Chess Moves – The Bishop

The Bishop is one of the next most powerful of the chess game pieces – after the Queen and the Rook. The other chess piece at the value of 3 as the Bishop is the Knight which will be covered on a future post.
The Bishop can only move diagonally, which means it wil stay in [...]

Christmas and New Year

I hope you and your families had a greatl holiday season.
The holiday season at our house was hectic but wonderful all the same. There many family get togethers, loads of delicious food, exchanging of gifts and lot of game playing. Game playing, of course, included chess in our family. Iwon a few, I lost a [...]

The Strategy Of It All

It doesn’t matter what kind of chess set you play with, strategy is the name of the game. To have a winning game in chess, chess strategy is of the utmost importance. You can’t go into a chess game with no plan of deployment and attack and expect to be successful.
There are chess strategies for [...]

Variations of Chess – 3D Chess

Here is a variation of chess that I’m not sure I could play. It’s 3D Chess. 3D chess is a chess set comprised of three standard

The Gift of Chess

I know a lot of people who seem to have everything….and every Christmas I struggle with what to buy. I have found that along with sports events tickets, mini trips and service certificates that chess sets make a great gift for the person who has everything.
Depending on the person or family, I think

Chess Tables

With the increasing popularity of the game of chess, chess tables can be found in more and more places. It seems so simple to paint a chess board upon any table. Chess tables, or even giant chess boards (painted on the ground/floor)

Chess Moves – The Queen

The Queen is the most powerful of all the chess game pieces, also making her the most valuable chess piece, other than the King, of course. This is because of her mobility. The Queen can move any number of squares in any direction. Her only limitation is that she cannot jump over pieces.
Because the queen [...]

Variations of Chess – Fischer Random Chess

Back in his day, Bobby Fischer, one of the world’s greatest ever chess players, invented Fischer Random Chess. This is a variant of regular chess where the beginning positions of the pieces are placed at random. This can be played with any standard chess set yet provides more challenge.
Fischer’s idea was to eliminate prepared and [...]

Chess Sets for Namibia

Near the end of October 2009, Bank Windhoek gave over 550 chess sets to the Namibian Chess Federation (NFC). These sets were distributed to about 100 schools in the south of Namibia, by the Namibian Schools Sports Union. In 2008, the NFC, with help from Bank Windhoek distributed 1000 chess sets to schools in the [...]

After School Chess – update

Well, My daughter has now attended three chess classes. She has learned about all the chess pieces, their value and how they move. In class, their first game was a king and pawn game.

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