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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess).
Chess is an abstract strategy game which involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square game board called a chessboard containing 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. White moves first, followed by Black; then moves alternate. The object of the game is to checkmate (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw.
The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, with millions of players worldwide. (Full article...)
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In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance. This is a special case in the rules of chess. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy pawn passed over, as if the enemy pawn had advanced only one square. The rule ensures that a pawn cannot use its two-square move to safely skip past an enemy pawn.
Capturing en passant is permitted only on the turn immediately after the two-square advance; it cannot be done on a later turn. The capturing move is sometimes notated by appending the abbreviation e.p.
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FIDE world ranking
Rank | Player | Rating |
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1 | Magnus Carlsen | 2831 |
2 | Fabiano Caruana | 2803 |
3 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2802 |
4 | Arjun Erigaisi | 2801 |
5 | Gukesh Dommaraju | 2777 |
6 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2768 |
7 | Alireza Firouzja | 2763 |
8 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2754 |
9 | Wei Yi | 2751 |
10 | Viswanathan Anand | 2750 |
11 | Levon Aronian | 2747 |
12 | Wesley So | 2747 |
13 | R Praggnanandhaa | 2741 |
14 | Leinier Domínguez Pérez | 2741 |
15 | Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2740 |
16 | Lê Quang Liêm | 2739 |
17 | Ding Liren | 2734 |
18 | Hans Niemann | 2734 |
19 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2733 |
20 | Vincent Keymer | 2733 |
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