Chess

There are two basic requirements for the title. First, you must obtain a rating of at least 2500 in the FIDE. Second, 3 grand master norms must be obtained. This means participating in a 9 round minimum tournament competing with other grand masters and participants from 3 separate countries. In that tournament, you must have a favorable result, aka, more wins than losses.

Endgame The final move in chess has no name per se. Many times a game ends with a checkmate, so "checkmate" can be considered in most but not all cases as the final move. However, some games end when a player loses by running out of time. Some games end in a stalemate or a draw. A draw can be by rule or by agreement. In in any of those situations, the last move is not a checkmate, therefore you cannot say the last move is called a checkmate. As far as "endgame" goes, that term refers to the last of the three stages of a chess game. The first two are the opening and middle game. The endgame cannot be defined with any specific description. However, many times a game may be said to be in the "endgame" stage after the queens have been taken off the board. Even this is not always the case. If the queens have been traded off early in the game with most other pieces still on the board, the game is still in the middle game stage.

This power of moving two spaces on the Pawn's first move was done , to make the game more interesting and to enable 'en passant' capture(s) , in the 15th Century .

The Queen can replicate any other chess piece's move other than that of the Knight which must be accomplished in two moves ~ see related link to additional information regarding the Queen's movements .

Some famous recent chess players are Anand, Kramnik, Magnus Carlsen, Alexei Shirov, and Garry Kasparov.

Older players would be

Emanuel Lasker, longest reigning world champion, 27 years

Alexander Alekhine, world champion 17 years

Jose Capablanca, who took the title from Lasker

Paul Morphy, an American, in 1858 he was generally acknowledged as world champion before there was an official title,

Howard Staunton, played in the 1850s and now the official style of pieces is named after him

Adolph Anderssen, winner of the game that has been called the "Immortal Game", widely considered the best game ever played

Bobby Fischer, the first American player to hold the official title

Some famous recent chess players are Anand, Kramnik, Magnus Carlsen, Alexei Shirov, and Garry Kasparov.

Older players would be

Emanuel Lasker, longest reigning world champion, 27 years

Alexander Alekhine, world champion 17 years

Jose Capablanca, who took the title from Lasker

Paul Morphy, an American, in 1858 he was generally acknowledged as world champion before there was an official title,

Howard Staunton, played in the 1850s and now the official style of pieces is named after him

Adolph Anderssen, winner of the game that has been called the "Immortal Game", widely considered the best game ever played

Bobby Fischer, the first American player to hold the official title

In general it is an indoor game although you can get larger outdoor versions for the garden. However, it is a game that was meant to be played indoors when it was first created.

If you want something dirt cheap, you can probably buy a used on Amazon or eBay for pennies (plus shipping).

To circumvent the shipping cost, tried shady thrift shops. Some hobby stores may have used sets cheap.

No, surprisingly. Chess is an Indian game.

Nothing happens, when the king reaches the other end of the board he reaches the other end of the board, that's it.

Yes sir... It's on the manual... please read it.

Yes, the entire object of the game is to see which side can defeat the other's king first. The king is usually the most difficult to kill, because players usually try to guard it closely and keep it from harm in order to win.

Nothing, if the king was knocked over inadvertently. The laying down of a player's king has come to symbolize that player conceding victory to the other player. It is symbolic only and has no meaning unless intended as a symbolic gesture of concession.

There are many rules in chess.

I'll start with the movement of pieces:

Pawn-a pawn on its first move can move one or two spaces, after its first move it can only move one. To attack a piece it can move diagonally one space. The pawn can not attack a piece that is straight ahead of it.

Knight-The knight is the only piece that can go over the pieces of its same color. This makes the knight very usable in the beginning of the game. The knight moves in an L shape moving two spaces one way and then one space horizontally

Bishop-The bishop simply moves diagonally as much as possible until blocked by another piece

Rook-The rook can move horizontally or vertically any amount of spaces it wants until blocked by another piece.

King-The king can move in any direction one space as long as it is not blocked by a piece of the same color or is threatened by an opponent's piece (I'll talk more about this later)

Queen-The queen can move any direction as many spaces as possible

The key to the game is to checkmate the opposing side's king which is to get the king to not be able to move and also be threatened at the same time. Threatening a king is when an opposing piece is getting ready to attack the king forcing the king to move, another piece to attack the threatening piece, or block the piece. For example, if an opposing rook is vertically from a king with no pieces blocking the two, the king is threatened and the player threatening the king must say "check".

Here are a few complicated rules of chess:

Castling: Castling is a technique used in chess to usually add extra defense and also to get the rook out quicker. This is where the king move two spaces towards the rook and the rook goes to the other side of the king. This is only possible however when the all the pieces between the rook and the king have moved, the king is not in check, if both the king and the rook have not moved (this does not mean you move your king or rook and then move them right back to where they were), and if there are no spaces in between the rook and the king that are being threatened. There is more information about this in the related link below.

En passant: This one is hard to explain without a picture, so check the related link below to know how this move works.

Ways to win/lose:

Checkmate: The most common way to win/lose is by checkmate which I explained above.

Resignation: Resignation is when a player decides to quit. This is often shown by tipping your own king over.

Ways to draw:

Stalemate: Stalemate is when a person has no legal moves. If the king and every piece left on the board can not move than the game is a draw.

Offering and agreeing to a draw: Someone may offer to draw. If the opponent agrees to the draw, the game is simply a draw.

The 50-move rule: When one person has only a king, after 50 moves from that moment a person may accept the draw. Now moves refers to both players moving a piece (this does not mean every time a piece moves).

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Chess is commonly believed to have originated in India during the Gupta empire, where its early form in the 6th century was known as caturaṅga. Around 1200, rules started to be modified in southern Europe, and around 1475, several major changes made the game essentially as it is known today

To avoid a loss, make sure it is impossible to let the opponent successfully skewer your king and queen. To avoid a draw, don't let the rook pin your queen to your king. Run your queen around the board, and try to fork or pin his rook and king.

No. You may not move INTO check. If that is the only move available, it would then depend whether or not you are already in check.

If you are in check and cannot move to a square where you are not in check, it is checkmate, the game is over, and you have lost.

If you are not in check, but cannot move without going into check, and you have

no other piece or pawn that can move, then it is stalemate, and the game is a draw.

If by moving up to a square, you mean an adjacent square, yes, as long as the square is not threatened by any opposing piece. This is the only way a King can attack another piece.

A King cannot enter any square that is attacked by an opposing piece, i.e. place himself in check. He also cannot castle across an attacked square (king's bishop 1-f1, or queen 1-d1), but it does not matter if the rook or queen's knight squares are attacked, because he does not cross or land on those squares. He cannot castle out of check.

No. The only way possible is to agree with the other player before the game as to Special and Unique rules. Ex) special moves for pieces and a different setup at the beginning of the game.

It's called a castle.

hope this helps!

There will probably other theories about the origin of the name "rook" for this chess piece; however her is the one I believe is best. IN the origins of the game itself, the game was called Chaturanga and it was not exactly the same as modern chess. The piece we call a rook was considered to be a chariot rather than a castle, probably because of the speed with which it moves. The Sanskrit word for chariot was "ratha". In Arabic it is still referred to as a chariot with the name "rukhkh." When the game spread to Europe, the word "rukhkh" sounded like the Italian word "rocco", which meant "tower." Since the two words sounded alike, the Italian word was used but the meaning changed from chariot to tower. The piece is still thought of as a tower in European translations. Various European countries use their language's word for "tower" rather than their words for "chariot". In Middle English the concept of tower eventually turned into castle since most castles had towers.

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By pinning the king along the edge of the board. You want your king on the same rank or file as the king with one space in between. Then all you have to do is get your queen in between the kings. Checkmate.