Chess is one of the famous games in the world and it is a mental game played on board divided into 64 squares ;with 8 squares are located longitudinal and 8 squares are located cross-section.
The squares are different in colors, usually black and white or brown and white.
This game requires two players who each have 16 pieces divided into a minister, a king, a two-legged and back-row player plus 8 soldiers in the front row of each player.
Chess is one of the most popular games that requires great mental ability and concentration. The player needs to develop strategies and plans to help to protect his pieces and win the game. The win in this game depends on reaching the King’s piece, so he can not escape again.
The movement of pieces in chess :
Each piece in a chess game has a certain movement allowed, and these movements are :
The king : only one square in any direction (vertical, horizontal and diagonal) ;
The minister : moves in any number of squares and in any direction, as long as it does not object to another piece, and if intercepted by a piece the opponent can kill, and if intercepted pieces of the same player of the same color can not pass ;
The horse : 3 squares followed by a box in the horizontal or vertical form LL, the only piece in the game that can move and jump over the pieces ;
The castle : any number of squares in the horizontal or vertical direction ;
The solider : one box is only forward and can not move backward or horizontally.
History of the chess :
The origin of the chess game is still disputed by the countries that claim to have its origin, but historians speculate that it originated in the state of India in the sixth century AD by a man named Chatterton. In China, it raised in the second century AD and has the same form of the chess.
Chess time :
The chess time is controlled by a timer to calculate the time that each player takes in each move. When the movement is completed, the player clicks on that counter and thus calculates the time it took in the game.
There are several categories of games, including flash games where each player has a minute to 15 minutes, while in fast play each has 15 to 30 minutes, and in traditional play time extends to 3 hours or more.
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This post was translated by me from Arabic to English.
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