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2. Here's how to beef up your chess skills online - AOL

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   A handful of international and grandmasters lead the training, like Milovan Ratkovic (FIDE 2411), a Serbian International Master and chess coach who started playing at age 9; Mat Kolosowski (FIDE ...

3. Chess as mental training - Wikipedia

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   The Chess'n Math Association promotes chess at the scholastic level in Canada. Chess for Success is a program for at-risk schools in Oregon. [3] Since 1991, the U.S. Chess Center in Washington, D.C. teaches chess to children, especially those in the inner city, "as a means of improving their academic and social skills."

4. Program helps students build life skills through chess - AOL

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   COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Building essential life skills through the game of chess is the goal of the Chess 4 Success program. Students at Columbus’ Linden STEM Academy spend Wednesday afternoon ...

5. Chess - Wikipedia

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   Chess theory usually divides the game of chess into three phases with different sets of strategies: the opening, typically the first 10 to 20 moves, when players move their pieces to useful positions for the coming battle; the middlegame; and last the endgame, when most of the pieces are gone, kings typically take a more active part in the ...

6. Rules of chess - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Chess strategy - Wikipedia

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   Chess strategy is the aspect of chess play concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play. While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such factors as the relative value of the pieces on the board, pawn structure, king safety, position of pieces, and control of key squares and groups of squares (e.g. diagonals ...

8. Prophylaxis (chess) - Wikipedia

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   In chess, prophylaxis consists of a move or series of moves done by a player to prevent their opponent from taking some action. Such preventive moves, or prophylactic moves, aim not only to improve one's position but also to restrict the opponent in improving their own. Many standard and widespread opening moves can be considered prophylactic.

9. Why Penn State enjoys ideal CFP bracket spot, playing chess ...

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   The Nittany Lions won 49-10 to improve to 9-1. They're in optimal CFP positioning. Penn State fans seethed after Franklin lost to the Buckeyes two weeks ago , his 10th loss to OSU in 11 tries.