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 Chess Game Play   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The chess pieces should be set up on a standard chessboard with a white square in the near right hand corner.
Chess openings are a sequence of moves, often memorized, which will help a player build up their position and prepare for the middlegame.
It is often important for a player to castle (a special move that moves the king from the center of the board two squares towards one of the corners) to protect the king.
www.chesshere.com /resources/game_play.php   (1136 words)

  
 GameLow.com: Board Games>>Chess
In chess, when a king is directly attacked by one or more of the opponent's pieces, the player is said to be in 'check'.
Another theory exists that chess arose from the similar game of Chinese chess, or at least a predecessor thereof, existing in China since the 2nd century B.C. Joseph Needham and David Li are two of many scholars who have favored this theory.
Chess eventually spread westward to Europe and eastward as far as Japan, spawning variants as it went.
www.gamelow.com /board/chess.html   (2736 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chess boxing is one of the newest and most unlikely hybrid sports, designed to test both brain and brawn.
Chess boxing was the brain-child of Iepe Rubingh, a 31-year-old Dutch artist who lives in Berlin and got the idea for combining chess and boxing from a comic book.
Bullet chess is even more hectic than blitz chess: players have only 3 minutes per match to move their pieces.
www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/sports/view.asp?msgID=5438   (627 words)

  
 Bullet chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bullet chess, or alternately lightning chess, is a game of chess where each side has less than 3 minutes to complete all of their moves.
The Internet Chess Club (ICC)[1] and Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)[2] definition of bullet/lightning chess is any game where the expected duration is less than 3 minutes.
Bullet chess is even faster and more hectic than blitz chess.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bullet_chess   (255 words)

  
 Chess Games,Chess History,Chess Competitions,Chess Terms,Chess in India
Common view is that chess originated in India, since the Arabic, Persian, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish words for chess are all derived from the Sanskrit game Chaturanga.
Chess slowly spread westward to Europe and eastward as far as Japan.
When chess entered the Muslim world, the names of its pieces retained their Persian forms but its name became shatranj that continued in Spanish as ajedrez and in Greek as zatrikion, but in most of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian word shah = "king".
www.surfindia.com /sports/chess.html   (642 words)

  
 Chessville - Celebrities and Chess - Bill Walls' Wonderful World of Chess - by Bill Wall
And chess is always good for the movie mistakes and bloopers, with impossible positions, the chessboard set up wrong, a chess clock not used correctly or the button banged, or just bad historical references to chess.
One of the characters, John Pardee (Charles Quatermaine) is a wealthy chess player, inventor of the Pardee Gambit, and member of the Manhattan Chess Club (his character is from Isaac Rice and the Rice Gambit).
In the movie, one scene shows the chess clock set 10 minutes after the hour, and another scene with a new opponent, the clocks are set 20 minutes after the hour.
www.chessville.com /BillWall/ChessInMovies.htm   (2671 words)

  
 Fast chess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bullet chess, blitz chess, and rapid chess are chess games in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under the normal tournament time controls of 40 initial moves by each player in two hours.
In rapid chess tournaments, the final positions of the contestants may be resolved by a series of games with ever shortening control times.
The terms blitz or blitzkrieg in chess sometimes means a quick attack on the f7 or f2 square (see algebraic notation), regardless of the time control of the game (Kidder 1960).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blitz_chess   (495 words)

  
 chessterms
Pawns may suddenly appear on the seventh rank and promote to queen on their next move, checkmates may be accomplished via an overwhelming combination of pieces, etc. A win is accomplished by checkmating first on either board, or by winning on time (one of the opponent's flags falls first).
In this situation the enemy pawn is allowed by chess rules to capture the en passant pawn as if it had only advanced one square, but this may only occur on the opponent's next move.
Chess games stored in a cross-platform software format (.pgn) which may be read by all major chess database programs.
www.angelfire.com /games5/chessodyssey/chessterms.htm   (12983 words)

  
 ICC Help: bullet
Bullet is one of the rating categories in "finger".
The exact boundary between "bullet" and "blitz" is defined by "etime < 3".
Please note: If you have 10 stored bullet games in which you were the person who disconnected from ICC, you will lose any additional games in which you disconnect.
www.chessclub.com /help/bullet   (210 words)

  
 chess
Chess was popular at that time in the US because of the publicity surrounding the Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky world championship match.
I also independently won a lottery drawing for a chess set that was held the same day.
In bullet games—as in regular chess—people will often try to anticipate their opponent's next move.
www.plambeck.org /oldhtml/chess   (620 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chessboxing on ESPN, Playboy and Maxim
A chessboxing bout begins with chess, which is played on a board placed directly in the middle of the ring.
After each chess round, the bell sounds, and workmen remove the chessboard for a two-minute round of boxing, the gloves go back on, the punching recommences.
The biggest different between boxing and chess is that boxing is a sport of "enemies", while in chess you make friends.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=3208   (691 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Chess Boxing Tests Brain and Brawn in Berlin
Instead, it was the stocky fighter's mastery of knights and bishops that proved decisive in his successful bid to become the first European chess boxing champion on Saturday night in a dimly-lit warehouse in east Berlin.
Schneider's 12 minutes of chess time had nearly elapsed and his king and remaining pawns were in hopeless retreat.
Chess boxing was the brainchild of Iepe Rubingh, a 31-year-old Dutch artist who lives in Berlin and got the idea for combining chess and boxing from a comic book.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-10-6/32975.html   (750 words)

  
 Zchess.com Checkmate problems, tactics, and more chess resources.
There are several main chess strategies that you should always employ, unless you want to lose.
Most people are mislead into thinking that playing chess is a 'waste of brains', however I have a view that is strongly opposed to that.
Literally, you are not blindfolded, but Winboard displays a blank chess board, and you have to keep track of where all of the pieces are.
www.geocities.com /matthew1585   (1101 words)

  
 Barden on Chess | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Sport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He is hooked on one-minute bullet chess, at which he is the strongest and fastest gun at the Internet Chess Club.
Bullet is just one minute on the clock for all your moves.
Many bullet experts open with compact three-rank formations but Nakamura has also tried 1 e4 e5 2 Qh5, the novice move which he believes is reasonable and which he used over the board this year.
sport.guardian.co.uk /chess/story/0,15873,1582451,00.html   (272 words)

  
 Blitz is still King at World Open!
With the wide number of chess variants surfacing today, there is still the allure of playing a fast and furious game of blitz.
Known also as lightening or speed chess, this form brings perhaps the most exciting facet of chess right in full view.
GM Schmaltz is a four-time bullet chess World Champion and mowed down everyone that dared to take a shot at his amazing quickness and incredible eye for tactics.
www.thechessdrum.net /newsbriefs/2002/NB_Blitz.html   (446 words)

  
 Selfhelp-Chess-International Forum :: Forum Chess Rules (English)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Forum Chess is a link between close and correspondence chess (both may be combined) where the kind of transmission of moves may be choosen (online, by chat, on a server, by e-mail, phone, fax a close game or only by posting the moves in a forum and fix the moves on an external board).
Forum chess in the extended sense means to follow a link in a forum to any applet or any source to play, without posting (only permissible at friendly games).
Game notation may be choosen in the respective national algebraic chess notation or numeric notation (local regional or national forums and championships) and english or numeric notation (international forums, championships).
selfhelpchessin.kostenloses-forum.tk /selfhelpchessin-about427.html   (1671 words)

  
 uschess.org | FAQ (Starting Out)
Rating points and prizes are usually at stake in chess tournaments, so the atmosphere is much more competitive and quiet than in a casual club or café game.
Chess is a great game that can lull its devotees to trance like states of concentration.
A game of chess or a tournament can test your will power, discipline and sportsmanship, resulting in intense situations that draw many to the game.
beta.uschess.org /frontend/section_13.php   (1694 words)

  
 The Chess House
Assuming your youngster knows how to play chess and is maybe even giving his chess teacher a challenge, you should consider a chess computer he or she can play against at home.
Mikhail Tal dazzle the chess world in 1960 with his brilliant style and becoming the youngest chess player at the time to be world champion.
Chess: 5334 Problems brings the largest number of chess problems and patterns together in one huge volume.
blog.chesshouse.com   (3399 words)

  
 Summer Reading List
All the normal rules of chess etiquette and strategy are thrown out the window and success at bullet is often due to superior mouse speed, dubious interfaces (many bullet freaks use Thief 1.1 for instance, which drains time from the opponent), high lag, and superior application of “dirty tricks”.
Many bullet players are totally ruthless and will flag the opponent in Rook vs. Rook similarly dead drawn endings.
During my early exposure to bullet chess, adjusting to the various dirty tricks and high lag dilemmas (bullet chess unfortunately favors the side with higher lag) led to some unfortunate “overreactions,” including smashing up my own mouse and crushing my notebook computer screen (nowadays I take it all in stride).
www.jeremysilman.com /chess_ht_attack/040829_summer_reading_list.html   (442 words)

  
 Bullet Forge | "Silver Bullet Jewelery, Silver Bullets and Gold Bullets "
For earings,.223 bullets outside of the case is probably your best bet.
The first is a 45 ACP bullet made from solid 14k white gold.
The second is a 9mm bullet also solid 14k white gold but with a diamond in the hollow point.
www.bulletforge.com /jewelry.php   (281 words)

  
 Learn Chess! Are you making the best chess moves?
While there's no "silver bullet" way to learn at chess, I'm going to review a SOLID, proven tool that so many good players keep referring to as one of their personal favorites in their learning arsenal.
"The TASC Chess CD is one of my highest recommendations in regards to a software chess tutorial program - it is simple in layout, and moves quickly from basic to advanced levels, building at each step on what was learned in the previous level.
You'll also see some of the chess problems requiring you to apply the chess moves you're learning.
www.thechesshouse.com   (707 words)

  
 Chess
Chess Q and A Where queens can outmaneuver kings, and castles move freely
Is it possible in a game of chess for both White and Black to have 9 queens each on the board?
In chess, what is the notation for kingside and queenside castling?
www.answerbag.com /c_view/2223   (258 words)

  
 Dumbarton & District Chess Association
Chess Scotland : Excellent for chess news, active (and entertaining) message board, check results and current gradings and an indispensible resource for all Scottish chessplayers.
Test your chess : This site is for chess players, especially children, who would like to learn how to play better chess.
If you are a member of Chess Scotland, the software can also be obtained at Chess Scotland.
www.chessdumbarton.net /links.htm   (190 words)

  
 How to play chess on the internet
I like the option to have the board in a seperate window, although the seek window could use more color, and I wish that the clocks were larger and more colorful.
(This is bad for lightning or bullet chess.) But it is easier with some interfaces if you can click the starting and ending squares to move the pieces.
This is a partial list of chess interfaces and is probably very out of date.
www.entertainmentjourney.com /play.htm   (703 words)

  
 The Silver Bullet Security Podcast [Cigital]
The fifth edition of the Silver Bullet Security Podcast features Ed Felten, Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.
In the fourth episode of the Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary’s guest is Dana Epp, CEO and founder of Scorpion Software.
In the third episode of the Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Marcus Ranum, who is an acclaimed security guru widely credited with inventing the proxy firewall.
www.cigital.com /silverbullet   (1211 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - The third coming of Bobby Fischer?
The pattern is always the same: "Fischer", who does not have an ICC handle, will make contact either directly or through a third person and then play a series of very fast blitz games ("bullet chess"), using preposterous openings and whipping the living daylights out of his opponents.
All this was a chess-club story, until Nigel Short went public with his encounter with the mysterious ICC Fischer in the Telegraph last Sunday (9.9.01).
Aha, obviously this points to two things: the ICC Fischer wants to avoid the main lines of modern chess theory, just as he has propagated with his Fischer Random Chess.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=11   (1811 words)

  
 ssicc
Said Mr Tan, "This Internet Chess Festival is intended to be a fun event, not a full-fledged chess tournament.; Through this event, we hope that more students would take up chess and engage in meaningful activities on the Internet.
Howard Chiu is the current National Under 12 chess champion and he had won the Under 10 championship last year too.
However, he decided to take part in the Chess Carnival because he thinks Internet Chess is convenient and fun.  He added, "Since you won't be facing your opponents directly, you will not get intimidated by them as in over-the-board chess".
www.geocities.com /juniortay/ssicc.html   (974 words)

  
 collision detection: Left uppercut to black knight
In a contest there shall be 11 rounds, 6 rounds of chess, 5 rounds of boxing.
The contest is decided by: checkmate (chess round), exceeding the time limit (chess round), retirement of an opponent (chess or boxing round), KO (boxing round), or referee decision (boxing round).
Though as CNN found when it reported on the event, spectators were amazed that anyone could play this thing at all: "It's hard to imagine coming back from a round of boxing and remembering what you were trying to do on the chess board," said one.
www.collisiondetection.net /mt/archives/2005/10/boxing_and_ches.html   (576 words)

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