Chess
Chess is a board game played between two players. It is sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi and shogi. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from chaturanga, a similar but much older game of Indian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide.
Chess pieces are divided into two different colored sets. While the sets may not be literally white and black (e.g. the light set may be a yellowish or off-white color, the dark set may be brown or red), they are always referred to as "white" and "black". The players of the sets are referred to as White and Black, respectively. Each set consists of 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. Chess sets come in a wide variety of styles; for competition, the Staunton pattern is preferred. The game is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks) and eight columns (called files). By convention, the 64 squares alternate in color and are referred to as light and dark squares; common colors for chessboards are white and brown,
- The rules of chess are published by FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs),
- chess's international governing body, in its Handbook.[1] Rules published by national governing bodies There is no offside.
- unaffiliated chess organizations, commercial publishers, etc.,
- may differ in some details. FIDE's rules were most recently revised in 2018
SOME FACTS
01
The number of possibilities of a Knight's tour is over 122 million.
02
During World War II, some of the top Chess players were also code breakers.
03
The word "Checkmate" in Chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means"the King is dead."
04
The longest chess game theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.
05
A computer called DeepThought became the first computer to beat an international grandmaster
06
The folding chessboard was invented by a priest who was forbidden to play chess. The priest found a way around it by making a folding chessboard.
SATATISTICS
| Team | Tournament | Goals | Shots PG | Discipline | Possession% | Pass% | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Carlsen, Magnus | Premier league | 99 | 18.8 | 42 1 | 68.2 | 89.7 | 7.12 |
| 2. Ding, Liren | premier league | 94 | 19.2 | 50 1 | 63.1 | 84.9 | 7.05 |
| 3. Firouzja, Alireza | Bundesliga | 97 | 19.8 | 36 2 | 64.8 | 86.0 | 6.98 |
| 4. Caruana, Fabiano | primier league | 76 | 15.6 | 63 1 | 62.2 | 87.1 | 6.92 |
| 5. Aronian, Levon | Lalija | 80 | 17.3 | 76 0 | 60.1 | 89.0 | 6.90 |
Best players
Paul Morphy
Paul Morphy was the embodiment of romantic attacking chess, the strongest player of the 1850s and the best player of the entire 19th century. There was no official world championship title during his era, but he was light years ahead of his competition and is recognized as an unofficial world champion. Morphy won the 1857 American Chess Congress and then traveled to Europe in 1858, winning every match he played versus the world's leading players.
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Magnus Carlsen
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Гарри Кимович Каспаров, Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf], born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, Гарик Кимович Вайнштейн; 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. His peak rating of 2851,[1] achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. From 1984 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for a record 255 months overall for his career, which outstrips all other previous and current chess ranking records. Kasparov also holds records for the most consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11).
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Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer never had the good fortune of knowing the man listed as his father on his birth certificate. It was his mother who played the dual role. She was often short of money but she always made an honest effort to not let her son know about all that. Among the decisions she took, the best was to move to Brooklyn in New York. In those pre-internet days, New York was the undisputed chess capital in the country. When Bobby was six, his elder sister Joan brought him home a chess board.
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Fabiano Caruana
The 25-year-old from Brooklyn beat Russia's Alexander Grischuk in the 14th game to take his tally to nine points, one ahead of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan’s and Sergey Karjakin, also of Russia. "I am absolutely thrilled," said world number three Caruana. "Coming into today, I wasn’t sure what would happen but things couldn’t have gone better. A few days ago, I thought the tournament was already out of my hands, but somehow things just came together perfectly at the end. I really couldn’t be happier." Caruana, 25, led the eight-man field from the start but had to withstand a fight-back from Karjakin, who beat the American in 48 moves on Saturday to temporarily send him top of the leaderboard with two rounds remaining.
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Hikaru Nakamura
Levon Aronian was the only player who could join Hikaru on tie-breaks but he lost the game against Grigoriy Oparin. Only after the end of the game between Dominguez and Keymer, it become clear that Hikaru and Rapport have secured their spots in the Candidates. By eliminating Leinier Dominguez, Vincent Keymer killed all theoretical chances for the other players to catch Hikaru and Richard in the Grand Prix. The local hero proceeds to the tie-break in Pool B and will be playing against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who quickly drew with Daniil Dubov. Both players have the same number of points thus the winner of the Pool will be determined tomorrow.
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