About Chess
Chess is an ancient board game for two players, with over 100 million active players worldwide. It originated in India (as chaturanga; the most famous is a legend about the origin of chess), and today it is an established game with a wide international organization. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) organizes Chess Olympiad every two years, where members of our club also participate.
Regularly playing chess is an investment in one's mental abilities. Chess encourages thinking and planning, trains memory, strengthens spatial visualization improves the ability to make quick decisions under pressure and constraints, boosts confidence (or, until we grow sufficiently, it can also lower it 😂️) …
Analogies with chess can be found in all aspects of everyday life. Chess teaches a person to think and ultimately shows them what questions need to be asked to get the desired responses.
Life is a game. Chess is a battle.
- Rules of Chess
- Chess Variants
- Fischer Random Chess or Chess 960 is a variant that can be played with a regular chess set. The idea is simply to shuffle the back rank of both players randomly (symmetrically). This way, each game begins with the "midgame" on an entirely new and differently set up chessboard, so players who are only familiar with standard openings don't have as much of an advantage.
"The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature, and the player on the other side is hidden from us." — Thomas Huxley