Month: January 2018

Interesting Facts About Board Games

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chessChennai, Nov 26 (IANS) Indian Grandmaster M.R. Lalith Babu drew his top board game with GM Oleksienko Mikhalio of Ukraine and moved in shared lead with 5.5 points after the sixth round of the Apollo Engineering College Commonwealth Chess Championships here Monday.

Good game Only complaint I have is that even the easiest level (other than practice) is really hard. Granted, I am a beginner at chess, however I’ve played the AI at level 1 about ten times and haven’t been able to win once. There’s a large gap in skill between practice and level 1.

There are many variations of civil war chess sets and the design of the pieces can be really astonishing. Hand painted pieces filled with details can really contribute to the overall feeling one gets while playing a game of chess. Civil war chess sets come in a variety of materials, including wood, metal, and … Read More

Chess Strategies For A Winning Game

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In the real world of chessboxing, players begin with chess, alternating between six rounds of chess and five bouts of boxing in a match that goes all the way to the finish. A round of chess is four minutes long; each player is allotted two minutes. There is an interval of a minute before the players proceed to the ring. A bout of boxing lasts three minutes, with another minute reserved for the players to change.

This current interpretation an 11×11 board with a central king surrounded by twelve princes or defenders. Each side of the board starts with six blue attackers, giving 24 in total. The central square is important as it can only be occupied by the king, though other pieces can cross it, as long as it’s unoccupied. Play proceeds by alternate … Read More

Interesting Facts About Board Games

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chessNearly100 years of playing chess may have something to do with Zoltan Sarosy’s ability to remember events that happened before the First World War.

Thank you for the feedback. We assure you that it is not our intention to get players to accidentally click on ads. We tweak ad timings to try and avoid this: it is a work in progress. Getting together for a game of chess, backgammon, or just to have a conversation,” the rakers report reads. The birthday cake will be black forest, his favourite, decorated like — what else? — a chess board.

With algebraic notation, each different chess piece is either a letter or symbol and will have a number with it. Notation are not long written out sentences of what moves a player made but more of a shorthand description of what moves occurred during game play. Each move will have at least one … Read More

Chess Strategies For A Winning Game

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chessNew York, Feb 5 (IANS) The Facebook app that enables your conversations with your friends on the popular social network has now made it simple to play chess from a computer or a smartphone.

Chess politics, which is labyrinthine and complex in nature, deserves to be discussed in much detail but that definitely wasn’t the appropriate time and place. One theory was however, laid to rest. Both players said that they had neither met nor spoken with Kasparov, which means that he did not help Carlsen with his preparation. GK also reiterated that he wasn’t helping Magnus.

Pawns kept the idea of the infantry and grew to represent the peasants from a court. They were considered expendable pieces, as the entire game was built around protecting the court. During the phase of Medieval Chess, however, these pieces were given a little more substance, and each particular Pawn was generally given … Read More

Chess Notes By Edward Winter

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chessLearning chess online has become increasingly popular with online games that help you learn while you play. Online chess games are server based games. In an online chess game, chess server records the players’ moves against each other via internet. There are several online chess portals, which enables people to register themselves to learn and play online chess by paying some small amount of money or which can based on their own conditions. Registered players can use all the services of the portal.

While nobody likes to lose a key piece, there are times, however when it makes sense to sacrifice one of your pieces. If an opponent’s piece is taking up a spot that you need open, putting one of your pieces in a position to lure his piece out to capture you is one way to move your game forward. Since you will be losing a piece, be … Read More