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Attack Back Rank Back Rank Check an attack on the King
Checkmate Endgame Fifty-Move Rule Piece Promote
Stalemate Touch Move En Passant Castling
1. the rule that says if you touch a piece you have to move it. If you let go of a piec e
you have to leave it there, and if you
2. when the player to move isn’t in check, but none of his pieces can move. This is a
type of draw - but not all draws are stalemates.
3. when a pawn reaches the other side of the board, the 8th rank, it can promote to
a Queen, Rook, Bishop, or Knight on the promoting square.
4. any of the chessmen; a set of chess pieces. Sometimes non-pawns only, "pieces
and pawns".
5. a type of draw where both players make 50 moves consecutively without either
player advancing a pawn or making a capture.
6. the part of the game where the King should come out and fight (with fewer pieces
left on the board). The ending phase of chess.
7. an attack on the King where there is no way for your opponent to finish his turn
and no longer have the King attacked. To be checkmated.
8. n attack on the King. You do not have to announce “check”.
9. to remove a piece from the board via a legal move.
10. the rank where a player sets up his major pieces (1st for White; 8th for Bla
an attack on the King where there is no way for your opponent to finish his turn
and no longer have the King attacked. To be checkmated.
11. is when you move a piece to a square where you could capture an opponent’s
piece NEXT move.
12.is a move in chess. It is a special pawn capture that can only occur immediately
after a pawn makes a move of two squares from its starting square, and it could
have been captured by an enemy pawn had it advanced only one square.
13.may be done only if the king has never moved, the rook involved has never
moved, the squares between the king and the rook involved are unoccupied, the
king is not in check, and the king does not cross over or end on a square attacked
by an enemy piece.
The chessboard is made up of eight rows and eight columns for a total of 64 squares of
alternating colors. Each square of the chessboard is identified with a unique pair of a
letter and a number. The vertical files are labeled a through h, from White´s left (i.e. the
queenside) to White´s right. Similarly, the horizontal ranks are numbered from 1 to 8,
starting from the one nearest White´s side of the board. Each square of the board, then,
is uniquely identified by its file letter and rank number. In the initial position setup, the
light queen is positioned on a light square and the dark queen is situated on a dark
square. The diagram below shows how the pieces should be initially situated.
Are the pieces situated in the position? If not arrange them.
WHAT IS THE MISSING WORD :
The history of chess spans. _______.
The earliest predecessor of the game probably originated
in India, before the__________.
From India the game spread to_______, Arab and
southern Europe .
In Europe chess evolved roughly its current form in
________.
In the second half of the ________Modern chess
tournament play began.
And the first World Chess Championship was held
in_____ .
The ___ century saw great leaps forward in chess theory
and the establishment of the World Chess Federation
(FIDE).
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Its early form in the 6 century was known as “________”,
which translates as four divisions (of the military): infantry
cavalry, elephantry, and chariotry.
These forms are represented by the _______that would
evolved into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook
respectively .
The game chaturanga was a battle simulation game which
rendered ________military strategy of time.
__________was used by Indian tool for military strategy,
mathematics etc.
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DESCRIBE THE PIECES OF CHESS AND MOVEMENTS
1.__________________________
2.__________________________
3._______________________________
4._________________________________
5.__________________________________
6.____________________________________
7.____________________________________
8._________________________________
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