chess

Summary

chess is a board game^[1]. chess ranks in the top 0.16% of board_game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,406 views/month, #1 of 611).^[2]

Key Facts

• chess's instance of is recorded as board game^[3].
• chess's instance of is recorded as type of sport^[4].
• chess's instance of is recorded as two-player game^[5].
• chess's instance of is recorded as game-based sport^[6].
• chess's instance of is recorded as hobby^[7].
• chess's instance of is recorded as abstract strategy game^[8].
• chess's instance of is recorded as table sports^[9].
• chess's genre is mind game^[10].
• chess's genre is abstract strategy game^[11].
• shah is named after chess^[12].
• chess is a type of sequential game^[13].
• chess is a type of mind sport^[14].
• chess is a type of individual sport^[15].
• chess's Commons category is recorded as Chess^[16].
• chess's country of origin is recorded as Gupta Empire^[17].
• 601 marks the founding of chess^[18].
• chess's significant event is recorded as Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6^[19].
• chess's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chess^[20].
• chess's Commons gallery is recorded as Chess^[21].
• shatranj inspired chess^[22].
• chess's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Chess^[23].
• chess's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=chess^[24].
• chess's earliest date is recorded as 1475^[25].
• chess's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[26].
• chess's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for chess include Chessmaster^[28], a video game series^[29] and Chess City^[30], a sports venue^[31], in Russia^[32], founded in 1997^[33].

Why It Matters

chess ranks in the top 0.16% of board_game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,406 views/month, #1 of 611).^[2] chess has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] chess is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for chess include Chessmaster^[28], a video game series^[29] and Chess City^[30], a sports venue^[31], in Russia^[32], founded in 1997^[33].