Session 3 - August

Hello Chess Comrades! This week's blog is out here.

Agenda of today's session

1. A Theory Session provided by Mr. Dhanasekhar

2. Friendly Practice Matches with fellow students

3. Completion of a Mate in one move Test

Notes

In today's session we were given an interactive theory session by Mr. Dhanashekar, Secretary of Coimbatore District Chess Association. The lessons taught ranged from basic rules, castling opportunities and conditions, defending, check and moving away from it, robots and chess and more. For a quick review, let's see few of the concepts here.

A. Stalemate

Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the whose turn it is to move is not in chess and has no legal move. Stalemate results in a draw.

Black is under stalemate

B. Twofold Attack

A piece being attacked twice by two different pieces

An example of a two-fold attack

C. Defending

We can defend our pieces by one of the following ways:

1. Capturing

2. Supporting

3. Moving Away

4. Interposing

D. The Profitable Exchange

While exchanging our pieces, we have to maintain a gain in values (or) points of the pieces

Piece values in Chess

E. Robots and Chess

Former World Champion, Garry Kasparov, playing against Deep Blue

Former World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik playing against a chess robot

Strongest Chess Engines as time progresses with ELO

Screenshots of the Activity

As usual, suggestions for the blog and the club are most welcome.

See you all in the next session. Goodbye! Keep Checkmating!

- Signing off,

Chess Club Blogger Team

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