CHESS

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Chess as a sport:

The International Olympic committee had recognized chess as a sport. Some national sporting bodies such as the Spanish consejo superior de deportes also recognize chess as a sport .Chess was included in the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games.

Since 1948, the World Championship has been regulated by FIDE, the game's international governing body. FIDE award titles to skilled players, the highest of which is grandmaster.

QUESTION AIR :

Before every sport we do exercise to make our body more flexible, chess is also a sport but what is the point of doing physical exercise before studying it. So we are supposed to do mental exercise before practicing chess. So,

Q) A farmer has 10 seeds of a plant with him, he is planning to plant it, in such a way that there are 5 rows and in each row there must be 4 plants.

 Ans) draw a big star and in each connecting points Plant.

Chess :

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a chickened game board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

History:

The history of chess goes back almost 1500 years. The game originated in northern India in the 6th century AD and spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently, through the Moorish conquest of Spain, spread to Southern Europe.

 

Movements of pieces:

The king moves one square in any direction

The rook moves in horizontal and vertical directions

The bishop moves in diagonal way

The knight takes its movement in ‘l’ shape

The queen combines the power of rook and bishop; it moves both in diagonal ,horizontal and vertical direction

The pawn can move forward to the unoccupied square immediately in front of it on the same file ,or on its first move it can advance two squares along the same file ,provided both squares are unoccupied, the pawn can capture pieces on a square diagonally in front of it

2 special movements

Castling

Once in every game, each king is allowed to make a special move, known as castling. Castling consists of moving the king two squares along the first rank toward a rook (which is on the player's first rank) and then placing the rook on the last square that the king has just crossed. Castling is permissible under the following conditions.

i) Neither the king nor the rook has previously moved during the game.

ii) There cannot be any pieces between the king and the rook.

iii) The king cannot be in check, nor can the king pass through squares that are under attack by enemy pieces, or move to a square where it would result in a check.

En passant

When a pawn advances two squares from its starting position and there is an opponent's pawn on an adjacent file next to its destination square, then the opponent's pawn can capture it en passant (in passing), and move to the square the pawn passed over. This can only be done on the very next move, otherwise the right to do so is forfeit. For example, if the black pawn has just advanced two squares from g7 (initial starting position) to g5, then the white pawn on f5 may take it via en passant on g6 (but only on White's next move).

Four move mate: