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

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 56