I thought that the rook used to be an elephant as well.
http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=166
The thing about reward i heard a long time ago from my math teacher but i didn t know that is from this legend. . .interesting.
I'm heard someone say that you can castle your Queen. He says that it is pointless, because you box-in your most powerful piece, but is it possible?
This is funny :
A pousada in Loures was partially destroyed last week when competitors in the national under-20 chess championships who were staying there went on the rampage.
Internationally renowned chess master Lums Santos called time at the championships to ask the competitors who had been responsible for the damage, much worse that police first suspected. No-one admitted responsibility. Twenty two of the thirty five competitors were suspended from the competition. With football hooliganism relegated to the seventies and eighties, in the main part, will this new trend catch on?
chess is over 1400 years old. yeah, you all probably knew that
Celebrity players include (and included) John Lennon, Sting, Madonna and Napoleon.
Also Brad Pitt and Stephen Seagall
I could totally take Stephen Seagall.
I found this on-line. Don't know if it's real, but it's cool:
After Alekhine had taken the championship title from Capablanca, Capa apparently spent quite a bit of his spare time hanging out in a specific cafe in Paris. Friends, acquaintances, and others would often drop by, participating in games and libations with the former, charismatic, champion.
One day, while Capa was having coffee and reading a newspaper, a stranger stopped at his table, motioned at the chess set and indicated he would like to play if Capa was interested. Capa's face lit up, he folded the newspaper away, reached for the board and proceeded to pocket his own queen. The opponent (who apparently had no idea who Capablanca was) reacted with slight anger. "Hey! You don't know me! I might beat you!", he said.
Capablanca, smiling gently, said quietly, "Sir, if you could beat me, I would know you."
haha, very cool
Brad Pitt plays chess? Can this be verified? Also, what is his rating?
I personally play Chinese chess (中国象棋 or just 象棋 for short) and enjoy just as much as the chess we all know here. You might have heard of Chinese chess before... maybe not so here's a little "thing" you may not know about Chinese chess! ^^
To address the first post, the piece positioned relative to the bishop and moves like (similar to) the bishop is called an elephant (象). In 中国象棋, the rooks are also chariots (like in many other types of chess) sometimes they are called "cars", the knights are "horses" (there is a specific rule where one knight can attack another but the other cannot attack back). The queen is replaced by two "advisors" in, which the two are placed next to the king (also the general). Five soldiers in 象棋 replace the eight pawns in the type of chess we are most familiar with. The most interesting piece (to me at least) is the cannon and makes the game distinctively different from our chess. 中国象棋 is very entertaining in its own way so if you have time, check it out!
Wikipedia provides a good starting foundation and explains the way the pieces move rather explicitly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_chess
The game probably originated somewhere in the Middle East or India but I won't go into the specifics.
*If you see random characters or symbols it might be that chess.com does not support Chinese fonts and/or you do not have the language pack to support it.
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