Reflection

Doing this blog web site has answered a lot of my questions by just doing research. I 'v learned a lot from this project I have learned about two great great chess players Bobby Fischer, and Viswanathan Anand. Bobby was born in the United States Chicago, Illinois to be exact raised in Brooklyn, New York. Anand was born in India raised in India. They both did great things when it came to chess. I also learned about different ways to play chess like Shogi where you don’t have queens you have silver generals and gold generals. I learned a lot of different things about this very exciting board game.

History

Shogi is the same thing as Chinese’s (Western Chess), and Korean (Janggi). It’s a two player board game. Shogi means General’s Board game it is also known as Japanese Chess. Shogi Originated from China in the early 4th centuries BC. In these days we use sixteen pieces on each side. We use eight pawns, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, one queen, and one king. But in Shogi there are twenty pieces so there are nine pawns, two lances, two knights, two silver generals two gold generals, one bishop, one rook, one king. They move there pawns the same way we do they can only move one space at a time but it can move two spaces on their first move and can only attack the opponents pieces diagonally. The Lance can only move forward in free spaces. It cannot move backward or to the sides. The knights still move in three square L shapes. The silver general can move one square diagonally or one square directly forward. The gold general can move one square anywhere around it with the acceptation of diagonal backwards. The Bishop still can move diagonal forward and backwards. The rook still moves in a straight line forward, backwards, and to the sides. The King Still can only move one space in any direction. The object of the game is still to protect your king and trap your opponent’s king. They have a rule called promotion if you get in your opponents three square radius you can promote your rook or your bishop. The Rook will promote to a (dragon king) and it can move as a rook or a king but not both in the same move. The bishop promotes to a (dragon horse) and can move like a bishop or a king but not in the same move.

http://www.chessvariants.com/shogi.html

Current Events

The great life of Viswanathan Anand (1969- ). Viswanathan Anand was born in December 11, 1969. Anand is known as a speed player because he often makes very accurate moves quickly. His quick playing has made him the leader in rapid chess. He played games at blitz speed, earning him the nickname "Lightning Kid". At the age of sixteen he became the National Champion and won that title two more times. In 1987, he became the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship. In 1988, at the age of eighteen, he became India's First Grandmaster. Anand has won the Chess Oscar in 1997, 1998, 2003, and 2004. His four Oscars ties him with Kasparov for the most ever, one better than Fischer's three. Anand is greatly looked up to for his many awards and achievements.
Important Matches: 1995: Lost to Garry Kasparov in Classical World Championship match. 2000: Defeated Alexei Shirov to become FIDE World Champion. 2005: Tied for second with in FIDE World Championship Tournament (won by Veselin Topalov). 2007: Won World Championship Tournament to become Classical World Champion. 2008: Defeated Vladimir Kramnik to retain World Championship.

Chess title:
· 1983 National Sub-Junior Chess Champion - age 14
· 1984 International Master - age 15
· 1985 Indian National Champion - age 16
· 1987 World Junior Chess Champion, Grandmaster
· 2000 FIDE World Chess Champion
· 2003 FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion

Notable Accomplishments:
· Five-time winner of the Chess Oscar
· World Junior Champion (1987)
· Won or shared first place at Wijk aan Zee 5 times
· Won or shared first place at Linares 3 times
· Won or shared first place at Dortmund 3 times
· Won or shared first place at Monaco Amber Medley 5 times
· Won FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship (2003)

http://chess.about.com/od/famouschessplayers/p/Anand.htm

The Life of Bobby Fischer

Bobby Fischer was born in Chicago and was raised in Brooklyn New York. Bobby became famous as a teenager after Bobby defeated Soviet Union champion Boris Spassky in chess in 1972 during the cold war. Bobby Fischer was the first and the only American to win a World Chess Championship. But He was the eleventh person to win a World Chess Championship. He lost his world chess crown 1975 after refusing to play his Soviet rival Anatoly Karpov. While living in the Soviet Union he lived in numerous places like Japan, Germany, Hungary, and the Philippines. In 2004-2005 his U.S. passport was revoked so the Japanese police had him in custody for nine months before he was released to Iceland. He officially made his self an Icelanders in 2005 so he wouldn't be deported back to the United States. He died in Iceland in 2009. These are some of Bobby’s most famous quotes.

• “Chess is life”


• "All I want to do, ever, is just play chess"


• "I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves”


• “You can only get good at chess if you love the game”


• "Chess demands total concentration and a love for the game."


• "I give 98 percent of my mental energy to chess. Others give only 2 percent."


• "Your body has to be in top condition. Your chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind."


• "I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident."


• "Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact."


• "People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years."
  
• "It’s just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something."
  
  

http://www.bobby-fischer.net//

Credible and Non-Credible

http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/intro.html

This website can be ethier one:

• It can be credible because it has .edu
• It can be non-credible because it doesn't have a author
• It can be non-credible because it dosen't have foot notes
  
  http://www.uschess.org/

This website is credible:

• It has an Author
• It has Footnotes
• It has Avertising
  
  
  http://www.chess.cornell.edu/
  
  
  

This website is credible:

• It has an Author
• It is a .edu website
• It has Avertising
  

http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

This website is non-credible:

• It says .org
• It doesn't have any avertising
• It doesn't have a author

Personal Reflection

Question # 1
- Why did you pick this topic?
Answer # 1
- I picked this topic because of the reason that I play chess and I wanted to to know more about it. Like who invented the game and different kinds of strategies for this game.

Question # 2
- What do you like about chess?
Answer # 2
- I like the game mostly for the fact that you cant just move any where you have to think like three steps ahead every move you make. You have to think like "if i move there and my oppenet moves here i could blaa blaa blaa or if they move there then i could move here. It all about what you think will happen and what to do about what already happend.

Question # 3
- How did you learn?
Answer # 3
- I got taught this game by my 6th grade teacher "Mr. Sajod" I apoligize if the spelling of his name is incorrect but he taught or whole class how to play because he said it will teach you to think before you do. And I took that because I have a habit of doing before really thinking.

Question # 4
- When was your first victory?
Answer # 4
- My first victory was against a boy in my 6th grade class by the name of Rickey Pace it was exciting becaus ehe bet me the first time we played. So I felt very very happy that i bet some one I thought had an advantage over me.

Question # 5
- What is your stratigey?
Answer #5
- My stratigey is to keep the king in the place it starts off in that way I can just trap him aroung his own pieces.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT CHESS?

I know that Chess is a strategy game. I know all the rules to this game. I know that the pawns either move up one space or two spaces and can only attack to the diagnal. I know that the knight moves in an "L" shape in a three square movement. I know that the rook olny can move up as many spaces as it can go and to the side as many spaces as it can go. The bishop can only move diagnal on the color that it is on. The queen can move the same way as the rook and the bishop, but not as the knight. The king can only move one space at a time in any direction.

I know there are 64 squares on the chess board. The queen is the most powerful piece on the board from what I understand. There are 32 pieces on the board, 16 black and 16 white. There are eight pawns, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, one king and one queen on both sides. The last two things that I know is that the reason of the game is to protect your king and to trap your oponents king.

Questions about Chess

1.) Where was it invented?
2.) Who inventeed it?
3.) Were the pieces always the same?

Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess