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For some applications of combinatorial game theory to actual chess endgames, see the article by Elkies at http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9905198. For an article I wrote with Elkies on the mathematical aspects of the knight in chess (but with little significance to the actual game of chess), see http://math.mit.edu/~rstan/papers/knight.pdf.