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Chess. The rules of chess. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Some of my games are symmetric, others of them are not. Not all of them are bad, not all of them are superb. I like some symmetric and some non-symmetric games, but symmetry is not of a particular importance in my evaluation and feeling of the game; the main factor, for me, is the beauty of the game play, and for it, I have to play the game a few times to feel it. I have not played any of your games in the symmetrical collection, and for this reason I can not give an opinion yet, but in every case, my opinion should be only one opinion, as valious or not as yours. The important thing is that some people can enjoy a game in some moment, and people can enjoy a game by many factors, if there is some people which love a game because the game has a particular characteristic, it is normal, but it is also normal that the main attractive of the game is not a particular characteristic but the art seen in the game play, or more simple, a preference which can´t be described with this kind of simplicities as symmetry. I like Escher, but I like Picasso too.
Roberto, would you please repost your last comment to the relevant page?
Does anyone have any quantitative information about the advantage White has over Black? The kind of thing I'd like to know is: supposing two experienced, average rated players, with equal ratings, play many games against each other until 100 games have ended decisively (not in draws), how many should we expect to have been won by White? Is it 55-45, or 60-40, or what? Supposing our pair of equal players were more skilled than average, does that make it closer or farther to 50-50? Another thing that would be of interest: supposing we experiment with matching many pairs of unequally-rated players, with the stronger player playing Black, until we find pairs in which the White-win, Black-win ratio is 50-50: will we find any consistency in the number of rating points that separate the two players? Does playing White worth 20 points to your rating? 40 points? 100 points??
Mark: I would guess that 16 games between two evenly matched grandmasters usually results in 9 points for White and 7 points for Black. That would represent a 50 point rating advantage, under the former Canadian system. In the New York 1924 Tournament the players with the White pieces scored 28-27 in the first half and 33-22 in the second half. White's total score for this 11 player double round robin was 61 out of 110, or 55.45 percent.
The statistics button in Chessbase 8.0 informs me that White scored +123, =137, -71 in the 331 games played in 17 world chess championship matches from 1886 to 1937. That is 57.85 percent for White. I count 536 games played from the 1948 tournament to Kramnik - Leko (2004), leaving out all the FIDE events after Short and Kasparov left. White scored +140, =325, -71 or 56.44 percent. Draws are getting more common at the highest level - but that is another topic.
I have read somewhere about a test in which, using a very strong program, the typical result was a draw (around 73% of the time), and in decisive games, the average was around 58-42, in favour of White.
tritres wrote on Sat, Mar 5, 2005 05:38 PM UTC:Poor ★it is not very clear and why isn't there more colour?
would like to see more annimation but overall great.
easy game why dont you make it harder
There is a small inconsistency in the castling rules: in the third diagram, which is supposed to show that castling is not allowed when the king is in check, the (white) king is on D1, which cannot be its (his) original square, of course. This may be confusing for newcomers.
Ideal introduction to beginners without scaring them off at the start itself. I used it to explain Chess to my little kid who is only 5 years old. He quickly picked up the moves.
Thank you Hans.
You could have added more detail to the games and what like to see animation but overall it was good
Once a king has been castled, may it still take other pieces?
Yes, Joe. After a King has performed a castling move, it may make moves and captures on subsequent turns. It may not make a capture during the castling move itself.
Anonymous wrote on Mon, Apr 25, 2005 04:57 PM UTC:Poor ★it was really boring and i couldnt be bothered to read most of it. make it better per-lease!
very helpful page. I found exactly what I was looking for: a clear, concise explanation of en passant capture.
Verry helpfull but pictures could have been a bit clearer.
awesome details and the illustrations help alot.
I thought it was so boring it made me look like this -_-(sleepy look)
For those who think it was boring, I feel sorry for you. The page is very informative and I am sure it will provide my son wil many hours of fun as he really enjoys the stratigy that chess demands. He is 9 years old and is receiving his first glass chess set, he enjoys the game that much. The directions were for me by the way (so we can play together).
this is very usefull i feel thanks to yahoo
My brothers go to chess class and they know alot of chess tricks i don't know. But i just found a trick they don't know!!!!!!!!!!
Great information told ! Although I think maybe you could add more tricks...
Good, using this for my class project, if you felt this was boring, why would you continue to search.
I'm trying to ask a question. If I am in check by my opponent and I can't move my king to safety or protect it, but I make a single move elsewhere on the board and checkmate my opponent, is it then a draw? Does the rule prohibit my move because it doesn't move my King out of check? Since my move means that both Kings are checkmated, under the rules, no one can move at this point? johnberlin@erols.com
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