A chess prodigy is a young child who possesses an aptitude for the game of chess that far exceeds what might be expected at their age. Their prodigious...

Roman Savrovich Shogdzhiev is a Russian chess player and child chess prodigy. In November 2022, Shogdzhiev won the U8 section of the European Youth Chess...

notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...

ChessV (short for Chess Variants) is a free computer program designed to play many chess variants. ChessV is an open-source, universal chess variant program...

The rook (/rʊk/; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may capture...

The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess. The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing...

This is a list of Israeli chess title-holders (active players only), as of April 2016. Boris Alterman Boris Avrukh Tal Baron Sergey Erenburg Alexander...

named after the Roman god Janus because this god was usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. The usual set of chess pieces is extended...

Roman Tomaszewski (born 16 May 1960) is a Polish chess International Master (1984). In 1977 Roman Tomaszewski won the Polish Youth Chess Championship in...

Roman Dworzyński (born 8 June 1934) is a Polish chess player. He is a Polish Chess Championship medalist from 1955. Roman Dworzyński achieved his first...