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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.

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What is the story of Premchand 'The Chess Players'?

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"The Chess Players" ("Shatranj ke khiladi") is a short story by Munshi Premchand and details the obsession two members of the aritocracy playing the game of chess while neglecting responsibilities to society and family .

There's an eponymous 1977 film by Satyajit Ray which is well-regarded by those within the international film community .

How do I get my queen back in chess?

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You would have to pin the Queen between their King and your attacking piece, and your attacking piece would have to be defended by multiple other pieces, preferably those who can put a check on the king should your attacking piece be destroyed. If you were attacking on a horizontal or a vertical, you would want a couple of rooks, or a queen and a rook in the horizontal/ vertical you used, and the same thing for diagonals, except using a bishop replacing the rook.

Different kinds of chess chess position?

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There are simply an endless number of chess positions to answer this question. Besides, it would be of no help to a player to know various positions of pieces at any given time in any given game.

Can a pawn attack backwards?

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yes it may. A pawn can only move forward until taken or exchanged for another piece at the end row. It's defense is different than its offense, and it attacks diagonal to the square left ahead or right ahead and behind.

Who was the first chess grand master?

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William Stientz.(I might have misspelled his name)

What is a defeat called in chess?

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Depends on how you won.

If you checked your opponent's king and he cannot block the check, capture the checking piece, or move his king away, you win by checkmate.

If your opponent tips his king over and says "I resign" You win by resignation.

If your opponent runs out of time in his/her clock, you win by time.

If your opponent is 30+min. late, you win by "no-show".

Can a player in chess put themself in checkmate by move a piece that in front of king exposing his king to other players piece?

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Only if the piece won't be able to attack him then. Example: moving in front of a bishop is okay. Moving in front of a pawn is okay. Moving in front of a knight is okay. King, rook, or queen? No ma'am/sir.

What are Chess pawn promotion rules?

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The pawn can move 2 tiles forward on its first move. Then, it can only move 1 space each turn. If one of your opponent's players is 1 space diagonal from your pawn, it can capture it but moving 1 space diagonal and taking it. When a pawn reaches the other side of the board, it can change places with any player that has been captured. The promoted pawn can become any piece it chooses to be. It is not limited to other pieces that have already been captured. Thus it is possible for a player to have more than one Queens on the board. The pawn becomes another piece; it is not exchanged for a captured piece.

A pawn is the weakest piece on the chessboard, hence the name; nevertheless, they are very important. Pawns can only move one space straight forward, unless the specific pawn hasn't moved yet in the game, where they can move two. Pawns can only capture another piece diagonally (but not backwards and to the side.) When a pawn makes it all the way to the other side of the board, you get to "promote" it into your piece of choice, but not a king. Also, pawns are the only pieces that can to "En Passant, which is very hard to explain, but it is a special type of capture.

Name the three chess playing sister who dominated Indian chess in 1980s?

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The Polgar sisters; Judit, Susan, and Sofia. Judit and Susan are Grandmasters and Sofia is an International Master.

What is next to the king in chess?

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King on color

What is the answer to the Rice on a Chess Board question?

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This is based on the myth of a Chinese philosopher that did a great act of service for an emperor; he subsequently asked that his reward be as follows: * "Put one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard. Then put two on the next, and four on the one after that. For each square, put double the number of grains on the square before it." The emperor agreed without thinking this through; the reward bankrupted the kingdom/empire before getting halfway and the philosopher was executed. We can calculate the number of grains on any square by the formula R = 2(n-1), where n is the square in numerical order and R is the number of grains on the nth square. If we were to work out each individual value for R from n = 1 to n = 64, it would take a while BUT since this is a geometrical sequence, we can calculate the sum of values for R, from a given range of values for n, by use of a formula developed for the purpose. This is as follows: RT = Σ64n=1(2n-1)* RT = Σ-- (20 + 21 + 22 + ... + 264) RT = 1(1 - 264)(1 - 2) RT = 1 x 1 x (264 - 1)** RT = 264 - 1 RT = 1.84467 x 1019 grains of rice, or thereabouts. In other words, reaching the total would mean almost 20 billion billion grains of rice; such an amount does not, and cannot, exist on Earth. *These values should be directly above and below the sigma sign, but WA doesn't work that way. **Note that the minus sign on the 1 has been negated by moving it into the brackets and simplifying.

How many chess moves without capture for a stalemate when you have a king and the other player has two queens and a king?

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A "stalemate" does not depend on the number of moves. A stalemate occurs when the king no longer has a legal move or where one opponent has a king and a knight or bishop against a lone king. This is because a king and a single minor piece like the bishop or knight cannot checkmate the king. Since checkmate is impossible, the rules declare it a stalemate. On the other hand, a "draw" may be declared if after 50 moves there is no capture AND if no pawn has been moved during those 50 moves. Although a stalemate and a draw amount to the same thing in practicality, they do have different terminology.

Which chess piece should only be moved diagonally?

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The Bishop moves diagonally.

What does the quote Most gods throw dice but Fate plays chess and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two Queens all along mean?

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While most "Gods"- Luck etc- are radom, hence the comparison to dice, Fate plans carefully and is in control- like playing chess. Furthermore, if a chess player has two queens then they will be impossible to beat- so you can't escape fate

San's obituary mentions that he was a dedicated gamesman and a master of chess Why might this be significant?

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because when sam loves to play chess he wins so he tells people he is good at playing chess

Can you play chess with your left hand?

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Technically chess is a mental game played out on a board with ornamental pieces. You could play with no hands as long as someone else moves the pieces per your instructions.

Can king take bishop or queen?

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Both in terms of the game of chess and in terms of religion and a monarch, a bishop cannot become a queen.

What are the different theme of chess games for kids?

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Different themes for chess games are chess. Chess was invented in India a long time ago, and is still used by many, any usually by kids. That is the theme game for kids.

Why do people play chess?

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because people don't have anything to do so they play on Internet checkers

How many times can you do castling method in chess?

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once(1) don't even know that! i am learning from a national chess player who has won in indonesia.belive me and trust me one and all -dhinesh murugan (murulakh@yahoo.com)

Where does the queen start in a game of chess?

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The white queen starts on d1, the black queen starts opposite it on d8. Both queens start on a square the same colour as they are.

Who made the first piece of money in the US?

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This is a question that is nearly impossible to answer.

First, "money" in the forms of various trade goods were used in North America by the natives, well before European settlers arrived. There isn't much information on what was the "first" and even what kind of goods they used as money depended on the individual tribe.

If you mean what year did the US Federal Government start striking coins, that would be 1792 when trial pieces were struck in limited numbers.

However, things start to get a little cloudy when you go back before 1792. If you could look at what the colonists used as money back in, say, 1777, you'd find a wide variety of coins used. You'd find a lot of Spanish silver reales, some British copper half-pennies and farthings, you'd find some copper coins struck by the individual states such as Virginia or Massachusetts, you'd find some Continental Currency paper money still circulating and you'd also find plenty of privately made tokens in gold, silver and especially copper. All these things were accepted as money back then and, aside from the Spanish and British coins, had domestic production within the boundaries of the US. Unlike today where nearly every transaction is done in dollars and cents, in the early US you'd find a multitude of different systems and currencies, each with different rates of acceptance. You'd hear prices discussed in "bits" or fractions of the Spanish 8 Reale coin, or in Pounds, Shillings and Pence.

So, in the end it is really impossible to say who created the first piece of money in the US because there were so many things used as money back before the US federal government introduced their dollar and even as recently as the US civil war, Spanish silver coins were still widely accepted and legal tender.

Are there games like pawn tactics?

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There are many variations of the game of chess. You can play a type of team chess called bughouse, a one-on-one version of bughouse called crazy-house, there is blitz, which is speed chess. There is backwards chess, where you set up your pieces on the opposite side of the board, so that pawns are only one move away from promoting, there is sideways chess, which is the same thing, just the pieces are lined up vertically on the sides of the board, and there is suicide chess, where you must make a capture if there is one available, and the point of the game is to lose all your pieces, including your king.

Is chess the national game of Russia?

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No. It was originated from India.