chess

Question 1

a boardgame for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king

Answer 1

CHESS

Question 2

chess is a game that has been played for centuries and was thought to have originated in ______ in 15th century

Answer 2

INDIA

Question 3

lon ago, it was considered a game reserved only for ______??

Answer 3

KINGS

Question 4

the modern design of chess plays bears name of ______________?? in _________??

Answer 4

HOWARD STAUNTON, 1851

Question 5

first international chess tournament played in 1851?

Answer 5

LONDON TOURNEY

Question 6

won the game in london tourney tournament, and he is the best player

Answer 6

ADOLF ANDERSON

Question 7

won the game in london tourney tournament, and he is the best player

Answer 7

ADOLF ANDERSON

Question 8

first american born chess player who travelled to europe in the 1850’s where he beats all challenger including ADOLF ANDERSON. Howerver the english champion (staunton) refused to play with him, so morphy never became a world chess champion

Answer 8

PAUL MORPHY

Question 9

a bohemian (crechoslovakian) jew who won the game and became the world’s first official chess champion, holding ghis title until 1894

Answer 9

WILHELM STEINITZ

Question 10

first official championship chess tournament. They used sand clock to restrict the length of time.

Answer 10

LONDON 1866

Question 11

side of the board containing __ squares of alternating colors.

Answer 11

64

Question 12

how many king, queen, bishops, knights, rook, pawns

Answer 12

1king, 1queen, 2 bishop, 2 knights, 2rook, 8pawns

Question 13

the result of a move that places opposing under an immediate threat of capture by one or sometimes two of the opponents pieces

Answer 13

CHECK

Question 14

A move of the king or either rook of the
same color artiong the player’s first row. on a player’s tomi It may move his king two squate over the one side and then move the rook. from the one side then move to the rook from the side’s corner on the square next in the king

Answer 14

CASTLING

Question 15

A situation in which one player’s king is threatened with capture (in check) having no move to avoid that threat. Thus ending the game.

Answer 15

checkmate

Question 16

• A Chess game where nobody ends as a winner

Answer 16

DRAW

Question 17

• A special ability of a powl wherein if it reaches the last row of the other side of the board. It can become any other Chess piece except the king.
  Chess Pieces and their movement

Answer 17

PROMOTION

Question 18

The king is the most important piece. However it is also considered one of the weakest.
The king only moves one square in any divection. Up, down, to the sides, and draganolly.
The king may never move himself into á Check where he could be captured.

Answer 18

KING

Question 19

is the most powerful piece. It moves In any direction forward, backward, Sideways. or diagonal As all other pieces, except the knight, it cannot move over any intervening piece.

Answer 19

QUEEN

Question 20

may move to any square as far as it wants, but only forward, backward, and to the other sides. The ook are particularly powerful pieces when they are protecting each other and working together.

Answer 20

ROOK

Question 21

squares in one direction, and then one more move just like an “L” shape

Answer 21

knights

Question 22

moves forward but capture dragamolly. It can never move backwards. On it’s first. move the pawn can advanced two squons at a time. (f move, 2 sqrs, diagonal kumain)

Answer 22

pawn