Chess

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Some chess pieces: (from left to right) white king, black rook, black queen, white pawn, black knight and white bishop.

Chess is an ancient strategy game that some believe to have originated in India. It is played by two individuals on an 8x8 grid. The objective is to maneuver one's pieces so as to trap the opposing king in "checkmate". This book will cover the basic pieces of chess, before going on to some more advanced topics.

The history of chess began in India during the Gupta Empire where its early form in the 6th century was known as chaturanga, which translates as "four divisions of the military" – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry, represented by the pieces that would evolve into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook, respectively. In Sassanid Persia around 600 the name became shatranj and the rules were developed further. Shatranj was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia, with the pieces largely retaining their Persian names. In Spanish "shatranj" was rendered as ajedrez, in Portuguese as xadrez, and in Greek as zatrikion, but in the rest of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian shāh ("king").

[edit] Table of Contents

1. Playing The Game
2. Notating The Game
3. Tactics
4. Tactics Exercises
5. Strategy
6. Basic Openings
7. Sample chess game
8. The Endgame
9. Variants
10. Tournaments
11. Puzzles
12. Optional homework

The Wikibooks opening explorer, which treats the chess openings in much more detail, may be found at Chess Opening Theory.

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