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Codenames: Duet is a cooperative version of the game where two players try to find all their agents out of codename cards. Codenames: Duet was released in October 2017 as a two-player cooperative version of the original game. The game packaging includes 200 new word cards, which can also be used for the original game (provided that the language ...
Fritz and Chesster. Fritz and Chesster ( German: Fritz und Fertig) is a series of educational programs about chess for children. In each of the four PC games, Fritz White and his cousin Bianca learn chess with the help of the anthropomorphic rat Chesster. In the first three games, they learn various elements of chess before competing against ...
Endgame chess (or the Pawns Game, with unknown origins) [8x8]: Players start the game with only pawns and a king. Normal check, checkmate, en passant, and pawn promotion rules apply. [6] Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) [6x6]: Played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program.
László Polgár (born 11 May 1946) is a Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist. He is the father of the famous Polgár sisters: Zsuzsa, Zsófia, and Judit, whom he raised to be chess prodigies, with Judit and Zsuzsa becoming the best and second-best female chess players in the world, respectively.
A chess engine generates moves, but is accessed via a command-line interface with no graphics. A dedicated chess computer has been purpose built solely to play chess. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows one to import and load an engine, and play against it. A chess database allows one to import, edit, and analyze a large archive of past games.
Charles Hertan (born March 11, 1960) is an American FIDE Chess Master and author of six chess books, including Forcing Chess Moves (New in Chess, 2008), winner of the 2008 Chess Café Book of the Year award. His two-part children's chess tactics manual, Power Chess for Kids, Volumes 1&2, won similar accolades from chess journalists and educators.
1956 – Los Alamos chess is the first program to play a chess-like game, developed by Paul Stein and Mark Wells for the MANIAC I computer. 1956 – John McCarthy invents the alpha–beta search algorithm. 1957 – The first programs that can play a full game of chess are developed, one by Alex Bernstein [56] and one by Russian programmers ...
The Soga Chess Club for children doesn't have enough tables and chairs. In a corner of a refugee camp in conflict-wracked eastern Congo, about a dozen chess games are going, each one with its own ...