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Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Very useful..
H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Sep 25, 2008 06:30 AM UTC:The point is that you are dead once your King is captured. So it does not matter if it is 'protected' by the Bishop, the Bishop wil not be able to recapture the enemy King, as the game is already over by the time it is his turn to move.
No. The King cannot move into jeopardy ever at all.
Joe Joyce wrote on Wed, Sep 24, 2008 11:58 PM UTC:From the previous post: 'If my king is on G1 ... can the opponent move their king to g2'? No. At no time in [standard] chess is a king allowed to move next to the enemy king, under any circumstances, including 'can the opponent move their king to g2 to mate me because of their bishop protecting the king?' The rules state a player may never move the king into a position where it can be taken next turn. No exception is made for a 'check' or 'checkmate' of the other king by the player's own king.
Question:
If my king is on G1, one of my pawns is on f2 and one on h2, an opposing bishop on f3 and the opposing king on h3, can the opponent move their king to g2 to mate me because of their bishop protecting the king?
How is 100 squares too large if 64 squares is too small?
Supposedly because 80 squares is perfect.
Then , maybe ... One can only hope that chess will live on in the form of a chess variant.
For now though, the popularity of 64 square chess helps 80 or 100 square variants and will remain gold standard.
Yet the best 80 square game - a Capablanca setup or like maybe ahem ... Gothic is much more constricted (and feels awkward) than 64 square fischer random or std chess. This is actual play experience.
Perhaps its because the pieces are too powerful -
but in all seriousness the challenge of 10x10 has already been overcome by the most successful commercial variant - Omega Chess.
And Birds and Ninjas /Stealth Ninja chess take it one step further. Ninja pawns, strengten the pawn chain and provide enough pawn play for a 10x10 which Omega might lack.
Besides choosing certain setups of fischer random plus reverse symmetry start positions of displacement chess (and Displacement Chess 2 with flexible castling) will ensure 64 square gold standard for say 200 years.
I suspect though that current orthodox chess lasts at least 100 yrs -
Interesting quote from 'The Pan Book of Chess' by Gerald Abrahams
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Capablanca, at the height of his powers, suggested that so much had been learned in Chess that novelty was on the wane. He suggested the addition of extra pieces on a larger board. But he lived to discover that Chess was richer than he had thought it to be.2008, and still status quo. Give it another 100 years maybe or a technology breakthrough that facilitates Computer to actually play the openings well without opening book. Or of course to ' solve ' chess.
Then , maybe ... One can only hope that chess will live on in the form of a chess variant.
For now though, the popularity of 64 square chess helps 80 or 100 square variants and will remain gold standard.
This popular thread from 1996 falls off in Comments during 2008. It's self-evident that the board's too small. Shogi outsizes 64 with 81, and Xiangqi dwarfs 64 with 90 spaces. Only so much can be done on 64 squares that has not been done already. Yet 64 trucks on in international competition like the archaism or the addictions it is. Sure it's neatly hexadecimal times 4 (2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2), but so what? 64 squares have simply outlived their usefulness. Its only use anymore, other than paramount historical interest really, is for early instruction to 6-, 7-, and 8-year-olds first learning the moves. The Biblical 40 days and nights, totalling 80 watches, is the optimum size and still fewer than Shogi and Xiangqi. Now 100 squares is too big because Pawns cannot be made to work right. If you get the size right first, it is possible that almost anything fits. 64 squares are too tucked in and narrow, too squat a size for Pawns most of all. No elbow room, no free rein for Knight either. Knight-a3 or -h3 is hopeless on 64-square board size, but N-j3 within the first 10 moves may make sense sometimes. 64 is practically size 8x6 for Pawns, because poor a- and h-Pawns cannot capture to their outside. All the action gets channelled up files b, c, d, e, f and g. They squeezed an extra 100 years out of 64 squares by standardizing Castling. 80 squares is the new Orthodoxy. Castling is not even necessary on 80 spaces, being the orthodox size now to the cognoscenti, but most prefer keeping castling there and even enlarging the possible squares King can move in his castle maneuvre with the Rook.
sir or madam, why can i not take the black pieces? only being able to move the white pieces is very restricting and one dimensional.
It was an awesome experiance to have such an vast pool of legalised informatoin_IT IS NOW I LEARNED TO PLAY 'CHESS'.
To the person who is confused by the 'one and one' knight's move description:
Read the description of the knight's move again. It's one horizontally or vertically, and then one diagonally. The 'one and two' description you're thinking of doesn't mention diagonal movement -- it's one vertically, then two horizontally or it's one horizontally, then two vertically.
Both descriptions get the knight to the same places.
Doesn't the Knight move one step and then two? This site says one and one???
This site was very helpful because my dad and I always have arguments on whether games are a draw or not, thank you.
Just what I was looking for!!!! I am a novice and haven't played for years and have a friend that wants to learn how to play chess. I needed to find some simple explanation as how to play, what the pieces are called and how they move, etc. Your page illustrations and text are excellent. Am mailing her a copy to study tomorrow as we will get-together next month. Thanks!!! Zee Williams
I like chess but I like it more on the computer. This is an incredible site!!
can i play?
that is the best
In response to George Duke's comments on the World Chess Championship: I am responding here because apparently on members can respond on the message board where George Duke's post appears, and I am not a member. Najdorf was born in Poland and resettled in Argentina, so I would not exactly say he was 'from Argentina.' As far as him being the 'other leading western hemisphere grandmaster since Capablanca', even if he if was from the western hemisphere, it would not be correct. Sammy Reshevsky (born in Poland, resettled in USA in early childhood) and Reuben Fine (born in the USA) both had careers equal to or greater than Najdorf's, although Fine's was admittedly shortened when he left chess to become a full-time psychologist.
I thought it was clear. I still dont understand castling though!!
This is good to understand the ruls of the game Chess . The digram of chess board , moves are really helpful to the new learner & the discription is nice .
jake wrote on Sat, May 26, 2007 11:19 AM UTC:Good ★★★★ This is a good rules up here they really helped me.
reynold wrote on Sun, Apr 22, 2007 07:25 PM UTC:Average ★★★good
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