Chess

Robin BurkeGAM 206

Outlineo A little chess historyo Play

Chess – India o Most likely dates to India around 600

ADo possibly a lost earlier ancestor of both

Chinese and Indian versionso Chaturanga

o The pieces are organized like the Indian army of the timeo king, minister, elephant, horse, chariot,

footsoldiero there was a 4-player version

o Distinguishing characteristicso pieces of differing powero capture by replacemento weakness / centrality of the kingo a game of nobilityo some association with military strategy

Chess – East Asiao Distinct versions of Chess

appears around 800 ADo xiang-qi

o Played on the points of the boardo Includes a special "castle" in

which the king must stayo Other asian variants developed

along these lineso Shogio Changgi

o All of these available in the Game Lab

Chess – Middle Easto Emerges in Persia

o Chatrang

o And then in the Islamic worldo by 640o Shatranjo some of the modern names appearo shah = king

o shah kmat = "the king is dead"o instead of general, vizier

o the sultan's advisero rukh = chariot

o Is well known in Baghdad by the time of the Crusadeso scholars are writing books containing

chess problems

Chess – Europe o First appears in Europe around

900 ADo Quickly becomes popular

o popular enough the Church has to declare it sinful

o later relents

o Italy and Spain were the most important centers of chess scholarshipo Italy closest to the Muslim world

o jumping off point for the Crusades

o Spaino part of the Islamic world up to 1492

Fresco,14th century Italy

Chess – Rules o King: same as modern chesso Fers: (modern queen) 1 square diagonallyo Alfil: (modern bishop) 2 squares diagonally

leaping intervening pieces like the Knight.o Knight: same as modern chesso Rook: same as modern chesso Pawn: one square forward only; capturing

diagonally forwardo Pawns promote to Fers on the back rank.

o No castling. o Checkmate, stalemate or "bared king" are all

wins.o Dice

o 6 = Kingo 5 = Ferso 4 = Alfilo 3 = Knighto 2 = Rooko 1 = Pawn.o Check

o must escapeo Keep rolling until you have a legal move

Groupso Group 1

o Baio,Brian A o Saulsberry,Daniel S o Shusterich,Jeffrey J o Stull,R. Alexander 

o Group 2o Rady,Brad W o Shilander,David Leo o Smythe,Geoffrey R o Wiemeyer,Ryan J 

o Group 3o McNulty,Joseph o Patterson, Georgeo Rothrock, Drewo Salzman,Christopher M 

o Group 4o Hsiao,Matt C o Libman,Jeffrey R o Lubinski,Tommy Stanley o Mammana Lupo,Anthony 

o Group 5o Hoffman,Bryan M o Kelly,Donnell D o Kostelnik,Anthony J o Lazar,Matthew D 

o Group 6o Cao,Shengnan  o Keiser,Steven DC o Koller,Kenneth R o Kolodziejski,Kamil  

o Group 7o Allen,John M o Alongi,Anthony J o Bodenburg, Sklyero Guida,Nicholas T