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Last fortnight, we discussed ‘Pattern Recognition in Chess’, aided by basic checkmate patterns like the Back Rank Checkmate with the rook and the Queen. Let us continue where we left off in our ...

Chess is a two-player board game where each player controls 16 pieces. The goal of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, which means putting the king in a position where it is in immediate ...

The recent protests over racism have rekindled a longstanding discussion about whether chess promotes white privilege with its rule that the first move always goes to the player with the white pieces.

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