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Computer Chess Game: Leisure to Everyone

Dec 26

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After waking up from our slumber, probably we are preparing ourselves to the whole day activities. As expected, we probably conclude that everyday living is too tiresome for we are running various commitments, tasks, and even indoors and out door chores. At the end of the day, we are looking for a leisure or means of fun just to relief our pains; physically or mentally. But of course we must choose a leisure which really gives fun, adventure, and thrill but not exerting too much force or energy.

One of the most effective and convenient leisure is playing chess. Playing chess do not just give fun to us but rather it enhances our ability and capabilities to think for a tactics to oppose the opponent.

Because of technology, playing chess made convenient and more efficient. Computer chess is one of kind of leisure that surely gives satisfaction and excitement. In this case, you are not opposing to a human opponent but rather to a computer machine—it’s so terrific! Knowing how to play this game is a pleasure for this game played by billions of people around the world. Knowing the different tactics or techniques in computer chess can definitely made you a chess master. By this, if your friends ask you to help him how to play it, you will probably give them a guide to computer chess.

Same as in a usual chess board game, the main objective of computer chess is to defeat your opponent by checkmating its king. Obviously, you are opposing to computer machine which is more difficult compare to human so, you must plan for an effective chess opening. Every single piece of computer chess has its own tasks but all of this is necessary to checkmate the opponent’s king. As usual, both the human player and the computer machine have sixteen pieces embedded in a two different colors but usually it is black or white. In playing, the most important thing that one must store in mind is to have a good tactics in order to win in the game. Never attempt to give up or take it very serious because take note it’s just a game—-there’s always a winner and a looser. Compare to usual chess game, this is more relaxing and convenient because you are dealing to a computer whereby, your attention will not just stick to one like playing only but you can explore to other sections of the computer.

This game is said to be one of the easiest games if and only you know very well how to play it. In playing computer chess game, we can assume that this is similar to our everyday life. We are continuously fighting and there are people around us who are willing to sacrifice themselves for you to be successful in life but the most important thing is do is to not put their sacrifices into vain. Doing our best to beat the odds or our opponent is a big accomplishment!

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Requirements of a good chess player

Dec 7

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Chess is a game that can be learnt easily in less than a couple of hours by any person like you, but to become a good chess player, either you should have innate qualities of a commander-in-chief of an army or develop such traits in you.

What is the relation between a commander-in-chief of an army and a chess player? The chess player knows a lot of chess strategies.

Well. Both do the same kind of thing – only the area of operation is what makes the difference. A commander-in-chief of an army that wages a battle or war with another country shows his deft-handling and capability in the war-front or battlefield.

On the other hand, the chess player needs to display the same tactics and courage on the chessboard – a square board comprising of 64 squares in alternate colors of black and white.

Let me explain the concept with more clarity. In an ancient book that describes the art of war, the requirement of a commander-in-chief of the army has been described as follows:

The commander of an army must possess not less a profound acquaintance with the general principles which regulate the conduct of a long and tedious campaign, than with those that are called into requisition in actual conflict. He must be able equally to arrange the plan of preliminary operations – to act at once and with decision in cases of the most pressing emergency, and on the occurrence of the most unforeseen events – to judge of the importance of a position and of the strength of an entrenchment – to discover from the slightest indications the design of the enemy, while his own are impenetrable – and at the same time to preside with unshaken self-possession over the tumult of the battle-field, and the raging fury of an assault.

Now, try to imbibe these qualities, at least in part, into those of a chess player and see for yourself how the two are entwined or related.

If you want to be a good chess player, you should be very conversant with the basic rules of the game, the real, relative and positional merits of each and every piece in the board and the unique nature or movement of the pieces and their utility in the control over the board. As a chess player, you should lay down the ground for preparing an attack in the form of occupying strategic positions and important squares. You should be alert enough to find mistakes or loopholes in opponent’s positions and be prepared to launch an attack on such a mistake. You should also ensure that there are no loopholes or mistakes in your game or arrangement of your pieces and they stand impenetrable.

This comparison of war with the game of chess makes you realize the fascination of this noble game and I, for one, believe that this challenge and fascination might be the one reason that is responsible for the game to survive the travails of time and technology. Chess is being played for more than 1400 years now in this world and is spread across the world.

With technology, the game of chess has been made more exciting and fascinating with a lot of study material, collection of old games and lot more, through the means of computer and the Internet. That is not enough. Now, you can play the game of chess with the computer or with any player who is not physically in front of you across the board but in the virtual room in an online chess site at the time and place you decide. Online chess is the new kid in the block that is taking the game to the masses and enriching the quality of life of the passionate chess player in you.

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