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White to move. Where is the original White queen's rook?
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How fast can checkmate occur by just moving the king?
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What are pros and cons around banning castling?
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Chess960 or Chess959?
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Three part chess problem
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How can someone find their Morphy number?
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Beautiful retrograde analysis problem by Alexsey A. Troitsky
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Arrange 5 non-attacking knights on a 5x5 toroidal board
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A different kind of weighing problem
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What is Indian Castling exactly?
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Is the number of legal chess positions odd or even?
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When (if ever) was it a rule that pawn promotion was optional?
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Has anyone attempted to characterize chess mathematically?
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I was playing a tournament and some kids were talking about the game in a foreign language
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Why do players in the past play much longer tournaments than today's top players?
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A chess question of W.T. Tutte
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What is the maximum number of passed pawns in a position?
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A Special Parking Lot
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Can a king be checked with another king when checking square is protected by the side which gives the check?
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Square Free Position
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50-move rule: FIDE wording seems weird
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Is this selfmate solvable or fixable?
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Problem: reconstruct the game
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Official rules for castling in Chess960? (Is there a loophole?)
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Is a Finite State Machine a good way to model chess?
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How likely is it that a non-orthodox promotion is optimal?
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Is the position in this trick question reachable?
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Is Beth Harmon behaviour in her game vs Georgi Girev acceptable (then and now)?
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Is it possible to have a double self-smothered stalemate?
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What ambiguities remain in the laws of chess?
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Mutual Stalemate
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Fastest possible checkmate by en passant
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How many different ways are there to checkmate in the early game?
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E.Umnov's chess problem, 1944. Checkmate in two moves
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Arrange 5 non-attacking knights on a 5x5 toroidal board
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FIDE threefold repetition and possible moves
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Maximum number of pieces on board in dead position
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How to play for a draw
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Checkless Chess
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Is a queen vs rook endgame always winning?
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Could a chess engine do retro analysis?
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