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Chess

Two players, sixty-four squares, thirty-two pieces, perfect information, no chance. The deepest combinatorial structure ever absorbed into a popular pastime.

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Two players, sixty-four squares, thirty-two pieces, perfect information, no chance. The deepest combinatorial structure ever absorbed into a popular pastime. Key sections include: Chess.; Opening The royal game.; Chapter I Origins.; Chapter II Shatranj.; Chapter III The slow European centuries.; Chapter IV The mad queen, 1475.; Chapter V Philidor and the pawns.; Chapter VI Staunton's pieces.; Chapter VII The first champion, 1886.; Chapter VIII Lasker, 1894–1921..

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  1. 01Chess.
  2. 02Opening The royal game.
  3. 03Chapter I Origins.
  4. 04Chapter II Shatranj.
  5. 05Chapter III The slow European centuries.
  6. 06Chapter IV The mad queen, 1475.
  7. 07Chapter V Philidor and the pawns.
  8. 08Chapter VI Staunton's pieces.
  9. 09Chapter VII The first champion, 1886.
  10. 10Chapter VIII Lasker, 1894–1921.
  11. 11Chapter IX Capablanca's machine.
  12. 12Chapter X Alekhine.
  13. 13Chapter XI Botvinnik and the Soviet century.
  14. 14Chapter XII Fischer–Spassky.
  15. 15Chapter XIII Fischer afterward.
  16. 16Chapter XIV Karpov.
  17. 17Chapter XV Kasparov.
  18. 18Chapter XVI The K-K rivalry.
  19. 19Chapter XVII 1997, the machine.
  20. 20Chapter XVIII The interregnum.
  21. 21Chapter XIX Magnus.
  22. 22Chapter XX Ding, Gukesh, and the new generation.
  23. 23Chapter XXI Stockfish, Komodo, Leela.
  24. 24Chapter XXII AlphaZero, 2017.
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Opening theory and tablebases.
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Chess.com and Lichess.
  27. 27Chapter XXV 2020.
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Twenty-five works.
  29. 29Chapter XXVII Watch & read.
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII What chess is for.
  31. 31Chapter XXIX 2026.
  32. 32// end of deck
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