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Hello IWCT, This is a game called the question game. What you have to do is to respond to what the person who commented before you says. THERE IS ONE RULE: Everything said must be a question!!! Here, I'll start: How do I get back to the group homepage?

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I'm The "killer Mirage", My Multiple Personalities have their Own Entourage, Sparks Flash, Ignites the Gas, And Walking Talking Trailer Trash, Is Turned To Ash, With Out Pause, In My Basement Garage, I'm The World Famous Online Chess Champ Creep, I Chess Brawl And Creepy Crawl into Your Nightmares While You Sleep, I'm The Chess Canine Landmine That Digs Fifty Games Deep, And Dust Mops The Chess Slop Into A Ten Game Sweep, I'm a Certified Chess Nut Knucklehead, I Dragged Chess Bodies Cross State lines, So I'm Wanted By The Feds, I'm Not Chessafiably held Responsible Once My Eyes See Red, So Give Me My Meds, Or Strap Me Down To A Chess LooneyBed, I Caught This Chess Chilling Fever Long Ago, When I Saw Princess Di In A Castle Beneath The Mistle-Toe, I Coludn't Help But Let My Chess Feelings Grow, And What Do You know, With The Right Chess Meds, My Chess Words, Have A More Even Flow, Yea I Admit, I Got A Few Chess Screws Loose, But Let Me See You Accept A Daily Chess Challenge From Bullwinkle The Moose, Cocky Rocky In The Air Of Dispair Cause They Hate To Lose, And Everything's Cool, Till I'm The Chess Fool, That Awakes With My Pillow In A Hangman's Noose, Thinking It Was A Fluffy Stuffed White Granny The Goose, The Main Course At A Fine Dining Meal With Bobby Fischer And A Spruced Dr Seuss, Who Sponsored Me The Honor Of Ajoining Them On An Around The World Chess Cruise, Now Speak The Truth, Can You, Even Construe, To Fill These Chess Shoes?, Every Night When Sleep Creeps, I Answer A Seek, And Play Yogi The Bear, At A Really Silly Chess Table Fully Able With Food Baskets Everywhere, And Little Boo Boo The Fu All Up in My Chess Hair, With Some Finger Licking Home Made Chicken That He Wants To Share, I Cant Be in Denial, Cause I'll Never Stand Trial, I Just Have To Bare The Pain Of That Fat Nasty Chess MedsLady When She Smiles,

Hi all vote chess members! I am just writing to ask you to comment if you play vote chess, and how often you are on the website to get an idea for making new vote chess games. Thanks!

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OK I have heard that many people are frustrated because I don't announce the winner and answer of the daily riddle.Well that is going to change immediately because the daily riddle is going to have a new format.It is going to be moved to a forum.Here is the new format: Daily riddle here Yesterdays Riddle here Answer to yesterdays riddle here Winner of yesterdays riddle here Everyone please comment below and tell me your thoughts and feel free to give suggestions.

THE ORIGINS OF CHESS From elephants to Bishops Chess was originally invented, according to Murray, about four hundred A.D., so it isn't as old as a lot of people think. The Indians who originally played it did so on the board of an existing game, and they carved rather large and ornate pieces to represent the four parts of their army which existed at the time. Chataranga, as it was called, meant four parts; and these were the cavalry, the elephant brigade, the foot soldiers and the chariots. The sides were also provided with a General and his adviser. The cavalry were represented as horsemen, and these eventually became our Knights, and there has never been much confusion over what they were; Their moving even showed the side- stepping gait of a horse. The elephants were originally ornate creatures with full ears, tusks and riders; they became our present-day Bishops in a manner which was very curious, as we shall see. The chariots too have characteristic moves, capable of covering large areas of ground; they were called by the Persians Wolk, or wind or spirit, because of their speed, and they are our present-day Rooks. The foot soldiers: well, they were mere Pawns and have ever been so. The General has always been all powerful, although he changed to a King in medieval times. His adviser used to be somewhat weaker and male, and only since the change of sex has the Queen gained her present power over the realm. The game was carried by traveller and merchant to the East to form the basis of Japanese and Chinese varieties of Chess. It also moved to the West, to Persia, and eventually, after Persia was overrun by the Arabs, to Arabia. It was in the Arabic countries that Chess came into it's prime; it was the pride of Kings and Caliphs and they held great Tournaments and had their own Champions. The great Masters of these days, Al Sulede, Al Haudlee and Hassee were writers of Chess books on strategy and they played simultaneous matches, played blindfold, and even had a grading system. However, because of Mohammedan law images were not allowed, and some original Indian Pieces were replaced by mere representations; but at least the Arabs knew what the odd shapes were supposed to be even if the Priests didn't. Thus the King and Queen became mere ivory knobs with a small projection on top to represent the Rajah who used to sit in his Howdah on an elephant; the Queen was slightly smaller. The elephant became an ivory knob with two projections to represent either the ears or the tusks, while the horseman was an ivory knob with a single forward leaning projection which was the head. The Rooks became square pieces of ivory with a serrated top, and these seemed to have represented the edge of the chariot and the hands holding the reins. Now when the Arab merchants took these Pieces and the Games to Europe, the locals in Italy and Spain had not known the original Indian Pieces, and did not know accurately what these ivory Pieces were meant to represent; they certainly didn't know of elephants. Thus, the elephant's two separate tusk projections were in one part of Europe interpreted as heads, and they were carved as separate heads on the Piece. In another part of Europe the name of the elephant, Al-Feul was translated as Fol or Fool and the knobs were taken to be the knobs of a jester's hat. So even today, the French Piece is La Feul, or jester. In Scandinavia, however, the nearest word to La Feul was the Latin Calvis or Churchman, and as the two knobs on the Piece looked like parts of the Bishop's Mitre, so it became a Bishop. This wasn't so silly as it sounds, as the Bishops were an integral part of the Northern armies in these times. And thus we have progressed from elephants to Bishops. The Rooks being square ivory Pieces became tower shapes with crenellations arising from the serrated tops; thus they were renamed Castles for a short time, and they are called towers in some European countries. In Southern Russia, however, the locals, not knowing the meaning of Rook, interpreted it as Ruker or their local boat, and thus in some Russian sets there are boats in the corner positions.

I'm sorry, but one of my admins changed a setting to not everyone can join. This is a team that anyone across the world can join, and since everyone on this site is in this world, everyone and anyone can join. I have fixed this. Thanks! ~kgwkyle, The Creator of IWCT

Chess is more than a game of skill-it is a medieval history lesson in miniature. Have you ever played chess? Did you know that chess is the oldest skill game in the world? But chess is more than just a game of skill. It can tell you much about the way people lived in medieval times. If you look at the way a chess board is set up, then study the pieces and how they are used, you will realize that chess is a history of medieval times in miniature. The six different chess pieces on the board represent a cross section of medieval life with its many ceremonies, grandeur, and wars. Chess was played many centuries ago in China, India, and Persia. No one really knows for sure in which country it originated. Then, in the eighth century, armies of Arabs known as Moors invaded Persia. The Moors learned chess from the Persians. When the Moors later invaded Spain, the soldiers brought the game of chess with them. Soon the Spanish were playing chess, too. From Spain, chess quickly spread throughout all of Europe. Europeans gave chess pieces the names we know today; they probably had trouble pronouncing and spelling the Persian names, so they modernized them to reflect the way they lived. Today, the names certainly aren't modern but a thousand years ago they represented the very way in which both ordinary people and persons of rank lived their lives. The pawns on the chess board represent serfs, or laborers. There are more of them than any other piece on the board, and often they are sacrificed to save the more valuable pieces. In medieval times, serfs were considered no more than property of landowners, or chattel. Life was brutally hard for serfs during this era of history. They worked hard and died young. They were often left unprotected while wars raged around them. They could be traded, used as a diversion, or even sacrificed to allow the landowners to escape harm. The castle piece on a chess board is the home, or the refuge, just as it was a home in medieval times. In chess, each side has two castles, or rooks, as they are sometimes called. The knight on a chess board represents the professional soldier of medieval times whose job it was to protect persons of rank, and there are two of them per each side in a game of chess. Knights in a game of chess are more important than pawns, but less important than bishops, kings, or queens. Their purpose in the game of chess is to protect the more important pieces, and they can be sacrificed to save those pieces just as pawns can. There is a bishop in the game of chess, who represents the church. The church was a rich and mighty force in medieval times, and religion played a large part in every person's life. It is no wonder that a figure that represented the concept of religion found its way into the game. A bishop was the name for a priest in the Catholic church who had risen through the ranks to a more powerful position. In the game of chess, there are two bishops for each side. The queen is the only piece on the board during a chess game that represents a woman, and she is the most powerful piece of the game. In the game of chess, there is only one queen for each side. Many people do not realize that queens in medieval times often held a powerful, yet precarious, position. The king was often guided by her advice, and in many cases the queen played games of intrigue at court. But kings could set wives aside or even imprison them in nunneries with the approval of the church (and without the queen's approval), and many women schemed merely to hold her place at court. The machinations of queens working either for or against their kings are well noted in history throughout medieval times, and often she held more power than the king did. The king is the tallest piece on the board, and is as well defended on the chessboard as in medieval life. In medieval times, the surrender of the king would mean the loss of the kingdom to invading armies and that could mean change for the worse. It was to everyone's advantage, from the lowest serf to the highest-ranking official, to keep the king safe from harm. The king is the most important, but not the most powerful piece in chess. If you do not protect your king, you lose the game. The next time you set up your chessboard and get ready to play a friendly game or two, think of chess as a history lesson. The pieces on the board represent a way of life that is no more, and the real life dramas that occurred in medieval times are now only a game.

Hi, I am the creator of The International World Chess Team, and I have also created a group for people rated above 1550 called The Lords, which is a competitive group dedicated to becoming one of the best. Thanks!

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Welcome to the daily riddle.How this work is I post a riddle and the first person who gets it right wins bragging rights.If you would like to participate simply comment below with your answer but make sure you are looking at the correctly dated riddle.

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