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	Tempo (chess) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In chess, tempo refers to the time taken by a move.
		A simple example of losing a tempo may be moving a rook from a1 to a5 (see algebraic chess notation) and from there to a8; simply moving from a1 to a8 would have achieved the same result with a tempo to spare.
		When the two kings stand in opposition, for example, the player to move is often at a disadvantage (zugzwang) and so must triangulate in order to return to the same position but with the opponent to move.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tempo_(chess) (384 words)

	Opposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opposition (astronomy), a term describing the position of a celestial body
		Opposition (politics), an organised political group that serves to offer opposing views to the government
		Opposition (chess), a term describing the position of the kings relative to each other
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opposition (109 words)

	Beckett, Duchamp and Chess
		The most immediately obvious of these is the chess position known as "trebuchet", which gave its title to the Readymade of 1917: a coat rack with four hooks, which is nailed to the floor, hooks uppermost.
		Thus the general formula for heterodox opposition in the principal domains is as follows: without the move, the White King has the heterodox opposition when he occupies, on a right hand adjacent file to the file occupied by the Black King, a square of opposite colour to that occupied by the latter.
		At the end of the chess game between Mr Endon and Murphy, which culminates in Murphv's resignation, he (Murphv) experiences a 'transcendental sense of disappointment', which leads eventually to the realisation that he is incapable of achieving Mr Endon's state of complete hermetic detachment.
	www.mti.dmu.ac.uk /~ahugill/writings/chess.htm (5733 words)

	Chess Glossary
		It is a combination of letters and numbers (a to h and 1 to 8) which denotes the 64 squares of the board.
		A clock which, in addition to serving the usual functions of a Chess clock, adds a certain amount of time to each player's clock after each move, in order to avoid desperate time scrambles at the end of a game, which often result in poor moves.
		Such Bishop is very active because it is positioned on a square of the opposite colour to the squares on which most of its Pawns are stationed.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/glossary.htm (4349 words)

	Chess Informant Chess Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For example, in classic chess, all the endings where one side has a king and a pawn, while the other side has only the king become finally a draw if the weaker side has opposition.
		Chess Informant Chess is especially conveninet for playing on the Internet, as it is very easy to make a promotion.
		Chess Informant Chess is a version of chess in which the pawn is much stronger compared to the classic chess.
	www.flyordie.com /chess/informant-chess.html (482 words)

	Transition Phase
		But it took so long to play a whole game that most players confined themselves to solving Chess ditties, i.e., special positions contrived by problem composers in which a hidden winning maneuver has to be discerned.
		Opposition to the game in the past has abated as it has distinguished itself from gambling and time wasting games.
		Chess is played in many eastern countries which shows that the game has global appeal.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/chesmayne/transition_phase.htm (370 words)

	Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - Endgames : Introduction
		King Opposition (or simply "the opposition") is the concept used to determine whether a player or the opposing player may gain an advantage (positional superiority and/or temporal advantage) toward checkmating, to force pawn promotion, or some other goal.
		For distant opposition, determination of which player has the opposition depends whether the number of squares between the Kings are an even number of squares, or an odd number of squares.
		King opposition situations may either be latent (able to be forced on the opposing player) or be the present situation on the board.
	www.markalowery.net /Chess/Endgames/Endgames.html (3904 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Chess king Kasparov goads Putin with 'alternative summit'
		Since he swapped chess for opposition politics a year ago, Mr Kasparov has been transformed from one of Russia's all-time heroes to one of the Kremlin's most hated men.
		The Kremlin is worried that the chess master's conference will upset the carefully co-ordinated public relations drive before the summit, the first time it has been held in Russia.
		Mr Kasparov, 43, said he hoped the two-day meeting would act as "a mirror on the reality of Russia" for the G8, demonstrating that Mr Putin was an autocrat intent on erasing the freedoms won since the collapse of communism.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/11/wkasp11.xml (675 words)

	MATHEMATICS 177 ENDGAMES WITHOUT PIECES
		The opposition, or distant/potential opposition, are strategic prizes which you may keep as long as you like, but can give up at any moment, usually in exchange for the queening of one of your pawns.
		The opposition is a particularly mysterious asset: endgames are often won or lost because of it, sometimes with the players unaware of it's role in their game.
		The opposition is valuable because with it's help, you may force your opponent's king away from a pawn it is guarding, allowing you to capture it.
	math.uww.edu /faculty/mcfarlat/177endg2.htm (356 words)

	BlueEyedRook
		Technically, it means a “situation in a chess game in which a player is forced to make an undesirable or disadvantageous move.” Literally, it is a situation where a chess player would ultimately like to “pass on his/her turn” (i.e., let his/her opponent move twice).
		Opposition is one of those sophisticated words chess enthusiasts use to describe a relatively simple phenomenon (not too different from “fiachetto” or “zugszwang”).
		Opposition is important in chess because often endgame victory depends not on the king reaching a single key square but a series of them.
	blueeyedrook.blogspot.com (9158 words)

	Sports News - Chess
		Chess, game of skill between two people that is played using specially designed pieces on a square board comprised of 64 alternating light and dark squares in eight rows of eight squares each.
		The bishop moves as far as desired in any diagonal direction, but is confined to squares of the color on which it began the game.
		The knight moves a distance of exactly two squares to a square of the opposite color.
	archive.wn.com /2005/09/17/1400/chess (1001 words)

	Begin Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The opposition is one of the most important things to learn in order to succeed in the endgame.
		The rule of the opposition is: whoever is to move when there is an odd number of squares between the Kings does not have the opposition.
		Another way to look at the opposition is if it’s your turn to move and your King is separated from your opponents by an even number of squares, then you do not have the opposition.
	www.beginchess.com (402 words)

	Chessville - The Great Pawn Hunter - with Manny Paddy Fealy (and Whiskey) - Piece Opposition
		In diagram #2, White obtains the "piece opposition" for himself by moving to the square (d4).
		Now, white uses the "King's Opposition" to force the opposing king away from the defense of the (e) pawn.
		Black is forced to either move his king from protecting the pawn (when White will capture it and the game) or move his knight from protecting one of the pawns, with the same result.
	www.chessville.com /GreatPawnHunter/PieceOpposition.htm (744 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Demonstrations in the Chess Republic
		A few weeks ago there was political unrest in Kalmykia, over what opposition parties there perceive as dubious ballot results in the recent parliamentary elections to the Duma.
		Kalmyk opposition leaders immediately concluded that the count was grossly exaggerated, alleging that the result had been falsified and asking that it be declared null and void.
		It is alleged that the police and OMON special troops erected roadblocks and sealed off government buildings in the city to prevent opposition members from infiltrating key targets.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1384 (448 words)

	Chessblog
		Kf2 white maintains the opposition, but fl has a winning move.
		The correct answer to the quiz was to gain the distant opposition with 1.
		Some wonder why it wouldn't be better to seize the opposition directly with 1.
	radio.weblogs.com /0127398/2003/07/24.html (49 words)

	newsv01n04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As the next moves illustrate, with the opposition fl is able to force the white king away from the promotion square and win the game.
		There is very good chess teaching software available, which allows one to study and practice a variety of chess themes, such as openings, master games collections, middlegame tactics, and endgame strategy.
		The main reason I'm writing this article is not to publicize BOOKUP to the chess club, but rather to describe some projects I'm working on that use Bookup 2000 as a teaching/training tool, and for practice in sharpening chess playing skills in the opening, middlegame, and endgame phases.
	members.aol.com /mmmchess/newsv01n04.html (2876 words)

	Chess FM - live via internet!
		Japan has announced that former chess champion Bobby Fischer can only be deported to the US and not to Iceland, as he had demanded.
		LONDON - Retiring Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov is turning his talent for strategy away from the gameboard and toward Russian politics, challenging the "dictatorship" of President Vladimir Putin.
		LONDON, March 14: Retiring Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov said on Monday he was turning his talent for strategy away from the game board and toward Russian politics, to challenge the "dictatorship" of...
	archive.wn.com /2005/03/17/1400/chessfm (1521 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online
		The two artists, both serious chess players, invited a "who's who" of their avant-garde contemporaries to redesign the standard chess set or create works that otherwise explored the imagery and symbolism of chess.
		While some chose to create chess sets that explored formal problems of design and functionality, others created works that alluded, often in strikingly contemporary and personal ways, to the historical associations of chess as a game of war or as a metaphor for amorous conquest.
		For chess aficionados, one of the most historically important works on view, also included in the Levy show, is a wooden chess set made in 1924 by Bauhaus designer Josef Hartwig.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /TT-2005-10-18-09-42-01p1 (927 words)

	ABC of Chess Lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The player who has moved last, has the advantage and he is said to have the opposition.
		If you look at those positions which were discussed by me in our last lesson, you can come to the conclusion that the result depended on, who had the move or on who had the opposition.
		There are some positions, in which it hardly matters as to who has the opposition.
	www.chathurangam.com /learnchess/lesson13n.asp (602 words)

	Svetozar Gligoric vs Robert James Fischer (1959)
		Endgame puzzles, or "studies", are distinctly different from our normal tactical exercises, because in each case you will need to understand a method to win (or draw) as opposed to a single move which accomplishes the task immediately.
		Keeping the king in opposition until the pawn advances is of course fl's drawing course.
		In K+pawn vs. king ending, that side is sucessful (attacker wins, defender draws), whose king enters the field, which is same colored as this one which is occupied by enemy's king, and there is one other color field beetween the kings.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessgame?gid=1008390 (1159 words)

	Smart Chess Moves
		In Chess, knowledge of the moves and how to play under certain given conditions is equivalent to acquiring a vocabulary in a language, and the syntax may be said to be the study and analysis of the Openings.
		The Chess Opening consists of the first six or eight moves, when both sides endeavor to develop their forces into the sphere of action where they will exercise the greatest power against the opponent’s defenses.
		Whether you are a novice, intermediate, or advanced chess player, the books (which were nearly lost to the world) are meant for you.
	www.smartchessmoves.com (1145 words)

	Oppostion: A Means to an End
		As I see it, the only way for white to get the opposition back is to make a pawn move, but that would eliminate White's chances of getting his King in front of his pawn.
		The misconception you (and many other people!) seem to have is that owning the opposition allows you to get the result you're playing for (in this case, a draw with Black).
		In diagram two, the DIRECT opposition is all-important in that whoever possesses it will achieve their goal (White to move draws while Black to move loses since it allows the white King to advance to c5 or e5.).
	www.jeremysilman.com /chess_letters/040306_opposition.html (663 words)

	ICC Help: Quiz18
		Scientific study of computer chess, which includes the technological work, but goes far beyond that, is the most important scientific study that is going on in the world at present.
		Chess is a complicated game, but a finite mathematical problem.
		And when HAL a little later declares, not without a trace of pride in its synthetical voice that its creator and tutor is about to be checkmated, the message of the whole scene sinks in.
	www.chessclub.com /help/Quiz18 (1744 words)

	Russian Opposition Leader Says His Supporters Arrested En Route to G8 Protest - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Russian opposition leader and former chess champion Garry Kasparov said at least 20 of his activists had been arrested around Russia as they traveled to protest ahead of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg this weekend.
		Police are reported to have swooped on dozens of opposition activists demanding to know if they are involved in protests coinciding with the summit.
		The opposition, which plans protests both against globalism and the rule of Vladimir Putin for this Friday, says the police action goes way beyond normal precautions to root out terrorists.
	mosnews.com /news/2006/07/12/otherrussiacomplain.shtml (854 words)

	USATODAY.com - Some rally against Bobby Fischer's deportation to U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		TOKYO — Chess genius Bobby Fischer, now detained in Japan awaiting deportation to the United States, would be allowed to leave for Iceland instead if that country granted him citizenship, an opposition party leader said Wednesday.
		Fischer became world chess champion in a 1972 match in Iceland against the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky, and some of his Icelandic supporters have campaigned to help him out of gratitude for putting Iceland in the global spotlight.
		Her protest came after a member of Japan's leading opposition party, the Democrats, grilled government officials in parliament over the case.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-03-16-fischer-iceland_x.htm?csp=34 (519 words)

	The Daily Dirt Chess Blog
		The annual Chess Classic, which used to take place in Frankfurt, begins in Mainz, Germany this week.
		But the continuing story is one that even many strong chess countries continue to suffer, the top players skipping the national championship.
		NY Times chess guy Dylan Loeb McClain, himself a strong chessplayer, has a long article covering the World Open cheating hubbub amply covered in these pages in the comments almost in real time.
	www.chessninja.com /dailydirt (4320 words)

	The Times Winning Moves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The daily chess column in the The Times is the game's most widely read article in Britain.
		In these puzzles, the player whose move it is has a knockout blow available to beat the opposition.
		Use it to hone your tactical skills by trying to uncover the killer blow, or simply enjoy the sacrificial displays devised by the experts.
	www.thechessstore.com /product/EM3381PP (110 words)

	Russian Chess Legend Kasparov to Establish United Civil Front - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Former chess champ and the chairman of the Russian opposition organization Committee-2008: Free Choice, Garry Kasparov, has announced that he is going to set up a united civil front in Russia, Interfax news agency reports.
		A prominent sportsman in the past, Kasparov announced he was leaving chess for politics in March 2005 when he retired from competition chess.
		More than a year ago he became head of Committee 2008 and in April 2005 said he was going to found a political party of his own together with liberal MP Vladimir Ryzhkov.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/05/18/kasparovfront.shtml (653 words)

	Cumbernauld Chess Club - News Articles
		Cumbernauld Chess Club members were involved in the Lanarkshire Division 1 and the Dunbartonshire Division 2 on the evening of December 12.
		Cumbernauld chess club players were involved in the first match of their Glasgow chess league division two campaign.
		As the chess season reaches its final stages, it is time for some reflection on the performance of the club so far.
	homepages.tesco.net /~kelsor/news.htm (8913 words)

	Under-7 chess tourney \| oHERALDo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		PANJIM: (HSD) – Taligaon Chess School in association with Imersoft Technology Cybercafe is organising an all Goa U-7 Chess tournament on 3rd Floor, Kamat Chambers, Panjim on June 24 at 2.30 pm and June 25 at 10 am.
		Opposition leader of Goa Assembly, Manohar Parrikar and All Goa State Chess Association Secretary Suhas Asnodkar has agreed to remain present at inauguration function and All India Chess Federation vice president Sameer Salgaocar and North Goa District Senior Session Judge Ms Anuja Prabhudesai have agreed to remain present for prize distribution function.
		Besides, an exhibition of posters and research papers highlighting importance of chess for each one of us will also be held at the venue.
	oheraldo.in /node/15576 (221 words)

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