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Chess Strategies - 1 views

  • Understanding the relative strength of one's resources is a key generic element of strategy. One way to do this in chess is to give each piece a value and sum up the value of each player's respective army.
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      Bughouse Chess Paraphrase www.intuitor.com 2008 May 7, 2014 Paraphrase To strategize you need to know how strong each piece is. You can then compare your strength to your opponent's.
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What is Bughouse Chess? A Great Way for Kids to Learn Chess | Chess Blog of OnlineChess... - 1 views

  • When a player on one board captures a piece, he passes it to his partner to place on his board (partners play opposite colors). Pieces must be placed on open squares, and pawns may not be placed directly on the 8th rank.
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      Bughouse Chess Quote www.onlinechesslessons.net July 17, 2011 May 7, 2014
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Chess Strategy - 3 views

  • To be a good chess player, the basic requirement is to understand the importance of chess strategy. The game of chess is not just about moving a single piece on the board. It is the development of position of strength on the board by the combined placement of all the pieces. Each and every move has to be evaluated to get an edge over the opponent and to check mate his King.
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      Famous Chess Players Paraphrase www.chessbeast.com 2013 May 7, 2014 Paraphrase Chess strategy is key in this game of chance. One move cannot decide the game. Where all of the pieces have developed to is what matters. The king can be checkmated after getting an advantage.
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Famous Players - 3 views

  • During the years 1858-9, he played so much better than his opponents that he was still ranked #1 in the world in 1862, three years after he retired!!!
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      Famous Chess Players Quote www.academicchess.net 2011 May 7, 2014
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History of Chess - 2 views

  • king was called a ferz
  • erz to a queen
  • tabiyas, midgame starting positions to speed up the game
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  • queen was the weakest piece on the board
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  • Chess originated from the two-player Indian war game, Chatarung
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      History of Chess Paraphrase www.uschess.org
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      2014 May 7, 2014 Paraphrase In 600 A.D., there was a game like chess called Chatarung in India. About 400 years later Persian traders brought this game to Europe where it was changed.
  • At the end of the 15th century, the rules underwent a sudden sea change. The queen transformed from the weakest piece on the board to the strongest!
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      History of Chess Quote www.uschess.org 2014 May 7, 2014
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History of Chess - 3 views

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Chess Strategies - 1 views

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Bughouse Rules - 3 views

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