CHESS- HOBBY

What did you learn by playing chess?

1. Chess helps you to concentrate,

2. improve your logic.
3. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for
your actions,
4. how to problem solve in an uncertain environment
5. thinking about both short-term and long-term implications.
6. Learning and improving in the game requires a lot of patience

What I learnt from it?

Quickly redefining my comfort zone
Diverse experiences from nearly all states of India
Thriving, acing, struggling till the peak, having sleepless nights
since childhood, working without break, a thinking that has grown
differently, no schooling
Thinking multiple moves ahead , logical thinking, strategic,
decision making, giving equal importance to your opponent
and his moves
Building scenarios in head
Among Emotional aspects: Team, sacrifice, persistence, looking for
blunders, blitz chess : thinking under pressure
Behavorial: non verbal clues (like noticing opponents eyes to
understand which area of board he is thinking), responsibility,
vigilance ( some nasty opponents change situation on board when
you leave the board, plus they cheat etc)

Off-board: passion, Diverse experiences, pressure,

understanding age is no barrier in the game

On-board: Strategy, opponent's moves, scenario, pressure

Biggest learning: you are not afraid of things when you dont know it
is to be afraid of. Acing under excess pressure for long hours and
diverse surroundings .

Analytical and planning: strategy : several moves ahead, imagining

scenarios, planning and anticipating .
All of sudden change in unexpected moves. Travel a lot for diff type of
tournaments
 People's skills : Been to lived and lived in so many places

Chess: play for long hours against strong players . Much adverse
conditions ( often played in burning sun in the open in 40 degree
Celsius etc)

Experience: Never give up. Such things Learnt during the shaping ages
of brain. Work under extreme pressure. Work relentlessly.
Maintain calm, maintain confidence.
Problems: Expectations of world. Lack of training and guidance.
Balancing school and chess. I had to travel even for training.

Why didnt i pursue Chess Further?

Chess needed a lot of specialization. it was not possible to carry

both- chess and study simultaneously. Chess as a career difficult
to pursue in India as lack of environment for full time professional
players except cricket.

Moreover it need heavy expenditure to carry further on coaching (Rs 5

to 10 K per day) Foreign Tours, Govt help is small only when you win or
small coaching camps of a week just before competition)

(world champion Carlson did not complete study and other top
Indian players like humpy, parimarjan negi could not continue
regular study. Actually I hardly know any good indian players
who have gone to school.)

Variations of Chess:

1. Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of

long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess
server, through email or by the postal system;
2. Chess960 Also known as Fischer Random Chess, as it was
proposed by Bobby Fischer. The first rank (1 and 8) are shuffled, with some
conditions, e.g. i. Bishops should be
on opposite colour squares
ii. King should occupy one of the squares between the rooks
iii. Same pieces should be facing each other for black and white
Thus, the total number of initial positions created are 960, hence the name.
3. blindfold chess A form of chess in which one or both players
are not allowed to see the board.
4. Tweedle Chessa variant with two kings and two queens per side on a 1010
board
5. Double Chess: Double Chess is a chess variant invented by Julian S.
Grant Hayward in 1916.The game is played on a 1216 chessboard with each player in
control of two complete armies placed side-by-side.
6. bughouse chess A popular chess variant played with teams
of two or more. Bughouse chess (also known as Exchange chess,
Siamese chess, Tandem chess, Transfer chess, Double bughouse,
Cross chess, or simply bughouse or bug) is a popular chess variant played
on two chessboards by four players in teams of two. Normal chess rules apply,
except that captured pieces on one board are passed on to the teammate on
the other board, who then has the option of putting these pieces on his or her
board.
7. The game is usually played at a fast time control; this,
together with the passing and dropping of pieces, can make the game look
chaotic and random to the casual onlooker; hence the name bughouse, which
is slang for mental hospital. The game is traditionally played as a diversion
from regular chess both over the board and online. Yearly, several dedicated
bughouse tournaments are organised on a national and an international level.

(If you are taking bughouse chess as chess, then anti-chess should also be taken as variant,
where the aim is to lose all the pieces first. What would you call national chess ( just little
differences than international chess) )

International chess governing body

1. FIDE Federation Internationale des Echecs (World

Chess Federation), Athens governing body of international chess
competition. It is usually referred to as FIDE (/fide/, fee-day), its French
acronym
2. Motto: We are one people (Latin: Gens una sumus)
 3. FIDE President: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (Kalmykia, Russia);
defeated Kasparov in 2014; been president for 19 years. (was caught in a lot
of corruption and controversy lately. Want me to elaborate on that?)

4. International Correspondence Chess Federation

FIDE was founded in Paris, France, on July 20, 1924.
Headquarters: Athens, Greece
Membership: 158 national associations

Chess governing body in India

1. All India Chess Federation: Its current headquarters is in

Chennai..
2. President: PR Venketrama Raja
3. AICF has been repeatedly accused of bureaucratic
incompetence. In 2009, chess Grandmaster Humpy Koneru (then female world
No. 2) accused the AICF secretary DV Sundar of preventing her from
participating in the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin. The same year the AICF was
accused of arbitrarily banning grandmaster G N Gopa for not playing in a
match (the ban was subsequently revoked).In 2012, the AICF president N
Srinivasan, was criticised for not supporting Viswanathan Anand in World
Chess Championship 2010, by not trying to host the match in India.

Chess Rating Systems

1. Elo rating

1. The Elo rating system is currently the most widely used.

2. a method for calculating the relative skill levels of
players in two-player games such as chess.
3. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-
born American physics professor and a chess master.
4. Difference between rating of winner and loser
determines the number of points added or subtracted after a game.
5. If low rated player wins, more rating points are
transferred => Self-correcting system
6. Supposing Player A was expected to score E A points but
actually scored SA points.new rating = old rating + K(S-E)
 7. K-factor = Maximum possible adjustment per game =>
Sensitivity of rating system

b. Glicko System: It was invented by Mark Glickman as an

improvement of the Elo rating system. The Glicko-2 system is a refinement
and is used by the Australian Chess Federation and some online playing sites
like Lichess, Free Internet Chess Server, Chess.com, Counter Strike: Global
Offensive, Guild Wars 2.

(Want me to elaborate upon norm system? How people become GM, IM,
CM, FM? )

Time controls used in Chess?

1. Classic the World Chess Federation FIDE sets a single

classical time control for all major FIDE events, according to the handbook: 90
minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the
game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

The list of FIDE events where this single time control will be used:

Chess Olympiads
World Team Championships
Continental Team Championships
World Cup
Continental Championships
Zonal Tournaments
World Youth & Junior Championships
Continental Youth & Junior Championships
World School Championships
Continental Club Championships

Exceptions can be made, though; (it is an advancement over the Fischer

mode game which was the most popular at the time I played (some 8 years
back) where on every move 30 seconds were awarded)
2. Rapid: Rapidplay game is one where either all the moves must be completed in a
fixed time of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player; or the time allotted plus 60
times any increment is of more than 10 minutes but less than 60 minutes for each player
3. Lightning is the quickest limit, then blitz. Chess has an
active category after this. In chess, Lightning refers to 3 minutes or below,
blitz refers to between 4 and 15 minutes, and Active is between 15 and 30. (
some chess rules also change in such systems like king can be directly killed )
 4. Sudden death this is the simplest methodology. Each player
is assigned a fixed amount of time for the whole game: once a players main
time expires, he loses the game. (no longer in practice mostly)

5. Hourglass Each players clock starts with a specified time

(e.g. 1 minute, 10 min etc.). While Player 1 is deciding a move, player 1s
clock time is decreasing and Player 2s clock time is increasing. This is similar
to how an hourglass works; sand empties from one container and fills into the
other.
(there are just so many more time controls in chess, but they are not
popular. Those time controls (around 25) are listed below the chess clock.
You can see this one for all other rules
http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?view=article&id=171)
Chess Titles:

1. GM = Grandmaster: Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster

is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is
generally held for life. In chess literature it is usually abbreviated to GM.
Players with an Elo rating greater than 2700, such as Viswanathan Anand,
Garry Kasparov, Magnus Carlsen, and Vladimir Kramnik are sometimes
informally referred to as Super-GMs
2. IM = International Master Ims usually have an Elo rating
between 2400 and 2500. Sometimes, though, there may be an IM who
has not yet become a Grandmaster but has a rating greater than
2500.
3. FM = FIDE Master the most usual way for a player to qualify
for the FIDE Master title is by achieving an Elo rating of 2300 or more.
4. CM = Candidate Master Introduced in 2002, the most usual
way for a player to qualify for the Candidate Master title is by achieving an Elo
rating of 2200 or more. Candidate master ranks below other open FIDE titles
5. Though the open FIDE titles are not gender-segregated, the
following four titles given by FIDE are exclusive to women and may be held
simultaneously with an open title. The requirements for these titles are about
200 Elo rating points lower than the requirements for the corresponding open
titles. Not all leading female players have elected to take such titles; for
example Grandmaster Judit Polgr, in keeping with her policy of playing only
open competitions, never took a womens title.

What is hypermodernism in chess?

 a. Controlling the centre from a distance using the knight and
the bishop (fianchetto), instead of physical occupation using pawn advance
(classical theory).
b. Hypermodern openings include the Rti Opening, Kings Indian
Defence, Queens Indian Defence, Nimzo-Indian Defence, Grnfeld Defence,
Bogo-Indian Defence, Old Indian Defence, Catalan Opening, Kings Indian
Attack, Alekhines Defence, Modern Defence, Pirc Defence, Larsens opening,
Sokolsky Opening, and to a lesser degree the English Opening.
c. Key player: Nimzowitsch, Richard Reti. Name given by
Tartakower

Players
Indian:
Men:

In top 20 rankings
2. Vishwanathan Anand
Indian chess Grandmaster and
a five-time World Chess Champion.
 Viswanathan Anand became Indias first grandmaster in 1988.
In the World Chess Championship 2013 he lost to challenger Magnus
Carlsen and he lost again to Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2014.
In April 2006 Anand became the fourth player in history to pass the
2800 Elo mark on the FIDE rating list, after Garry Kasparov,Vladimir Kramnik
and Veselin Topalov.
He occupied the number one position for 21 months, the 6th longest
on record.
He was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award
in 199192, Indias highest sporting honour.
In 2007, he was awarded Indias second highest civilian award, the
Padma Vibhushan, making him the first sports person to receive the award.
Lubomir Kavalek describes Anand as the most versatile world
champion ever, pointing out that Anand is the only player to have won the
world chess championship in tournament, match, and knockout format, as
well as rapid time controls

14. Pentala Harikrishna

Pentala Harikrishna (born May 10, 1986) is a chess Grandmaster
from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He became the youngest grandmaster from India on September
12, 2001.
He was Commonwealth Champion in 2001 and World Junior
Champion in 2004.Harikrishna won the Tata Steel Group B in 2012 and Biel
event in 2013.
He represented India at seven Chess Olympiads from 2000 to 2012.

Others:
1. Krishnan Sasikiran (born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess
grandmaster
2. Dibyendu Barua 2nd Indian GM
3. P. Harikrishna (2733)
4. Parimarjan Negi 2nd youngest grandmaster, at the age of 13 years
and 142 days (13 years, 4 months, and 20 days), he became the second-
youngest GM ever, second only to Sergey Karjakin,
5. K. Sasikiran
6. Surya Shekhar Ganguly
7. Abhijeet Gupta
8. Vidit Gujrathi

World:
 3. Bobby Fischer
At age 13, Fischer won a brilliancy that became known as The
Game of the Century
An American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess
Champion.
Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time.
Fischers My 60 Memorable Games (1969) remains a revered
work in chess literature
he became the first official World Chess Federation (FIDE) number-
one-ranked player, spending a total of 54 months at number one
.In 1972, he captured the World Chess Championship from Boris
Spassky of the USSR in a match held in Reykjavk, Iceland, publicized as a
Cold War confrontation which attracted more worldwide interest than any
chess championship before or since.
In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement
could not be reached with FIDE over one of the conditions for the match. This
allowed Soviet GM Anatoly Karpov, who had won the qualifying Candidates
cycle, to become the new world champion by default.
After this, Fischer became a recluse, disappearing from both
competitive chess and the public eye until 1992,
During the 1990s and early 2000s,made increasingly anti-American
and anti-semitic remarks on various radio stations. Possibly as a result, his
U.S. passport was revoked.Unaware of the revocation, Fischer ^ravelled to
Japan, where he was arrested by Japanese authorities and detained for more
than eight month under threat of deportation. In March 2005, Iceland granted
Fischer full citizenship,leading Japanese authorities to release him from prison.
Fischer flew to Iceland, where he lived until his death on January 17, 2008.

4. Magnus Carlsen
a Norwegian chess grandmaster, No. 1 ranked player in the world
and reigning World Chess Champion in classical and rapid.
His peak rating is 2882, the highest in history.
A chess prodigy, Carlsen became a Grandmaster in 2004, at the age
of 13 years, 148 days, making him the third youngest grandmaster in history.
On 1 January 2010, at the age of 19 years, 32 days, he became the
youngest chess player in history to be ranked world No. 1.
In November 2013, Carlsen defeated Viswanathan Anand in the
World Chess Championship 2013, thus becoming the new world chess
champion. On the May 2014 FIDE rating list, Carlsen reached his top Elo rating
of 2882,the highest in history.

(First Official world Champion : Stentiz 1886 born at Prague ( then Austria) later, went to
USA. Emanuel LAsker was German chess player who was World Chess Champion for 27
years (from 1894 to 1921). still known as one of the strongest players
 Winner of Candidates matches challenges existing world Champion and called as
Challenger.)
Women:
Indian
In top 20 rankings
2.Koneru Humpy
In October 2007, she became the second female
player, after Judit Polgr, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being
rated 2606
In 2002, Koneru became the youngest woman ever to
achieve the title of grandmaster (not solely a Woman Grandmaster)
at the age of 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgr's
previous mark by three months;this record was subsequently broken
by Hou Yifan in 2008

12. Dronavalli Harika

Others:
Tania Sachdev who holds the FIDE titles of International Master and
Woman Grandmaster.

World

Judit Polgar
a Hungarian chess grandmaster.
She is generally considered the strongest female chess player in
history.
In 1991, Polgr achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15
years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the
record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer
Polgr is the only woman to have won a game against a reigning
world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world
champions in either rapid or classical chess
Polgr was born on 23 July 1976 in Budapest, to a Hungarian Jewish
family.
Polgr and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and
International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out
by their father Lszl Polgr, in an attempt to prove that children could make
exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early
age

Susan Polgar
 She is an Olympic and World chess champion, a chess teacher,
coach, writer and promoter and the head of the Susan Polgar Institute for
Chess Excellence
She is the oldest of the famous "Polgr sisters": Zsuzsa, Zsfia, and
Judit.
GLOSSARY
Time pressure (or time trouble or zeitnot) is the situation of having very
little time on a player's clock to complete their remaining moves.

absolute pin A pin against the king is called absolute since the pinned
piece cannot legally move (as moving it would expose the king to check)

advanced pawn A pawn that is on the opponent's side of the board

Armageddon chess A game which, under the tournament rules, counts

as a win for Black if it ends in a draw

attraction The sacrifice of minor or major pieces to expose the enemy

king.

back-rank mate A checkmate delivered by a rook or queen along a back

rank from which the mated king is unable to move because it is blocked
by friendly pieces (usually pawns) on the second rank. This is also
sometimes referred to as a back-row mate.

bad bishop A bishop that is hemmed in by the player's own pawns

bishop pair In open positions, two bishops are considered to have an

advantage over two knights or a knight and a bishop. (In closed positions
knights may be more valuable than bishops.)

bishops on opposite colors (or bishops of opposite colors) A

situation in which one player has only his or her light-square bishop
remaining while the other has only his or her dark-square bishop
remaining. In endgames, this often results in a draw if there are no other
pieces (only pawns), even if one side has a material advantage of one,
two or even three pawns, since the bishops control different squares
blockade A strategic placement of a minor piece directly in front of an
enemy pawn, where it restrains the pawn's advance and gains shelter
from attack

book move An opening move found in standard reference books on

opening theory. A game is said to be "in book" when both players are
playing moves found in the opening references. A game is said to be "out
of book" when the players have reached the end of the variations
analyzed in the opening books, or if one of the players deviates with a
novelty

Breakthrough: Destruction of a seemingly strong defense, often by

means of a sacrifice.

Cassa The goddess of chess, occasionally invoked to indicate luck or

good fortune: "Cassa was with me

Castling A special move involving both the king and one rook. Its purpose
is generally to protect the king and develop the rook. Castling on the
kingside is sometimes called "castling short" and castling on the
queenside is called "castling long";

chessman The movable figures placed on the board in a game of chess.

Includes both pieces and pawns.

coffeehouse Adjective used to describe a move, player, or style of play

characterized by risky, positionally dubious play that sets traps for the
opponent. The name comes from the notion that one would expect to see
such play in skittles games played in a coffeehouse or similar setting,
particularly in games played for stakes

connected passed pawns Passed pawns on adjacent files.

connected rooks Two rooks of the same color on the same rank or file
with no pawns or pieces between them. Connected rooks are usually
desirable

counter-gambit A gambit offered by Black

decoy In chess, decoying is the tactic of ensnaring a piece, usually the
king or queen, by forcing it to move to a poisoned square with a sacrifice
on that square.

Discovered attack: An attack made by a queen, rook or bishop when

another piece or pawn moves out of its way.

Discovered check A discovered attack to the king. This occurs when a

player moves a piece, resulting in another piece putting their opponent's
king in check.

double attack Two attacks made with one move

doubled pawns A pair of pawns of the same color on the same file;
generally considered a weakness due to their inability to defend each
other.

en passant [from French: "in the act of passing"] The rule that allows a
pawn that has just advanced two squares to be captured by an enemy
pawn that is on the same rank and adjacent file. The pawn can be taken
as if it had advanced only one square. Capturing en passant is possible
only on the next move.

exchange1. The capture of a pair of pieces, one white and the other
black, usually of the same type (i.e., rook for rook, knight for knight, etc.),
or of bishop for knight (two pieces that are considered almost equal in
value).2. The advantage of a rook over a minor piece (knight or bishop).
The player who captures a rook for a minor piece is said to have "won the
exchange", and the opponent is said to have "lost the exchange". An
exchange sacrifice is giving up a rook for a minor piece.

FAN An abbreviation for figurine algebraic notation, which substitutes

symbols for letters to represent piece names (e.g. f3 instead of Nf3).

flank The queenside a-, b-, and c-file, or the kingside f-, g-, and h-file, also
called wing; distinguished from the center d-file and e-file.
forced mate A sequence of two or more moves culminating in checkmate
that the opponent cannot prevent.

forfeit Refers to losing the game by absence or by exceeding the time

control

fork A simultaneous attack by a single piece on two (or more) of the

opponent's pieces (or other direct target, such as a mate threat). When
the attacker is a knight the tactic is often specifically called a knight fork.
Some sources state that only a knight can give a fork and that the term
double attack is correct when another piece is involved, but this is by no
means universal usage.

gambit A sacrifice (usually of a pawn) used to gain an early advantage in

space or time in the opening.

Greek gift sacrifice Also known as the classical bishop sacrifice, it is a

typical sacrifice of a bishop by White playing Bxh7+ or Black playing
Bxh2+ against a castled king to initiate a mating attack.

hole A square that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control
with a friendly pawn. The definition is applied conditionally based on the
position: the square must have some positional significance to the
opponent for it to be considered a hole squares on the first and second
ranks are not holes. An example of a hole is the e4-square in the
Stonewall Attack.

isolani Refers to a d-pawn with no pawns of the same color on the

adjacent c-file and e-file, and is a synonym for isolated queen pawn

miniature A short game (usually no more than 20 to 25 moves),

opposition A situation in which two kings stand on the same rank, file or
diagonal with one empty square between them. The player to move may
be forced to move the king to a less advantageous square. Opposition is a
particularly important concept in endgames.
Philidor position Usually refers to an important chess endgame which
illustrates a drawing technique when the defender has a king and rook
versus a king, rook, and pawn. It is also known as the third rank defence,
because of the importance of the rook on the third rank cutting off the
opposing king.

pin When a piece cannot move (either legally or advisedly) because doing
so would expose a valuable piece, usually the king or queen, to attack.
Pins against the king are called absolute because it is then illegal to move
the pinned piece. Other pins are called relative pins.

poisoned pawn An unprotected pawn which, if captured, causes

positional problems or material loss

promotion Advancing a pawn to the eighth rank, converting it to a

queen, rook, bishop or knight. Promotion to a piece other than a queen is
called underpromotion.

Romantic chess Romantic chess was the style of chess prevalent in the
19th century. It is characterized by bold attacks and sacrifices.

royal fork A fork between king and queen.

simplification A strategy of exchanging pieces of equal value.

Simplification can be used defensively to reduce the size of an attacking
force.

skewer An attack to a valuable piece, compelling it to move to avoid

capture and thus exposing a less valuable piece which can then be taken.

stalemate A position in which the player whose turn it is to move has no

legal move and his or her king is not in check. A stalemate results in an
immediate draw.

triangulation A technique used in king and pawn endgames (less

commonly seen with other pieces) to lose a tempo and gain the
opposition.
 zugzwang [German] When a player is put at a disadvantage by having
to make a move; where any legal move weakens the position. Zugzwang
usually occurs in the endgame, and rarely in the middlegame.

blunder A very bad move, an oversight (indicated by "??" in notation).

(Arbiter is the term used for umpire in chess. National and international arbiter. )

NOTATION
1. Algebraic notation (or AN) is
a method for recording and describing the moves in a game of
chess. It is now standard among all chess organizations and most books,
magazines, and newspapers.
standard algebraic notation (SAN) required by FIDE.
Each square of the chessboard is identified by a unique coordinate
paira letter and a number.
The vertical columns of squares (called files) from White's left (the
queenside) to his or her right (the kingside) are labeled a through h. The
horizontal rows of squares (called ranks) are numbered 1 to 8 starting from
White's side of the board.
Each piece type (other than pawns) is identified by an uppercase
letter, usually the first letter in the name of the piece in whatever language is
spoken by the player recording. English-speaking players use the letter K for
king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, and N for knight (since K is already
used).
Other languages may employ different letters, for example, French
players use F for bishop (from fou).
Each move of a piece is indicated by the piece's uppercase letter,
plus the coordinate of the destination square. For example, Be5 (move
a bishop to e5), Nf3 (move a knight to f3), c5 (move a pawn to c5no piece
letter in the case of pawn moves).
In some publications, the pieces are indicated by icons rather than
by letters, for example: c6. This is called figurine algebraic notation (FAN)
and has the advantage of being language-independent.
 En passant captures are indicated by specifying the capturing
pawn's file of departure, the "x", the destination square (not the square of the
captured pawn), and (optionally) the suffix "e.p." indicating the capture was
en passant.[3] For example, exd6e.p.
When two (or more) identical pieces can move to the same square,
the moving piece is uniquely identified by specifying the piece's letter,
followed by (in descending order of preference):
1. the file of departure (if they differ); or
2. the rank of departure (if the files are the same but the ranks differ);
or
3. both the file and rank (if neither alone is sufficient to identify the
piecewhich occurs only in rare cases where one or more pawns have
promoted, resulting in a player having three or more identical pieces able to
reach the same square).For example, with knights on g1 and d2, either of
which might move to f3, the move is specified as Ngf3 or Ndf3
When a pawn moves to the last rank and promotes, the piece
promoted to is indicated at the end of the move notation, for example: e8Q
(promoting to queen)
Castling is indicated by the special notations 0-0 (for kingside
castling) and 0-0-0 (queenside castling).
A move that places the opponent's king in check usually has the
symbol "+" appended. Or sometimes a dagger () is used, or the abbreviation
"ch". Double check is commonly indicated the same as check, but is
sometimes represented specially as "dbl ch", or in older books as "++". The
Encyclopedia of Chess Openings omits any indication of check.
Checkmate at the completion of moves can be represented by the
symbol "#" (some use "++" instead, but the USCF recommends "#"). Or the
word mate is commonly used. Occasionally the double dagger () is seen.

Descriptive notation
 is a notation for recording chess games, and at one time was the
most popular notation in English- and Spanish-speaking countries
It was used in Europe until it was superseded by algebraic notation,
introduced by Philipp Stamma
With the exception of the knight, each piece is abbreviated to the
first letter of its name: K for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, P for
pawn. Knight begins with the same letter as king, so it is abbreviated to either
Kt (used in older chess literature) or N
In descriptive notation each square has two names, depending on
Black's or White's viewpoint. Each file is given a name corresponding with the
piece that occupies the first rank at the start of the game. Thus in English
descriptive notation the queen's file is named "Q" and the king's file is named
"K".
Since there are two each of the remaining pieces on the first rank, it
is necessary to distinguish between them. The pieces on the queen's side of
the board (left for White, right for Black) are named with respect to the queen
i.e. "queen's rook", "queen's knight" and "queen's bishop" and have the
shortened names "QR", "QN" and "QB" respectively. Similarly, the pieces on
the king's side (right for White, left for Black) are named with respect to the
king i.e. "king's rook", "king's knight" and "king's bishop" and have the
shortened names "KR", "KN" and "KB" respectively.
The rank is given a number, ranging from 1 to 8, with rank 1 being
closest to the player.
This method of naming the squares means that each square has
one name from White's point of view and another from Black's.
For instance, the corner square nearest White's left hand ("a1" in
algebraic notation) is called "queen's rook 1" (QR1) by White and "queen's
rook 8" (QR8) by Black.
: A move without capture is represented by the piece's name, a
hyphen and the square at the end of the move e.g. N-QB3 (knight to queen's
bishop 3), P-QN4 (pawn to queen's knight 4). In some literature, if the move is
to the first rank, the "1" is omitted.
Capture: A move with capture is represented by the piece's name, a
cross (x) and the destination square is identified by the name of the piece
captured e.g. QxN (queen captures knight).
 Castling: The notation O-O is used for castling kingside and O-O-O
for castling queenside. The word "Castles" is sometimes used instead,
particularly in older literature.
Promotion: Parentheses are used to indicate promotion, with the
piece resulting from the promotion in parentheses: P-R8(Q) or after a slash: P-
R8/Q. Sometimes an equal sign is used: P-R8=Q.
Special terms: Special indicators that are appended to the move
include e.p. (en passant), ch or + (check), mate or ++ (checkmate), resigns,
and draw.

Advantages :By identifying each square with reference to the player

on move, descriptive notation better reflects the symmetry of the game's
starting position ("both players opened with P-QB4 and planned to play B-KN2
as soon as possible"), and because the pieces captured are named, it is easy
to skim over a game record and see which ones have been taken at any
particular point.

Confusion can arise because there are two names for each square.
Errors may be made when recording games or viewing recorded games,
because of this element of ambiguity. In comparison, abbreviated algebraic
notation represents the same moves with fewer characters, in most cases,
without any ambiguity.
Example

English Descriptive Notation Algebraic Notation

1. P-K4 P-K4 1. e4 e5
2. N-KB3 N-QB3 2. Nf3 Nc6
3. B-B4 B-B4 3. Bc4 Bc5
4. P-QN4 BxNP 4. b4 Bxb4
5. P-B3 B-R4 5. c3 Ba5
6. P-Q4 PxP 6. d4 exd4
7. O-O P-Q6 7. O-O d3
8. Q-N3 Q-B3 8. Qb3 Qf6
9. P-K5 Q-N3 9. e5 Qg6
10. R-K1 KN-K2 10. Re1 Nge7
11. B-R3 P-N4 11. Ba3 b5
12. QxP R-QN1 12. Qxb5 Rb8
13. Q-R4 B-N3 13. Qa4 Bb6
14. QN-Q2 B-N2? 14. Nbd2 Bb7?
15. N-K4 Q-B4? 15. Ne4 Qf5?
 16. BxQP Q-R4 16. Bxd3 Qh5
17. N-B6 ch! PxN 17. Nf6+! gxf6
18. PxP R-N1 18. exf6 Rg8
19. QR-Q1! QxN 19. Rad1! Qxf3
20. RxN ch NxR 20. Rxe7+ Nxe7
21. QxP ch! KxQ 21. Qxd7+! Kxd7
22. B-B5 dbl ch K-K1 22. Bf5+ Ke8
23. B-Q7 ch K-B1 23. Bd7+ Kf8
24. BxN mate 24. Bxe7#

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below Pavel ljanov. Vishy Anand ended with a good win with Black but his
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Holland in the Netherlands.

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2015 news

Last year, Magnus Carlsen achieved the incredible feat of collecting all
three World Championship titles. In 2015 he lost his blitz title, but that didnt
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Chess, Grenke Classic, Shamkir Chess, London Chess Classic and the Qatar
Masters Open.

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four tournaments:Gibraltar, Zurich, the US Championship and the Millionaire
Open.

Qatar Masters Open one of the most extraordinary tournaments ever to be

organised. The top seed was none other than World Champion Magnus
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Deep Blue won its first game against a world champion on

February 10, 1996, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in game one of
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Blue was then heavily upgraded, and played Kasparov again in May
1997. Deep Blue won game six, therefore winning the six-game
rematch 32 and becoming the first computer system to defeat a
reigning world champion in a match under standard chess
tournament time controls. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and
demanded a rematch. IBM refused and retired Deep Blue.

(ChessOlympiad ( Team Event ) every two year last in 2014 at

Tromso Norway
Open/ Men: 1. China 2 Hungary 3 India.
Women 1 Russia 2 China 3 Ukraine
2016 : will be held at Baku

The Chess World Cup 2015 was a 128-player single-

elimination chess tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 10 September to 5
October 2015.
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Current & Past world champion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_World_Chess_Championship

Current Classical and Rapid : Magnum Carlson

Standard/ Classic Carlson beat V Ananad at sochi Russia 2014

Last time also Carlson as challenger beat world champion V anand in Chennai
2013

V anand was 4 time world Champion + 1 time fide world

( for some time there were two world championship)

Next 2016 wc at USA

Google national champions too. The national championship format has also changed. Want
me to elaborate on that?
India womens champion 2015 :

2015 : r vaishali
2014 Padmini rout

2 womens are mens Grand Master Humpy n dronawali

5 are Mens IM
7 WGM + above 7
 No of rated in india./ Chess Statstics in India

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51179 Registered players
19126 FIDE rated players

39 Grand Masters
85 International Masters
7 Women Grand Masters

chess in world cup.

Olympics : not in Olympics. Why ?

asiad. : Included in 2006 Asian games at Doha ( middle east )
and also in 2010 Guangzao- China
Rapid: men and women individual, men and women team, mixed team

Koneru hampi won womens rapid gold in Doha- 2006

And also mixed team

2010: D harika Bronze.

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Black opening : Sicilian defense, Alekhine's Defense
Kings Gambit

King's Indian Defense

Alkehine defense