Learning chess and understanding how each piece moves can feel daunting to begin with, but actually, it is quite simple, and you’ll get the hang of chess moves quite quickly and learn to utilize the strengths of each in your game. Each chess piece on the…
Knowing how to read and write chess notation will help you boost your chess-playing abilities, ELO rating, and allow you to participate in club and competition matches. With this skill, you’ll finally be able to read and understand the games of the best players. What is…
Maybe you have recently watched a film of TV Series like The Queen’s Gambit and noticed the appearance of a clock next to the board and the game of chess being timed not realizing that time controls exist in chess. The two clocks, or single ‘Chess…
This article will move into reasoning as to why chess should be taught in school and there will be scientific reasoning from research studies, but we are talking about kids here. Kids want to have fun right, and if we can take all the science out…
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Chess presents players with innumerable puzzles and decision-making tasks that have to be carefully considered, thought out, and implemented with courage, but does chess make you smarter? Although research has suggested that there is no definite correlation between IQ and chess-playing ability, it does conclude that…
Of all the sports a competitive edge may be thought of first when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs and doping control, Chess may be well down your list. But consider this. Sitting for hours, huge mental stress and pressure, and the need to maintain concentration for long…
For as long as computers have been used, chess has been one of the games that programmers have tried to perfect predictive playing patterns to beat the best chess grandmasters in the world. We are some years down the line from when grandmasters were introduced to…
The game of chess not only has strategy but it has potential too. Being left with a bare king for one side without a resignation is rare, being left with only a king for each player is a draw. Can chess end with two kings? Chess…
There is not always a winner in a game of chess. On occasion, a stalemate or draw will occur leaving neither player the winner of the game. As frustrating as it may seem, it is very much part of the sport, and a very acceptable end…
