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chess
strategy board game
Wikipedia ↗
Images on Commons ↗
Wikidata (Q718) ↗
Details
Instance of
board game
,
type of sport
,
two-player game
,
game-based sport
,
hobby
,
abstract strategy game
,
table sports
Subclass of
sequential game
,
mind sport
,
individual sport
Inception
7th century
Genre
mind game
,
abstract strategy game
country of origin
Gupta Empire
described by source
Otto's encyclopedia
,
Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary
,
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
,
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
,
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
,
New International Encyclopedia
,
Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary
different from
chess video game
earliest date
1475s
hashtag
chess
history of topic
history of chess
inspired by
shatranj
maximum number of players
2
, 3
, 4
minimum number of players
2
named after
shah
OpenStreetMap tag
sport=chess
permanent duplicated item
Chess
practiced by
chess player
,
chess coach
,
chess arbiter
regulated by
FIDE
significant event
Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6
social media followers
696206
, 459838
topic has template
Template:Chess
,
Template:Chess grandmasters
topic's main category
Category:Chess
topic's main Wikimedia portal
Portal:Chess
uses
chessboard
,
chess piece
,
chess clock
Wikimedia outline
outline of chess
Connected on Wikidata
Notable work of
Vugar Hashimov
Subject of
The Royal Game
The Game of Chess
Intermezzo
La torre herida por el rayo
The Game and Playe of the Chesse
Comparatio mundi ad ludum schakarum
The Queen's Gambit
Geri's Game
International chess day
WikiProject Chess
Dangerous Moves
The Chess Players
Nothing in the MetaHistoryBook collection references this item yet.
Authority files
Library of Congress ↗
GND ↗
BnF ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica ↗
Treccani ↗
Depicted in
The Chess Players
Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess
Night Train to Lisbon
A Game of Chess
Echecs amoureux
Portrait of William Earle Welby, of Denton, Lincolnshire and his first wife, Penelope, playing chess, before a draped curtain
The Chess Players
The Chess Game
Mars and Venus at the chess
The Chess players
Etude of the life of the Russian Tsars (Chess playing)
Still-life with Checker
Basis for
cheskers
Infinite chess
shabel
hostage chess
GamePigeon
Inspired
Courier chess