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CHESS AS A LOGIC SPORT
IX.1 Chess- history
Chess is a game of long traditions. Teenage games are unknown; most likely they
are to India, around the 5th-6th centuries AD Explanations of the current
principles developed by the Persians, where it is called - "shah" is after all a
Persian king. Other hypotheses are on the way to China. Phonetically,
"checkmate" is, in Persian, "the king is dead." "" (Individual age), who in the sixth
century, in the "szatrang" game, went to China and Persia where the main game.
After Persia captured by Arabs in the seventh century and later playing in
Arabów; at that time she arrived in Europe, beginning with Spain, Portugal and
Scandinavia. For Russia, the game got through directly from the East, in the XII
century. In the 13th century, the chessboard took on the default look (previously
it was one color). At that time, the first book about the meaning appeared
chessboard: a set of tasks and applications, known under the title "Socius
bonus", developed by Alonzo, king of Castile. At the age of 15, the names and
invariant rules of movement were established, the castling was extended, the
range of the bishop's movements was extended, as well as the queen's (queen's)
pressure, from one movement to the slant, to the opening of various movements
in all directions. In the sixteenth century, pseudo in passing and transformation
of the pions were introduced.
IX.2 Rules for chess
Chess is played on a chessboard, a square board divided into 64 square boxes
(eight by eight) with two alternating colors, similar to the checkers used in
checkers. Regardless of the real color of the fields, the brighter ones are called
"white" (or "light"), while the darker ones are called "black" (or "dark"). The
names of the players and his gaming are also contractual: lighter pieces are
called "white", darker chessmen in turn are called "blacks"; for this reason, the
player using white pieces is called "white", and the player using black coins -
"black". The checkerboard is set so that in the lower left corner of the board
there is a black box (hence the white bottom must be white). Each player has
sixteen pieces:
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