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	Chess Game Play
		The chess pieces should be set up on a standard chessboard with a white square in the near right hand corner.
		Chess openings are a sequence of moves, often memorized, which will help a player build up their position and prepare for the middlegame.
		Valuations differ slightly from book to book, but generally, queens are worth 9 points, rooks are worth 5, bishops and knights are worth 3, and pawns are worth 1.
	www.chesshere.com /resources/game_play.php (1136 words)

	Process
		The minor pieces are moved to try to win an exchange of pieces (exchange is when one piece takes a piece and is captured itself) or gain control of the board to improve board position or control better than your opponent.
		Moves of the pieces Each piece moves in a different way, this helps to put a point value, or strength of the piece compared to the other pieces..
		This ability to move as a 3 point Bishop and as a 5 point rook gives it the value of both pieces (5 + 8) plus one point for the ability to move as both pieces in the same move.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /HayfieldES/GTNews/chess.htm (1984 words)

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		A 4 point penalty is also invoked for each attack by the opponent to a backward pawn and for a backward pawn on a half-open file.
		This bonus ranges from about 15 points for a pawn on the second rank up to about 300 points for a passed pawn on the 7th rank which can't be stopped from queening.
		The penalty is about 24 points for being in the centre in the opening with a bonus of about 36 points for being in the centre in the endgame.
	alumni.imsa.edu /~stendahl/comp/txt/gnuchess.txt (1124 words)

	Chess Pieces
		To underscore the highest value of the King relative to other pieces in a chess game, in early computer chess programs, the king was assigned a value of 200 points.
		To underscore the value of the Bishop relative to other chess pieces in a chess game, in early computer chess programs, the Bishop was assigned a value of 3 points.
		To underscore the value of the Pawn relative to other chess pieces in a chess game, in early computer chess programs, the Pawn was assigned a value of 1 point.
	www.chesslab.com /rules/chesspieces.html (498 words)

	Chess piece point value - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In chess, the chess pieces are often assigned certain point values that help determine how valuable a piece is strategically.
		These values are useful to players, and are also used in computer chess to help the computer figure out what moves to make.
		The value of the king is infinite since its loss causes the loss of the game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess_piece_point_value (760 words)

	Chess Guide > Strategy & Tactics
		A piece is said to defend or to protect a piece of the defender's color if, in case the defended piece were taken by the opponent, the defender could recapture right away.
		A skewer is a move which attacks two pieces in a line, similar to a pin, except that the enemy piece of greater value is in front of the enemy piece of lesser value.
		The most common of which is a direct "contact check" while being protected by one of her own pieces, for instance white knight g5, fl king on g8 and the queen mates at h7, or white bishop at f6 or h6 and the white queen on g7 mates the fl king on g8.
	www.chess.freegames.eu.com /strategy-tactics/index.html (2856 words)

	The Chess Page
		This enables the use of a unique rule - captured pieces may be returned to the board on the side of the player who captured the piece, simply by turning the piece to point toward the opponent and dropping it on a square.
		Chess reached its present form in the 15th and 16th centuries, when the queen was endowed with her sweeping powers, and when castling was introduced to the game.
		Steinitz demonstrated the value of a methodical approach to development and the use of small advantages (such as two bishops against a bishop and knight) that is taken for granted today.
	www.stmoroky.com /games/chess/chess.htm (3464 words)

	Chess Applet - Homeostatic Computer Chess Player Applet
		Chess (and other games, such as go) belongs to this class of problems in computer science called "intractable," due to the "combinatorial explosion" of the branching of the chess game tree.
		The chess board is modeled as a 2D array of chess pieces.
		For the chess configuration space search algorithm, a tree node object is needed which has a configuration (chess board) and a chess board evaluation function.
	www.chess.captain.at (3487 words)

	Chess piece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chess pieces used for play are usually figurines that are taller than they are wide.
		Wooden white pieces of a chess set are normally made of the light wood boxwood or sometimes maple.
		Black wooden pieces are either made of a dark wood such as rosewood, ebony, red sandalwood, or walnut; or they are made of boxwood and stained or painted fl, brown, or red.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess_piece (923 words)

	Chess piece hierarchy
		The value of a piece is given by its ability to capture other pieces and by its importance for the game.
		The fact is that the value of the piece depends a lot on the surrounding pieces and their position.
		The absolute value of a chess piece is estimated by analyzing its range of action if it were alone on the chess board.
	www.chessguru.net /get_better/piece_hierarchy (730 words)

	ChessUp.net : Chess diagrams. Chess rules. Chess blog. Chess links.
		Chess is played by all types of people (and machines) from all over the world.
		A skewer happens when a piece must move to avoid being captured, yet by moving, it allows another valuable piece to be captured.
		For example, if you have a massive number of pieces swarming down on the enemy king's position and most of your opponent's pieces are on the other side of the board, it may be worth sacrificing a piece in order to tear up the enemy pawn structure and assault the king.
	chessup.net /chess_rules.php (3004 words)

	Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - Moving Pieces and Advancing pawns - Part 1 of 4
		Combination as applied in chess has far greater importance and breadth because it pointedly refers to the recognition that the primary objective - checkmate, and the alternative objectives, draw and stalemate, can never be reached without pieces and/or pawns successfully combining their individual powers to reach the intended ultimate goal.
		She must be provided aid given up close or from afar by at least one other piece (which may be just her King) or a pawn, or more than one of either or both; that is, there must be at a minimum one combination in order to reach the conclusion to any chess game.
		If the player is unable to perceive how it will or could be able to be combined with another piece move or pawn advance either by the player or the opponent, then the player generally becomes lost in trying to successfully utilize that goal within his or her game plan.
	www.markalowery.net /Chess/Chess_intro3-1.html (1724 words)

	Chess Guide > Fisher Random Chess
		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.
		Its value, called the KRN code (pronounced "kern"), indicates the positions of the king, rooks, and knights among the remaining 5 squares.
		The first Fischer Random Chess tourney was held in Yugoslavia in the spring of 1996, and was won by Grandmaster Peter Leko.
	www.chess.freegames.eu.com /variants/fisher_random_chess.html (3596 words)

	Chess piece point value
		Clearly, calculations of the value of pieces provide an incomplete picture of the state of play.
		For the purposes of programming chess computers, however, it is often assigned a value of approximately 200 points.
		For example, half a point may be subtracted for doubled pawns, isolated pawns and backward pawns, fractions of points may be added for possession of open files, and so on.
	www.keywordmage.net /ch/chess-piece-point-value.html (200 words)

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		A cube is 6-sided but only five are showing when resting on a chess board and shows its numerical value of 5 points.
		This piece can also be displayed on it’s three inside corners and becomes a three-sided Chevron to show its point value.
		Notice its eight corner points and the vortex is the ninth point.
	www.chessblocks.com /page8.html (297 words)

	Chessville Reviews - Improve Your Positional Chess - by Carsten Hansen - Reviewed by Rick Kennedy
		If Seirawan’s Winning Chess Strategies was a shot in the arm for the new or developing chess player, Hansen’s book is a double shot for the top-club-and-better warrior.
		Black’s minor pieces are actively posted, while White’s pieces, with the notable exceptions of the rook on e1 and the knight on f5, look fairly passive.
		White’s pieces have yet to be developed, but combined with pawn advances they can be developed to more favourable squares with tempo.
	www.chessville.com /reviews/ImproveYourPositionalChess.htm (1380 words)

	Chess Corner - Chess Tutorial - Making Wise Captures
		The chess pieces are assigned certain points to show how valuable they are.
		If a piece is attacked more times than it is defended, it is possible that you will gain something by capturing it.
		When there are lots of pieces on the board the effects of your extra piece will not be felt as much.
	www.chesscorner.com /tutorial/basic/capture/capture.htm (750 words)

	Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - My Chess Philosophy
		The chessboard upon which the game of chess is played is somewhat akin to a blank canvas or piece of paper, albeit with a familiar basic pattern presented to the players - the checkerboard pattern of alternating colored squares.
		Another example of this relative value aspect is important when considering whether to engage in exchanges or trades of pieces and/or pawns.
		The World Chess Federation (Fédération Internationale des Échecs, referred to as FIDE from its French acronym) is the international overall chess organization that unites national chess federations and directs the chess world.
	www.markalowery.net /Chess/My_Chess_Philosophy.html (937 words)

	Free Online Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When you attack a piece that the opponent can't move without losing a piece of greater value, that is called a pin.
		When the piece of greater value is the king, this is called an absolute pin, otherwise it is called a relative pin.
		This example is a mute point due to the relative pin giving checkmate as well, but you get the idea.
	www.chessmaniac.com /2006/07/pins-in-online-chess.php (786 words)

	About ChessViewer
		GIF piece graphics at multiple sizes (images by William Dyche, used with permission).
		Upper-case pieces are used for white, lower-case for fl.
		"flpiece" and "whitepiece" are the colors of the chess pieces [these are obsolete in version 2].
	www.chessclub.com /chessviewer/about.html (1258 words)

	ChessGames.com F.A.Q.
		That is chess notation: a method of describing moves played on the chessboard.
		The Encylopedia of Chess Openings, or "ECO" for short, is a famous chess publication that attempts to chronicle all major chess opening variations into five volumes (A-E) providing readers with a comprehensive collection of modern opening theory.
		If you see an important chess game that we are missing, you may submit the game (in PGN format) to us, by using our PGN Upload Utility.
	www.chessgames.com /chesshelp.html (3723 words)

	1:Ch-Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The modern chess pieces were settled on from the Medieval period--thus there is a King a Queen, two Bishops, two Knights (which look like horses), to Rooks (which look like castles), and eight Pawns.
		This is absolutely crucial to understanding the real value of a Knight during a game (i.e., when "jumping" over pieces is needed, one needs a Knight.) This somewhat unusually movement, is one of the more interesting aspects of the game.
		But, if the piece is one square to the left or right and in front of the pawn than the Pawn can attack it.
	commhum.mccneb.edu /dweber/Chess/1Ch-Lesson_files/Ch_hints_1.htm (2719 words)

	Civil War Chess Set and Pieces Themed Decorativee Chess Sets
		Every chess piece is meticulously hand-painted and finished by the finest craftsman to create a splendid collector's chess set perfect for any decor
		This chess set showcases with great authenticity of detail the major figures, both presidential and military, of this turning point in American history.
		The Civil War chess set comes with a beautiful custom storage case, protecting each valuable chess piece, and doubling as a perfectly sized chessboard.
	www.chesscentral.com /sets-pieces-chess/civil-war-chess-sets.htm (222 words)

	RealChess.com Secrets
		and the other white chess pieces on it (not pawns) is rank #1.
		piece or two left and are unable to achieve mate.
		piece depending on the relative value of the pieces.
	www.realchess.com /chesssecrets.html (4279 words)

	THE VALUE OF THE PIECES
		You probably realise that some pieces are stronger than others.
		The ROOK is stronger than a Knight or a Bishop: it is worth FIVE POINTS.
		So, when we are playing a game of chess the most important thing we are trying to do is GET CHECKMATE.
	www.chesskids.com /grownups/slv1ch5.htm (898 words)

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