Capitalization Conventions
- The names of pieces (king, queen, rook, etc.) are not capitalized (except when the first word of a sentence).
- The words "white" and "black" are capitalized only when they are used as substitutes for player names, e.g. "... captured White's rook ... " and "the black queen...".
- Following our sources, chess opening names are capitalized as proper nouns, e.g., "King's Gambit", "Nimzo-Indian Defence", and "Dragon Variation".
- In quotations, the capitalization used in the source is followed, even if different from the above conventions.
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