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With only 14 years old, Wei Yi is one of the most talented chess players in the world and a real threat for Magnus Carlsen in the following years. Recently, he played an amazing game.

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Good Morning!
Always be Happy always wear a smile.. Not because life is full of reasons to smile but because your smile itself is a reason for many others to smile.
Have a nice day!

Here is FIDE grand master Natalia and Zhu Chen
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Chess, a easy going friend, whatever your age, whoever you are, whenever you go, you always can have the friend with you...
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]589274[/ATTACH]Always be willing to share your positive outlook with others. Sometimes a smile or comment of encouragement is all someone needs to turn their day around. Positive people are a gift to the world! Share your good energy with others and feel good about making a positive difference! ~kim

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3 rules to become a hard to beat chess player

General rule #1

Do not play the moves just because you can, it’s not the point of chess to make moves. Making some moves is easy, making good moves is difficult and making the best moves is almost impossible.  Before making a move, think what problems would this move impose on your opponent?  The best move is the one that does multiple things at once, such as develops your own pieces, threatens to win some material and prevents your opponent from any dangerous actions. Good move is the one that forces your opponent to play something he does not want to play. If the move you play does not create any threats and does not make your opponent’s life harder, it’s most likely not a good move.  Look for a better one.

Remember, the point of making moves at chess is to create problems for your opponent! The more problems you create for your opponent the safer your own King will be.

General Rule #2

Do not exchange pieces just because you can. Before making any exchanges or trading material think how would you benefit from it. You probably know that exchanging a Knight for a Queen is usually a good deal (of course if you not getting mated next move, aka sacrifice). What if you need to decide which piece is better in current position knight or bishop or even your knight or opponent’s knight? Here things are a little bit more ambiguous than 9 vs. 3 points like in Queen vs. Knight example.  As a general rule you should compare the Bishop vs. Knight by the amount of open space available on the board, meaning the more open the position is the stronger the Bishop and weaker the Knight is. It works backwards as well, meaning less open space makes a Knight stronger and a Bishop weaker.

What if you need to compare two Bishops? The more active piece is usually better than a less active piece. If your Bishop is active you should not exchange it for passive bishop or knight of your opponent.  For more precise position analysis information, you may want to review this article.

Strong players do not exchange pieces without any compensation; if they do exchanges they try to get superior pieces over the opponent’s, which suit better for the position on the board.

General Rule #3

You should be especially careful about exchanging pieces when the game is approaching endgame stage.  When exchanging last set of pieces and going into Kings and Pawns endgame make sure that your pawns are not worse than you opponent’s. If the following conditions apply it’s definitely not a favorable time to play the Kings and Pawns endgame:

You opponent has more pawns than you do
Your opponent has passed pawns and can promote it’s pawns before you do
Your opponent’s King is more active
Your opponent’s pawns are more advanced and cannot be approached by your King
Again, these are just general rules and not dogmas. Each rule has exceptions, for example if your opponent’s pawn promotes first but your pawn promotes second but with a check to the opponent’s King, then you are doing okay.

As a general rule, you should remember that if you have a bad position for Kings and Pawns endgame you should avoid any piece exchanges and exchange pawns. By doing so you will have more chances creating problems for your opponent and increasing your chances for a favorable outcome of the game.

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“Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.”

–Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess Grandmaster and former World Champion

Chances are, you’ve heard quite a bit of about the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and gender issues in gaming. But have you ever heard of the gender barriers, gaps and apparent ceiling, in the game of chess?

Chess is one of the oldest known and widely played games in human history, with an origin story stretching back at least 1500 years. Those who know and appreciate the game might be tempted to conclude that a one so perfect at this must have been intelligently designed. However, the modern variant of chess actually evolved from earlier precursors (i.e., chaturanga, shatranj) through a series of successive rule changes. Though comprehensive data is hard to come by, some estimates suggest that upwards of 605 million people worldwide play chess regularly either at home, in parks, online, by mail or email (correspondence), or in clubs and tournaments; and at least 70% of adults have tried to play at least once.

Chess has also become a significant part of human culture in a way very few other games have.  Its imagery has long been common in great art and literature (e.g., Da Vinci’s chess pieces; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; Orwell, 1984; etc.) and today it can be seen in film (particularly in popular sci-fi series such as Star Wars, Star Trek / Star Trek, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, etc.) and television (e.g., The Big Bang Theory). It’s often used as a metaphor or analogy to help understand more complex things like science (as Richard Feynman does so beautifully here) or even life itself.  It’s much more than just a game.

Clearly an intellectual pursuit as opposed to a physical one, chess has long been regarded as a gauge or indicator of intelligence. For example, in 1894, French psychologist Alfred Binet (inventor of the first widely used IQ test) was studying the intersection of chess and mathematics and he concluded that mastery in chess was highly correlated with both visual memory quality and mental calculation ability. Unfortunately for a novice player like me (in chess-speak: a patzer), Binet’s studies and others like it suggest that any correlation between chess playing and intelligence, per se, is tenuous and likely limited to master-level players.

More recent studies show that learning to play chess (much like learning to play a musical instrument or learning a new language) does have a multitude of cognitive, educational and social benefits, even for us non-masters. This, again, is not a new idea. As Benjamin Franklin wrote in “The Morals of Chess” (1750),

The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions… By playing at Chess then, we may learn foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life – that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.
Playing chess involves strategic and tactical, abstract and concrete thinking; it can lead to improvement in mental focus and acuity, ability to plan ahead, ability to quickly and carefully weigh options, etc. Some studies show a correlation with higher grades in both math and English and better scores on psychological tests measuring critical thinking and creativity. For the older crowd, chess may also help to stave off Alzheimer’s and dementia much like other mind-exercising activities such as doing crosswords, playing Sudoku, solving jig-saw puzzles, etc.

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There aren't enough words to describe the talent and energy of Hou Yifan. In the 3rd round of the Women's Fide Grand Prix Series, she won an amazing game against Nana Dzagnidze in 24 moves.

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if you love chess...


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She is he number one in the world, she is a chinese!

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With only 14 years old, Wei Yi is one of the most talented chess players in the world and a real threat for Magnus Carlsen in the following years. Recently, he played an amazing game.

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