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Chess board - history, pictures and description - Chess portal Chessknigi.
ru Only not just a board, but a chessboard. On it you will find 64 square cells. The chessboard is not very large in size, square, its side is about 50 cm. Often, for convenience, the boards are folded in half and, until the next battle, they turn into a box for storing chess kings, queens, rooks and other pieces. The clubs have special chess tables, which depict a chessboard. How many squares are on the chessboard
Let's take a serious look at the chessboard where the chess pieces have to fight. When she was born, what she looked like before. How many cells did it have at different times? Naturally, in order for chess pieces to meet in a fair fight, they needed a battlefield. What it should be, chess players from different countries could not decide for a long time.
Chessboards for battle were very small, and huge, and triangular, and even hexagonal. Often pieces stepped into battle even from extensions to the board.
The famous eastern commander Shah Timur was not satisfied with the usual 8 by 8 squares board, and he offered to fight on a large board: 16 by 16 squares.
Naturally, the usual set of figures was not enough for him.
Camels, advisers, carts, and other characters unusual for chess appeared there. The playing chessboard of the Eastern peoples was most often white with simple markings. Such boards were made of wood or stone.
Demonstration chessboard
If you are seriously interested in chess, want to learn how to play chess and come to a chess club, the coach will conduct the lesson on a demonstration chess board. This is the largest of the chessboards.
They make it so big so that from the very last desk you can clearly see what the coach explains.
A demonstration board is made of tin and painted in two colors. Magnets are glued to flat chess pieces so that the pieces do not fall, but hold, as the demonstration chess board stands or hangs vertically.
Demonstration chessboards are sometimes huge and can be hung in large halls or on the walls of houses.
This is often done when there are matches for the World Chess Championship.
There are so many spectators that the playing hall cannot accommodate all comers and chess lovers.
Chess pieces on demonstration boards are moved by demonstrators with long poles. And all spectators will immediately know how the game of chess players is going, fighting for the title of world chess champion.
The field of the chessboard and its colors
In Europe and Russia, chessboards began to improve almost immediately after their appearance. First, the future “black” fields were decorated with an ornament or diagonal lines, and then the board was completely painted in two colors. Historians learned about this from old chess books. They were often helped by archaeologists, who found unique chessboards during excavations. Of course, it's nice to find a beautiful board with golden and silver cages while digging up rich palaces.
But one day, chess historians were delighted with a discovery made during archaeological work in the Moscow Kremlin.
Archaeologists have found a white stone slab with jagged horizontal lines. "Black" cells had diagonal shading. Of course, it was a chessboard! The masters who built the Kremlin, during their rest, hastily built a device for their favorite chess game from a piece of soft white stone and spent every free minute with benefit. When the work in the Kremlin was over, the craftsmen built a stone chessboard into the wall. And so she lived to this day!
The chessboards were painted in all sorts of colors! Often it was blue and red, yellow-green, all the colors of the rainbow, and the rich, of course, modestly preferred gold and silver. How is the chessboard colored now? The main colors are yellow and brown. Although they are called black and white. This is done on purpose so that the pieces do not merge with the cells of the chessboard. For convenience, Latin letters are written along the edges of the board from left to right, and numbers from bottom to top.
This is done to make it easier to find the right field.
While there were no letters and numbers, and there was no chess notation with notebooks, chess players communicated something like this: “Come with your knight to this white field; Yes, not there, but to the right of the bishop, but not this one, but that black one ”- or“ Beat the pawn! Who did you beat? I thought you would realize that you need to beat the rook! With the advent of letters and numbers, communication became simpler: "Take the bishop on a3 and put it on e5." How to find the right chess field using these addresses, you can find out in a chess textbook.
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On the Internet you will find many photos and pictures of chessboards. On our site, you will see the most beautiful pictures of chess boards, drawn by talented artists on the advice of famous chess players.
Chessboard - history
Can you answer this question. What other boards are there? Let's remember together where you met them yet. Most often you see a blackboard.
In the classroom, the teacher writes assignments on it, but at breaks, if the chalk is not removed, the board is at your complete disposal.
That you just don't draw or write on it. Mom irons clothes on the ironing board at home, and cuts vegetables and fish on a cutting board. In the village of my grandmother, the floor is covered with long wooden boards, but if it is necessary to wash clothes, the grandmother takes out a washboard.
The carpenter makes beautiful boards, from which chessboards can also be made.
Even fountains are made in the form of chessboards.
There is a famous chess slide among hundreds of fountains in Petrodvorets. Probably, once in a hot summer, the royal people first played chess, and then bathed in jets of water.
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In this article, we will analyze how to correctly place chess pieces on the board, and also discuss the features and value of each piece.
The chessboard consists of 64 squares: 32 of them are white and 32 are black. At the beginning of the game, each player has at his disposal his army - a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks and eight pawns. The player with white places his pieces on the first and second rows of the board, while the player with black places them on the seventh and eighth rows.
The diagram below shows the correct placement of chess pieces on the board at the beginning of the game.
How to arrange chess on the board
In the corner of the army (on squares a1 and h2 for White, a8 and h8 for Black) there are watchtowers - rooks. In Russian, the word "rook" is associated with the word "boat" and means a warship. But in the eastern countries, the rook was called "rook" by the name of the bird of prey (by the way, in English the rook is still called rook ).
The image of the boat on the diagrams looks like a tower with a fortress wall ♖.
To the side of the rooks is a chess zoo with horses and elephants. The knights at the beginning of the game are on the adjacent square with the rooks (b1 and g1 for White, b8 and g8 for Black). The chess horse cannot be confused with anyone - its image is really very similar to a horse: ♘. In English, a horse is denoted by the word knight , which translates as "knight". Indeed, earlier this figure was often depicted as a knight sitting on a horse.
Next to the knights, closer to the center of the first and eighth ranks (c1 and f1 for White, c8 and f8 for Black), chess bishops live. Chess was invented in India, so it is not surprising that one of the pieces got such a name - elephants in India are sacred animals that calmly walk the streets of Indian cities. In the first chess, like a horse, this piece looked like a rider sitting on an elephant.
When the game came to Europe, only one horseman remained from the elephant - the modern chess elephant has neither a trunk nor ears, but the name “elephant” has traditionally remained. In Rus', an elephant is often called an “officer”, and indeed, a cross similar to an order is usually drawn near the image of an elephant on diagrams: ♗. But in fact, this cross is associated with the English language: in English-speaking countries, the elephant is called bishop which translates to "priest". Bishops have a particularly important place in the initial arrangement of chess on the board - they stand next to the king and queen (queen).
And finally, in the very center of the chess army there are the main pieces - the king and the queen. The king is the most important piece in chess, depicted as the crown of the monarch ♔. The queen is the most powerful piece, the main adviser to the king. Until now, the queen is often called the queen in our country - it is depicted in the form of an elegant female crown ♕.
And in English this figure is called queen - "queen". Beginning chess players sometimes confuse where the king is on the chessboard and where the queen is. But it is not difficult to remember: the king concedes to the queen a square of his color. That is, the white queen at the beginning of the game is on a white square (d1), and the black queen is on a black square (d8). And the kings are left with the squares e1 and e8.
So, all the chess pieces are placed in the right order on the first and eighth horizontal. And in front of each piece at the beginning of the game there is a small soldier - a pawn. Each player at the beginning of the game has as many as eight pawns, but each of them, if it reaches the end of the board, can turn into any piece. Of course, usually the pawn is promoted to the strongest piece.
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Strength and value of chess pieces
A pawn is considered a unit of chess strength.
A pawn is followed by a knight and a bishop - their strength is estimated at three pawns. Between themselves, a knight and an elephant are considered approximately equivalent: they have very different moves, but each has its own advantages. The bishop is stronger in open positions, as it can control all the squares on the diagonal at once. The bishop knows how to set up such tricks as a pin, an open check, an x-ray, and also often helps the queen in a mating attack. The knight, on the other hand, is very useful in closed positions, maneuvers excellently and jumps over obstacles, knows how to put a fork and a stale checkmate.
The next most powerful piece is the rook. A rook is worth five pawns. This means that the rook is stronger than the knight and bishop, but the knight and bishop together will cost a little more than one rook.
The rook, like the bishop, is a long-range piece that can control all the squares on the line, but its advantage is that the rook can take control of any square of an empty chessboard in one move, while the bishop can only attack squares of the same color. A rook with the help of a king can checkmate a lone opponent's king (and one knight or one bishop cannot). And two rooks can checkmate the enemy king even without the help of their own king (this is called a line checkmate).
And finally, the most powerful chess piece is the queen. The strength of the queen is 9 pawns. The queen knows how to move like a bishop and a rook at once, knows how to perform all tactical tricks (except for a fork), controls the maximum number of squares on the board in one move, and can attack many pieces at once. Most often, it is the queen that checkmates the opponent's king. In value, one queen is slightly stronger than a rook and a bishop or knight, but slightly weaker than two rooks.
