Valuations chess standard

The following is the most common assignment of point values (Capablanca & de Firmian 2006:24-25), (Soltis 2004:6), (Silman 1998:340), (Polgar & Truong 2005:11).

Pieces	Symbol	Value
pawn		1
knight		3
bishop		3
rook		5
queen		9

The value of the king is undefined as it cannot be captured, let alone traded, during the course of the game. Some early computer chess programs gave the king an arbitrary large value (such as 200 points or 1,000,000,000 points) to indicate that the inevitable loss of the king due to checkmate trumps all other considerations (Levy & Newborn 1991:45). In the endgame, when there is little danger of checkmate, the fighting value of the king is about four points (Lasker 1934:73). The king is good at attacking and defending nearby pieces and pawns. It is better at defending such pieces than the knight is, and it is better at attacking them than the bishop is (Ward 1996:13).

This system has some shortcomings. For instance, three minor pieces (nine points) are often slightly stronger than two rooks (ten points) or a queen (nine points) (Capablanca & de Firmian 2006:24), (Fine & Benko 2003:458, 582).

Chess piece

Each piece moves in a different pattern.

• The rook moves any number of vacant squares along rows or columns (forward, backward, left or right). It also is involved when castling.
• The bishop moves any number of vacant squares diagonally. Consequently a bishop stays on squares of the same color throughout a game.
• The queen moves any number of vacant squares in any direction along a row, column, or diagonal.
• The king moves only one vacant square in any direction. It can also castle in conjunction with a rook.
• The knight moves to a vacant square in an “L”-shape (two spaces forward, backward, left, or right and one space perpendicular to it). The knight can jump over other pieces when moving.
• The pawn can only move forward one space, or optionally two spaces when on its starting square, in a straight line away from the player. When there is an enemy piece one square diagonally ahead from the pawn (either left or right), then the pawn may capture that piece. A pawn can perform a special type of capture of an enemy pawn called en passant. If the pawn reaches a back rank of the opposite player, it undergoes promotion to a rook, bishop, queen or knight.

Additional queens, rooks, bishops or knights may be produced by promotion of the pawns (so in theory a player may have up to nine queens, ten rooks, ten bishops, or ten knights).

Learning algebraic notation is simple

The name of the piece and the square it moves to – and a few other easy to learn rules including x = takes, + = check, 0-0 castle King side, and so on. The tedium comes in having to “learn” the grid which comes about by noting many games, right? What about learning to “think” and “speak” the grid, keeping the mind focused on the physical space referred to by a grid address, and saving the mental and physical energy required to see the piece, then look off to the side and edge of the board to figure out where it is? Once the grid is learned, writing it down becomes merely an excercise in discipline.

Open Source Software (under development) can be used to quickly learn the grid much like the addition/subtraction math facts and multiplication tables. (see http://www.chibcha.com/kids/index.html )
Used in conjuction with a SANCS chess board concentration can then focus on learning the game.

Chessboard

A chessboard is the type of checkerboard used in the game of chess, and consists of 64 squares (eight rows and eight columns) arranged in two alternating colors (light and dark).
The board is structurally similar to that used in English draughts (American checkers), although the latter is usually in red and black. Some low-cost sets (especially those sold in toy stores) may use red and black squares and include pieces for both games; though suitable for informal play, such boards are often not accepted for sanctioned play, depending on the local authority’s rules on equipment standards.

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Birdbase Chess Set

Birdbase Chess Set. Birdbase Chess Set by Joseph Wu. www.origami.com

Chess as Education

Dr. Tim Redman’s Chess as Education:
Character Assassination or Life of the Mind and Robert Ferguson’s doctoral dissertation. The following
studies will be reviewed briefly in this paper.

The first hypothesis was confirmed. There was a significant correlation between the ability to play chess
well, and spatial, numerical, administrative-directional, and paper work abilities. Other correlations
obtained were all positive, but only the above were significantly so. This finding tends to show that ability
in chess is not due to the presence in an individual of only one or two abilities but that a large number of
aptitudes all work together in chess. Chess utilizes all the abilities of an individual.

Puzzles Chess

The puzzles are designed for chess beginners. The explanation on Open Games, Semi-Open
Games, and Closed Games

All chess opening puzzles here are divided into 3
main groups: Open Game Chess Opening Puzzles, Semi-Open Game Chess Opening Puzzles,
and Closed Game Chess Opening Puzzles.

The art of Logical Thinking

Chess the art of Logical Thinking,

This is a Logical chess move by move type book except with more recent games.

Neil McDonald, an International Grandmaster and chess trainer, knows the ironic, cold reality that every chessplayer faces, from novice to champion:

When you sit down to play a game of chess you are in command of exactly the same eight pieces and eight pawns that Capablanca, Fischer and Kasparov have used to create masterpieces of grand strategy and tactical precision.  Their pieces didn’t have heightened powers nor more fertile soil on which to work their stratagems: just the same 64 squares, 32 white and 32 black

The ChessBase

Reader is based on the database program ChessBase 9.0. With the help of
this program all current chess database formats can be read. Please check whether you have
on your program CD/DVD the text file (readme.doc or liesmich.txt) with the latest notes. You
can access these notes with any text editor.