked at g2 and the WK has a flight at e1; but the Alice interpretation is quite different.
www.bcvs.ukf.net /alice.htm   (1032 words)

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