Chess - The Game Of Skill
Keith Londrie


"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind." -
Bobby Fischer.

Chess, the most popular game in the world, has a long history dating back
more than a thousand years. Board games similar Chess have been discovered on ancient Egyptian sculptures. Handwritten manuscript, over a thousand years old, referring to Chess has been found.

Remnants that seem to be chess units have been excavated in Italy, and some
people believe they should be dated at the second century AD. People have
been playing chess with objects on some kind of chess table for centuries,
and the earliest version that has definitely been linked to chess is a game
called Chaturanga, played in India almost 1600 years ago.

Before anything else, the apprentice must learn the name or rather the two
names of each of the squares on the chessboard and must practice recognizing
the squares by their names. Just as the larger army usually has the
advantage in a battle, so in Chess the player on the chess table with extra
forces is more likely than his opponent to win the game.

Albeit much of the fun lies in finding the exceptions to this law, the
notion of material advantage is crucial to any understanding of the logic of
the chess table. The normal protocol at the chess table is that one does not
announce that one is about to checkmate the opponent.

The Great War between the Northern and Southern states of the "United
States" possess a peculiar interest for civil war chess set enthusiasts, not
only because it was a struggle between two sections of people akin to us,
but because of the epic courage with which the weaker party with ill-fed,
ill-clad and ill-equipped troops, for four years sustained the contest with
an opponent not only possessed of immense numerical superiority, but having
the command of the sea, and being able to draw its arms and munitions of war
from all manufactures of Europe.

It is truly amazing the way the civil war ragged on for four years and
ended with the obvious victor!

Luck has no part in the game of chess. Now, your apponent can "niss" an
important move, but that is a lack of skill rather than chance. The game
takes concentration and strategy in order to be the victor of the game.

Each peice of the board can move in only certain directions and
combinations, making the element of skill necessary to win to be that much
greater. I have personally played chess many times and find that my skill
level needs improvement. The best ways to improve your skill of the game is
to practice and study books that teach different methods of playing in order
to win the game.

Keith Londrie II is a successful Webmaster and the publisher of
www.about-chess.info A website that specializes in providing information
concerning chess. You can research chess in your pajamas from the comfort of your own home. Visit http://www.about-chess.info/  Today


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