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Chess
Questions about the game of Chess. Electronic versions of chess may be asked about here, as a second category, but would be more appropriately placed in a Video Games category.
2,793 Questions
What was the first game played by English colonist?
I know that Rounders was a game that was played in England before colonists came to America so I think this might be your answer. Rounders is kind of like baseball.
Who is chess champion in 2012?
Viswanathan Anand has been the World Champion since 2007, winning the title in an 8 player double round robin tournament.
Since then he has defended his title in match conditions three times, defeating former Champions Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov 3-1 with 7 draws and 3-2 with 7 draws respectively. His most recent defence came in May 2012 against Boris Gelfand. Tied 1-1 with 10 draws, the match was decided by tie break games which Anand won 1-0 with 3 draws.
Anand is scheduled to defend his title again in Autumn 2013, against the winner of a candidates tournament contested by Boris Gelfand, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Teimour Radjabov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexander Grischuk and Peter Svidler.
Chess Grandmaster and the year?
Magnus Carlsen is the current World Chess Champion for 2013 . For a list of world Chess Champoins you'll need to refer to the related link below .
How many times has the chess fork been used?
The chess fork is usually used at least once in every chess game. There is not a known number.
What a chess piece is called-?
Chess pieces as a whole are generally referred to as "pieces" or by there specific type King, Queen, Knight, Rook, Bishop, or Pawn.
What is the size of a box on a chess board if the chess board is 1 foot by 1 foot?
Each square is 1.5 in by 1.5 in
How can a friend download chess for free online?
Chess is the one and only legit website that I recommend for you. They offer chess gameplay online with computers, iPhones and Android phones. When you have downloaded said application, you're able to create tournaments for your friends if you're more than two people.
How many pawns does each player have in chess?
there are 32 chess pieces on a board and 16 of them are pawns
What happens in chess when the rook reaches the eigth level?
Nothing special happens, the rook is just on the last rank(it is the first rank if you are playing as black). Pawns are the only piece that can promote.
im not quite sure what you mean, but a knight can land on any particular square as many times as it wants (in its turn, of course) there are no limits to how many times a peice can land on a square, but some peices cant reach certain squares, i don't think. hope this helped :D
In the game of chess how do you make the rook and king castle with the mouse?
Pick up the king and drop it on the correct square, the computer software should then move the rook accordingly to the correct square. If you move the rook first, the compute won't realise you want to castle. As the king moves 2 squares, rather than it's usual one square, the software will recognise it's a castling movement.
Who was the first Indian grandmaster?
by Ismail Sloan
One of the most interesting and important personalities in chess history was Mir Sultan Khan. He was brought from India to England in 1929 by his master, a maharaja, was kept there for four years, and then was taken back to India in 1933 by his master, never to be seen by the world of chess again. During his short stay in England, Sultan Khan won the British Chess Championship, defeated former World Champion Capablanca and played first board for England during the World Chess Olympiads at Prague 1931 and at Folkestone 1933. At the same time, another servant brought by the same maharaja, a Miss Fatima, won the British Woman's Chess Championship. Sultan Khan never finished lower than fourth in any chess tournament in which he ever played. Although he always lost to William Winter (who usually finished last, in spite of defeating Sultan Khan) there is no doubt that Sultan Khan was one of the strongest chess players in the world at that time. According to the modern rating system, Sultan Khan was about 2550 in strength and was easily a grandmaster. This also means that Sultan Khan was the first ever Asian grandmaster of chess.
Sultan Khan
There is some dispute as to whether Sultan Khan was a slave or was merely a servant. Reuben Fine related that when he was a guest for dinner at the maharaja's home in England, Sultan Khan was a waiter who brought the dishes to the table. It is often said that Sultan Khan was a beginner at chess and that he learned the rules only shortly before being brought from India, but that he was a master at the Indian version of chess. However, this story does not mean much, because the Indian version of chess is almost exactly the same as Western chess, the main difference being that in Indian chess, a pawn can only move one square on the first move, not two, and, when reaching the "queening" square, the pawn becomes the piece of the file on which it promotes. In other words, if the white pawn reaches c8 or f8, it becomes a bishop. In the 1950s, there was an article in British Chess Magazine which said that Sultan Khan had been found to be an opera singer in Durban, South Africa. However, this probably was merely somebody who looked like him. According to the book by R. N. Coles, Sultan Khan lived out his life on his family plot in Pakistan, in the Sargodha district of Punjab province, surrounded by his children and great grand children, etc. and died in 1966. Coles relates that in the early 1960s, someone (I forget the name) located Sultan Khan at his home near Lahore, Pakistan and visited him there. He found Sultan Khan sitting under a tree smoking a hookah. The visitor related that Sultan Khan offered to play him a game of blindfold chess, but that the visitor "wisely declined". I would like to find out the exact location of that plot of land and of the tree. I used to visit Pakistan frequently and the next time I go there I would like to go to that exact spot. Note that while it is always said that Sultan Khan came from India, he actually came from that part of India which is now Pakistan. A friend from Pakistan informs me that anyone who smokes a hookah does not live very long. It usually contains a pungent version of tobacco, or so I am told.
Playing and learning how to play chess may be hard. I have chess lesons once a week and I observe how other people play and just follow. At the first 4-5 weeks and more I was terrible, everyone beat me in less then 10 turns. And i have been learning for about 4 months. And I am much better then I started, without learing the strategies. So learing chess is hard.
Can pawns get people out in chess if going straight?
Pawns can only capture pieces forward-diagonally on either side. If it bumps head on against another pawn, the two are stuck until another piece removes one or the opportunity to capture to the diagonals presents itself.
