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Position of chess pieces at the beginning of a game
Chess: king
Chess: rook
Chess: bishop
Chess: queen
Chess: knight
Chess: pawn
Zsófia, Susan, and Judit Polgár
The Turk, a chess-playing pseudo-automaton
chess composition
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