Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Beginning of Chess


Beginning of chess

We can arrange event of beginning of chess as below consequently :-
about 1200 shatranj's rule started to be changed in southern Europe.
In 1475 , main rule was changed in Italy and Spain. Pawn can move in two squares .As a result this game is known as chess.
End of the 10th century Vizier piece was replaced by Queen piece. Vizier is persian languange that mean the high-ranking political minister.
Before the 15th century,Queen had become the most powerful piece in game. New rule spread throughout western Europe. And started to write theory of chess game. The oldest chess book can be survived until now as Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez ( Repetition of Love and the Art of Playing Chess) by Luis Ramirez de Lucena , Spanish churchman.
In the 18th century , center of European chess moved to France There are two most important French master , Francois-Andre and Louis-Charles , In the Future we will talk about them. Strangely, That time coffee houses were center of chess life.
In the early 19th century , Chess game is absolutely different from origin , chaturanj. Chess game by this new rule was known as western chess or international chess. Many chess clubs were established. Chess match between cities were held.
chess is one of Toys & Games. like other game , puzzle, legos sets. It improve your IQ and give you a pleasure.

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Chess is a long history gameboard. It has developing in long time. In origin it wasn't called "chess" and playing's rule was different.
Chess is told to have originated in Gupta empire, North-West India , in the 6th century, called as caturanga which have four divisions (infantry,cavalry,elephant,chariotry that represented by pawn, knight,bishop,and rook respectively.) From that time it was spread into persian kingdom , and this caturanga was known in new name "chatrang". Later Persia was conquested by Islamic about 633-644 . Caturanga was known in new name again ,"Shatranj". Shatranj was called as ajedrez in Spanish, xadrez in Portugrese, zatrikion in Greek, and shan in the rest of Europe ,check is rendered as immediately capture the King, later check is sound like chess that is a name of game.
This game is spread into Europe by Muslim merchant who travel by sea. That was origin of chess game later.
It was believed this game reach Western Europe and Russia in three ways in 9th century. Spread throughout Europe before 1000.
In addition to , Some believed that chess was developed from chinese chess that called xiangqi.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Chess




Chess is a board game that more people like to play . Every age range or every gender used to play or used to see it. It is played on chessboard with 64 square arranged by 8 x 8 grid. Each side have 16 pieces that are consist of King , Queen , Rook , Knight , Bishop , Pawn. Someone who like playing chess can play from yesterday night to today night by not going to bed. It is amazing. Some old man told that Chess could teach lesson to life , how to solve problems that can adopt to solve life's problem .Chess add IQ. to human brain. Some chess grandmaster can play chess by unusing chessboard . They play with their opposite by using concentration and imagination of each chess position on board. Chess train player to have observation, memory.concentration,patient, strategy . All help player to be more clever. In the past the famous man often played chess . Perhap we can say Chess is king's game.

Although chess is one of Toys & Games in present but it have a long history, It's playing imitate fighting in a war field. Two side , opposite , try to win against side . Kill opposite side , conqueror more area . Fighting by intelligent brain.

Chess is human's heritage.