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Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Chess is played by millions of people worldwide, both amateurs and professionals.
Each player begins the game with 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each of the six piece types moves differently. The most powerful piece is the queen and the least powerful piece is the pawn. The objective is to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. To this end, a player's pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, while supporting their own. In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by voluntary resignation by the opponent, which typically occurs when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may also result in a draw in several ways.
Chess is believed to have originated in India, some time before the 7th century; the Indian game of chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of xiangqi and shogi. The pieces took on their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the rules were finally standardized in the 19th century.
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (Norwegian: [sʋɛn ˈmɑŋnʉs øːn ˈkɑːɭsn̩]; born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, No. 1 ranked player in the world and reigning World Chess Champion in classical and rapid. His peak rating is 2882, the highest in history.
A chess prodigy, Carlsen became a Grandmaster in 2004, at the age of 13 years, 148 days, making him the third youngest grandmaster in history. On 1 January 2010, at the age of 19 years, 32 days, he became the youngest chess player in history to be ranked world No. 1. In November 2013, Carlsen defeated Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2013, thus becoming the new world chess champion. On the May 2014 FIDE rating list, Carlsen reached his top Elo rating of 2882, the highest in history. He successfully defended his title in November 2014, once again defeating Viswanathan Anand. In 2015, he won the inaugural Grand Chess Tour, a series of three supertournaments featuring the 10 best chess grandmasters in the world.
The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.
The official world championship is generally regarded to have begun in 1886, when the two leading players in Europe and the United States, Johann Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz respectively, played a match. From 1886 to 1946, the champion set the terms, requiring any challenger to raise a sizable stake and defeat the champion in a match in order to become the new world champion. From 1948 to 1993, the championship was administered by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. In 1993, the reigning champion (Garry Kasparov) broke away from FIDE, which led to the creation of the rival PCA championship. The titles were unified at the World Chess Championship 2006.
Current world champion Magnus Carlsen won the World Chess Championship 2013 against Viswanathan Anand and successfully defended his title against Anand in the World Chess Championship 2014.
In addition, there is a separate event for women only, for the title of Women's World Champion, as well as separate competitions and titles for juniors (under 20 years of age), seniors (60+ for men, 50+ for women), and computers. Computers are barred from competing for all titles, except the last one.
Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (Ukrainian: Сергій Олександрович Карякін, Serhiy Oleksandrovych Karjakin; Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Каря́кин; born January 12, 1990) is a Ukrainian-born Russian chess grandmaster. He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for the world's youngest Grandmaster, at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
Karjakin won the 2012 World Rapid Chess Championship and the Chess World Cup 2015. He also won the Norway Chess Tournament twice (2013, 2014) and the Corus Chess Tournament in 2009.
He has competed in six Chess Olympiads, three times for Ukraine and three times for Russia, winning three gold medals, two silver and a bronze. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in Antalya in 2013.
Karjakin was born in Simferopol. He learned to play chess when he was five years old and became an IM at age 11 years and 11 months. In 2001, he won the World Chess U12 championship. He first attracted attention in January 2002, when he was the official second of fellow Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov during the final of the 2002 FIDE World championship, though Karjakin had only just turned 12 at the time. By scoring GM norms at the Aeroflot tournament in Moscow later that month, the Alushta tournament in May 2002 and the international tournament in Sudak in August 2002, he surpassed Bu Xiangzhi to become the youngest grandmaster in the history of chess at the age of 12 years and exactly 7 months—a record that still stands.
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born June 17, 1976, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. He is seven-time Russian Champion (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013). and has represented Russia at the Chess Olympiad ten times (1994-2010, 2014) securing five team gold medals, two team silvers and an individual bronze. Another major success was his victory in the Chess World Cup 2011.
Svidler has competed in three World Championship tournaments—in the period with split title the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and 2005, and after the reunification of the title the World Chess Championship 2007.
Svidler is a fan of cricket, especially of the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. He is also a fan of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.
Svidler learned to play chess when he was six years old. In 1992, he tied for 1st–2nd with Ragim Gasimov in the USSR Junior Open Chess Championship. In 1994 he became Grandmaster and won the under-18 section of the World Youth Chess Championship.
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Plot: Addi & Chess are best mates. However both of them are changing and so is the world around them. Over one day their lives are tested as is the friendship they thought would never change. The film explores an intense bond between two teenage boys set in an area of London which is redefining itself.
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Plot: Fred Williamson stars as Stone, a Los Angeles-area private eye. After a movie star's funeral, the star's signature walking cane disappears. Stone discovers that the cane is somehow connected to a string of murders. Stone's investigation takes him onto a porn movie set and into a religious cult. A major subplot involves Stone's intermittent relationship with a young bisexual woman, and the tension therein.
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Keywords: based-on-novel, hidden-treasure, pirate, south-seas, trucolor, volcano, whippingLive commentary with Grandmasters Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson on Game 9 of the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. Follow the match on https://www.chess24.com/en/wcc2016 ► Become a Premium member to get access to everything chess24 has to offer: http://chess24.com/premium ► Watch live and on-demand shows: https://chess24.com/en/live/video/ ► Follow top tournaments with our state-of-the-art broadcast system: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments ► Play chess in our playzone: https://chess24.com/en/play/chess ► Improve your chess by learning from grandmasters in interactive videos: https://chess24.com/en/learn/videoseries Let’s stay in touch! ► Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/chess24media?sub_con...
Live commentary with Grandmasters Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson on Game 10 of the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. Follow the match on https://www.chess24.com/en/wcc2016 ► Become a Premium member to get access to everything chess24 has to offer: http://chess24.com/premium ► Watch live and on-demand shows: https://chess24.com/en/live/video/ ► Follow top tournaments with our state-of-the-art broadcast system: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments ► Play chess in our playzone: https://chess24.com/en/play/chess ► Improve your chess by learning from grandmasters in interactive videos: https://chess24.com/en/learn/videoseries Let’s stay in touch! ► Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/chess24media?sub_co...
Live commentary with Grandmasters Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson on Game 11 of the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. Follow the match on https://www.chess24.com/en/wcc2016 ► Become a Premium member to get access to everything chess24 has to offer: http://chess24.com/premium ► Watch live and on-demand shows: https://chess24.com/en/live/video/ ► Follow top tournaments with our state-of-the-art broadcast system: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments ► Play chess in our playzone: https://chess24.com/en/play/chess ► Improve your chess by learning from grandmasters in interactive videos: https://chess24.com/en/learn/videoseries Let’s stay in touch! ► Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/chess24media?sub_co...
Live commentary with Grandmasters Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson on Game 12 of the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. Follow the match on https://www.chess24.com/en/wcc2016 ► Become a Premium member to get access to everything chess24 has to offer: http://chess24.com/premium ► Watch live and on-demand shows: https://chess24.com/en/live/video/ ► Follow top tournaments with our state-of-the-art broadcast system: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments ► Play chess in our playzone: https://chess24.com/en/play/chess ► Improve your chess by learning from grandmasters in interactive videos: https://chess24.com/en/learn/videoseries Let’s stay in touch! ► Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/chess24media?sub_co...
Everyone makes mistakes in chess, especially new players just learning the game. Today we look at the top 8 mistakes that players of all skill levels make. #8 Bringing out your queen too early #7 Not controlling the center of the board #6 Not Castling #5 Protect the King #4 Think about opponent's plan #3 Don't move pieces more than once #2 Stalemate #1 Falling for Traps
Please keep in mind, I'm a magician... not a pro Chess Player! While in NYC, I decided to play a few games of chess in Union Square Park and Washington Square. Had a few games against this guy (Snoop G). Watch closely as he tries to use some sleight-of-hand on me!
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Grandmaster jan Gustafsson introduces us to 10-year old IM-elect Praggnanandhaa by looking at his game against Grandmaster Krejci. Prodigy alert! ► Become a Premium member to get access to everything chess24 has to offer: http://chess24.com/premium ► Watch live and on-demand shows: https://chess24.com/en/live/video/ ► Follow top tournaments with our state-of-the-art broadcast system: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments ► Play chess in our playzone: https://chess24.com/en/play/chess ► Improve your chess by learning from grandmasters in interactive videos: https://chess24.com/en/learn/videoseries Let’s stay in touch! ► Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/chess24media?sub_confirmation=1 ► Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/c24live/ ► Follow us...
Everyone loves an aggressive chess opening so I thought I would create a list of my top 7 aggressive openings. Enjoy. #7 Danish Gambit #6 Cochrane Gambit #5 Scotch Gambit #4 King's Gambit #3 Halloween Gambit #2 Latvian Gambit #1 Fried Liver Attack
Pity the Child
>From the Musical Chess
When I was nine I learned survival
Taught myself not to care
I was my single good companion
Taking my comfort there
Up in my room I planned my conquests
On my own, never asked for a helping hand
No one would understand
I never asked the pair who fought below
Just in case they said no
Pity the child who has ambition
Knows what he wants to do
Knows that he'll never fit the system
Others expect him to
Pity the child who knew his parents
Saw their faults, saw their love die before his eyes
Pity the child that wise
He never asked, did I cause your distress?
Just in case they said yes
When I was twelve my father moved out
Left with a whimper not with a shout
I didn't miss him, he made it perfectly clear
I was a fool, and probably queer
Fool that I was, I thought this would bring
Those he had left closer together
She made her move the moment he crawled away
I was the last the woman told
She never let her bed get cold
Someone moved in, I shut my door
Someone to treat her just the same way as before
I took the road of least resistance
I had my game to play
I had the skill, and more - the hunger
Easy to get away
Pity the child with no such weapons
Do defence, no escape from the ties that bind
Always a step behind
I never called to tell her all I'd done
I was only her son
Pity the child but not forever
Not if he stays that way
He can get all he ever wanted
If he's prepared to pay
Pity instead the careless mother
What she missed, what she lost when she let me go
And I wonder, does she know
I wouldn't call, a crazy thing to do