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Orion stumbled to Lemnos where Hephaestus—the smith-god—had his forge. Hephaestus told his servant, Cedalion, to guide Orion to the uttermost East where Helios, the Sun, healed him; Orion carried Cedalion around on his shoulders. Orion returned to Chios to punish Oenopion, but the king hid away underground and escaped Orion's wrath.
After his retirement he wrote other chess treatises, but his isolation prevented him from assimilating the positional ideas of the new generation of chess players. For this reason, Hooper and Whyld in their Oxford Companion to Chess describe the last voluminous work of Lewis, A Treatise on Chess (1844), [13] as already "out of date when published".
Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players which involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a square game board called a chessboard containing 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
Pritchard's earliest writings were chess texts for beginners. Begin Chess and The Right Way to Play Chess, first published in the 1950s, have since sold hundreds of thousands of copies. [1] Pritchard also wrote on other games, such as go, shogi, xiangqi and mahjong. [1]
Microchess is a chess program that allows the user to play against a low-level computer opponent. Earlier versions of the game did not have video output: the player would use the keyboard to enter moves using a custom notation, and the program would provide its replies using the same notation. [1]
Chess initial position. The game of chess is commonly divided into three phases: the opening, middlegame, and endgame. [1] There is a large body of theory regarding how the game should be played in each of these phases, especially the opening and endgame.
Deviprasath is an elite chess player, his 2540 rating 90th best in the country among more than 77,000 players. His classical chess rating slots second among U.S. 18-year-olds and 14th among Texas ...
Bogoljubow learned how to play chess at 15 years old, and developed a serious interest at the age of 18. [5] His father was a priest. Originally he wanted to become a priest too, and studied theology in Kiev, [5] but he decided otherwise and enrolled in the Polytechnical Institute to study agriculture. [6]