Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 56

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Students were able to plan a strategy, to see the
game from the opponent's point of view, to make a
right self-evaluation, to respect rules and
opponents, to evaluate the possible consequences
of their actions, to learn from their mistakes, to
calculate possibilities.
First phase: ice breaking between teachers via chat
and video conferences (November). Second phase:
meeting pupils from other schools in video
conference (December-January) and playing
friendly matches just to warm up. Third phase:
international online tournament, using the lychees
platform.
History of Chess
The origin of chess is something that is debated and
there is not really a consensus on its origin or even
the history of chess, from the old to the present.
Some say that versions of chess and its board date
back from Ancient Egypt or Dynastic China, but its
most supported origin is that it first appeared in
India around the 6th century, at that time it would
have the name of Chaturanga.
Over time, it eventually reached Persia and its
name in time changed, being now called Xatranje,
probably having other rules as well.
It ultimately spread throughout Europe slowly and it
took about 500 years for Xatranje to begin to look
more like the chess we know today.
In the year 1475 it began to be consolidated with
the current rules, and its name also finally changed
to chess, but it still took a few hundred years for
Europe to play with the most modern pieces and
rules as well.
We created a public TwinSpace, where we published
images, video clips, presentations and files in
general, as tangible results of our work. Teachers
and chess clubs kept in contact via the TwinSpace.
As this project was the natural continuation of last
year’s project "International Chess Challenge”, we
tracked the coordinator's suggestions by posting
some of the materials made on the TwinSpace,
photos from activities and links to online gaming
with children to develop our gaming skills.
For students, it was interesting to know the history
of chess, both scientifically and in the form of a
story, concert, movie, games.
In the middle of the 19th century tournaments and
chess competitions began to appear, thus giving
rise to a sport that was always dominated by the
same players and had World champions who
maintained their reign for long periods, 20 or 30
years for example.
A funny story about chess
Some time before the empire age, there was this
king who had conquered the world. One day, he
had a festival in his huge palace. All the kings below
him arrived along with a lot of wealthy people.
A poor looking prince arrived with a present called
"Chess". The king loved this amazing game. He said
he would give the poor prince something he
deserved. The prince pointed to the chess board
and said:" I would like to have 1 grain on the first
square of the board, then at the second square, I
would want 2, on the third square, I want 4, on the
4th square I would want 8 and so on." The king
thought it was a small price to pay for such a great
game.
He ordered the mathematicians to calculate how
much grains will cost him at the 64th square which
is the last square on the chess board. At the last
square, it will cost him 9,223,372,036,854,780,000
grains. And a total of 18,446,744,073,709,600,000
grains.
A week after the festival the king realized he was
bankrupted.
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