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Abdumalik and her parents opened the Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy in 2014. The academy has grown to have three branches with over 700 students in total. [109] Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov attended the opening of the academy, where he and Abdumalik played a four-game speed chess match. While Karpov won both rapid games, Abdumalik won ...
Todd Bardwick (born 1963) is an American author, chess teacher, and US National Chess Master [1] from Denver, Colorado. He was recognized by the United States Chess Federation with the highest lifetime title for a chess teacher, Professional Chess Coach (Level V), [2] for his lifetime work running the Rocky Mountain Chess Camp through the Denver Chess Academy [3] continuously since 1995.
Nevertheless, as Adly grew older, Ibrahim noticed his talent and directed him towards his chess career. Adly graduated from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport with a degree in Business Administration in 2010. Subsequently, Adly went on to start his own chess Academy, Adly Chess Academy, in Cairo. Adly believed that ...
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.
He is the founder and director of a non profit school; SOM chess academy that has branches in several communities with the aim of uplifting slum children's lives. [16] Katende also launched "The Robert Katende initiative" to inspire, empower and transform the lives of the disadvantaged children.
The Chess Academy of Armenia (Հայաստանի շախմատի ակադեմիա) is a leading education institutions of chess in Armenia. It was founded in 2002 by the initiative of Grandmaster Smbat Lputian and supported by then-Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan. The academy has also organized international and national chess tournaments. [71]
In chess, the fianchetto (English: / ˌ f i ə n ˈ k ɛ t oʊ / or / ˌ f i ə n ˈ tʃ ɛ t oʊ /; [1] Italian: [fjaŋˈketto] "little flank") is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent b- or g-file, the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.