Chess player
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A chess player is someone who plays the game of chess
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Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
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- The Chess Players (painting), painting by Thomas Eakins
- The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari), film directed by Satyajit Ray
- Chess Player's ChronicleChess Player's ChronicleThe Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902.The earliest chess...
, 19th century British chess magazine
See also
- List of chess players