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In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth of chess within the educational community.

The popularity of chess is no accident: in an era of compulsive zapping of TV channels, violent gaming and mobile chatter, learning chess means improving basic skills (like analysis, decision making, strategic thinking, stamina, and dealing with stress) while interacting meaningfully with other pupils. A great job for motivated teachers and coaches.

The Chess Instructor 2009 aims to give answers to all these questions, and more. Michael Basman explains how he puts 70,000 British schoolkids to play, every year, and Simen Agdestein tells about his work with super talent Magnus Carlsen.

This compendium is for chess training at all levels. With a multi-colored mosaic of articles, it aims to raise topics for discussion, and to get chess teachers at local schools to learn from top coaches, as well as the other way around. With ready-to-use teaching exercises for all levels.

Get your Copy of The Chess Instructor 2009: The New in Chess Compendium for Chess Teachers, Coaches and Parents NOW! Before it’s too late.

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An introduction to chess sets

There are almost as many different types and styles of chess sets as there are chess players. It may be hard to decide upon a particular set, but it’s relatively easy to narrow your choices down to a particular category. Here’s a look at the major categories that are available everywhere:

Theme Chess Sets

Travel Chess Sets

 Wood Chess Sets

Glass Chess Sets

No matter what material you choose, there is a chess set that’s right for your taste and budget. Instead of buying a set, consider buying the board, pieces and pawns separately. That way, instead of ending up with a chess set that’s another ‘me too’, you can design one that’s uniquely yours!

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One can have many hours of pleasure to go along with fair intellectual progress, since chess is known to improve analytical thinking, creativeness and judgement. In the past chess was mainly played by courtiers; nowadays everybody may enjoy this privilege. Several well-known personalities were also famous for their chess skills. Napoleon, Nikola Tesla, Charlie Chaplin and Einstein were amongst them.

All you need to start playing chess is the chessboard and the chess pieces (you need absolutely nothing if you wish to play online). Your goal is to trap the enemy King; that simple. The chessboard is a 8×8 board with alternating black and white squares; everybody is sure to have seen one. The chess pieces are 32 in total; 16 white pieces and their 16 black counterparts. One player owns the white pieces (we call this player WHITE) and his opponent (the BLACK) gets the black ones. The 16 pieces are : the King, the Queen, two Rooks, two Bishops, two Knights and eight Pawns.

When the game starts these pieces are placed in their initial positions, which are predefined. This initial arrangement is as follows : each player has his own pieces positioned along the two ranks of the board that are closest to him. All 8 pawns are placed on the innermost rank of the two. The rest of the pieces are placed in the outermost rank in the following order : Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, Rook. This order is from left to right for WHITE and from right to left for BLACK, so that same pieces are opposed on each file of the board.

To facilitate descriptions of chess positions a notation has been invented. It is known as ‘algebraic chess notation’ (there is also the descriptive notation, which is quite obsolete). It is particularly easy to learn and helps us easily identify squares and pieces on the board. It works like this : viewing from WHITE’s perspective, the leftmost file is named ‘a’, the next one is named ‘b’ and so on until we reach the rightmost file, which is file ‘h’. Moreover, the rank that is closest to WHITE is ‘rank 1′, or the first rank. Next comes ‘ rank 2′ (the second rank) and so on until we get to the eighth rank, which is the rank closest to BLACK.

Now that we have appropriately named the ranks and the files we may identify a square by looking up the rank and the file to which it belongs. Thus, still viewing from WHITE’s side, the bottom left square is the square ‘a1′, since it belongs to file a and to the first rank. Its adjacent squares are ‘b1′ on the right and ‘a2′ just above it. So we may repeat the initial position using chess notation : the white pawns are placed on squares a2 through h2, while the black ones are placed on squares a7 through h7; the white rooks are placed on a1 and h1 and the black ones on a8 and h8; the white knights are placed on b1 and g1 and the black ones on b8 and g8; the white bishops are placed on c1 and f1 and the black ones on c8 and f8; the white queen is placed on d1 and the black queen on d8; finally the white king is placed on e1 and the black king on e8. Note that the chessboard should be so placed that the a1 square is black.

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