Overview Of Chess

Overview Of Chess
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Origin Of Chess

The history of chess spans some 1500 years.
The earliest predecessors of the game originated in
India,before the 6th century AD. From India, the game
spread to Persia.
When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up
by the Muslim world and subsequently spread to
Southern Europe.
In Europe, chess evolved into roughly its current form in the
15th century
In the second half of the 19th century, modern chess
tournament play began, and the first world Chess
Championship was held in 1886.


Ancient Chess Sets



Original Chess Coins From 9th Century



Chess Coins & Concepts

Chess board contians 64 squares of 8 rows and 8
columns.
Horizontal rows are called as Ranks in chess.
Vertical columns are called as Files.
Chess pieces, or chessmen, are the pieces deployed
on a chessboard to play the game of chess.
The pieces vary in capabilities, giving them different
values in the game.


For A Standard Chess Game Each Player Starts
With

1
King

1
Queen

2
Rooks

2

The King

In chess, the king (♔, ♚) is
the most important piece. The
object of the game is to trap the
opponent's king so that its escape
is not possible (checkmate). If a
player's king is threatened with
capture, it is said to be in check,
and the player must remove the
threat of capture on the next
move. If this cannot be done, the
king is said to be in checkmate.
Although the king is the most
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weakest piece in the game until a
later phase, the endgame.


Queen
The queen (♕,♛) is the most powerful piece in
the game of chess, able to move any number of
squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
Each player starts the game with one queen,
placed in the middle of the first rank next to the
king. With the chessboard oriented correctly, the
white queen starts on a white square and the
black queen on a black square.



Rook
The rook participates with the king, in a
special move called castling. In
general, rooks are stronger than
bishops or knights (which are called
minor pieces) and are considered
greater in value than either of those
pieces by nearly two pawns but less
valuable than two minor pieces. Two
rooks are generally considered to be
worth slightly more than a queen.
Winning a rook for a bishop or knight is
referred to as winning the exchange.
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pieces or major pieces, as opposed to
bishops and knights, the minor pieces.


Bishop
The bishop has no restrictions in distance
for each move, but is limited to diagonal
movement. Bishops, like all other pieces
except the knight, cannot jump over other
pieces. A bishop captures by occupying the
square on which an enemy piece sits. The
bishops may be differentiated according to
which wing they begin on,the king's bishop
and queen's bishop. As a consequence of
its diagonal movement, each bishop always
remains on either the white or black
squares, and so it is also common to refer to
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light squared or dark squared

knight
The knight move is unusual among chess
pieces. When it moves, it can move two
squares horizontally and one square
vertically, or two squares vertically and one
square horizontally. The complete move
therefore looks like the letter 'L'. Unlike all
other standard chess pieces, the knight can
'jump over' all other pieces to its destination
square. It captures an enemy piece by
moving into its square. The knight's ability
to 'jump over' other pieces means it tends
to be at its most powerful in closed
positions, in contrast to that of a bishop.
The move is one of the longest-surviving
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unchanged since before the seventh
century.


pawn
The pawn (♙♟) is the most numerous and
weakest piece in the game of chess,
historically representing infantry, or more
particularly armed peasants or pikemen.
Each player begins the game with eight
pawns, one on each square of the rank
immediately in front of the other pieces.
Unlike the other pieces, pawns may not
move backwards. Normally a pawn moves
by advancing a single square, but the first
time a pawn is moved, it has the option of
advancing two squares. Pawns may not
use the initial two-square advance to jump
over an occupied square, or to capture.
Free PowerPoint BackgroundsAny piece directly in front of a pawn, friend
or foe, blocks its advance.


Game Clock
A game clock consists of two adjacent clocks and
buttons to stop one clock while starting the other,
such that the two component clocks never run
simultaneously. Game clocks are used in two-
player games where the players move in turn.
The purpose is to keep track of the total time
each player takes for his or her own moves, and
ensure that neither player overly delays the
game. Game clocks were first used extensively in
tournament chess, and are often called chess
clocks. The first time that game clocks were used
in a chess tournament was in the London 1883
tournament.


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