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CANADA'S CHESS MAGAZINE FOR KIDS June 2020 number 148 BEHIND CASTLE DOORS HOW DO YOU ZOO? ROOK EXERCISES SSCCHHOOLLAARR’’SS MMAATTEE HEllo, Chess Pals! Canada’s Chess Magazine For Kids On-line and free! The Chess’n Math Association publishes Scholar’s Mate four times per year as a PDF document. You can read the “e-magazine” on your computer screen or print it out. The magazine can also be viewed in DNL format, with pages that actually turn! A free DNL Reader can be downloaded from the CMA website. www.chess-math.org If you have any questions about the magazine, please contact us at: [email protected] Strange days have found us. We hope that you are all doing well. SCHOLAR’S MATE 3423 St. Denis #400 Scholar’s Mate is still rolling down the highway, Montreal, Quebec H2X 3L2 safe and sound on your computer screen. That’s one great thing about chess. It’s perfectly suited EDITOR Jeff Coakley for the internet. Illustrator Antoine Duff Good news for Canadian kids. 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Údwdwdwdw] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw This basic practice game is a battle between two mighty One way to get better at chess is to play practice games. rooks and eight passed pawns. There are no kings. It is But you don’t have to start with all of the pieces on the the only exercise with special rules. The others are all board. There are many exercises with fewer pieces that played like normal games. can improve your skills. And guess what? They’re fun! RULES In this class, we present five exercises for practising 1. White wins if a pawn reaches the last rank safely. with rooks. Rook endings are the most common kind of 2. Black wins by capturing all of the pawns. endgame. That’s because rooks are often the last pieces 3. White makes the first two moves. to be developed and traded. Being good at rook endings (Some people like a3 and h3; others e4 and d4.) is a useful skill that takes time to learn. It’s best to do the exercises with a stronger player, or Play this exercise from both sides. Eventually you will at least somebody as good as you. If you have trouble find that the rooks have the advantage. If you want to finding an opponent, you can also do most of them on a make it tougher on the rooks, change the rules so that computer. Programs usually have a feature that lets you White wins by getting a pawn to the last rank, even if it set up positions. can be captured immediately. Or, to make it tougher on the pawns, change the rules so that White only has one move on their first turn. 6 Scholar’s Mate 148 Scholar’s Mate 148 7 ROOK + 2 PAWNS vs. ROOK ROOK GAME w________w w________w áwdw4kdwd] árdwdkdw4] àdwdwdwdw] à0p0p0p0p] ßwdwdwdwd] ßwdwdwdwd] Þdwdwdwdw] Þdwdwdwdw] Ýwdwdwdwd] Ýwdwdwdwd] Üdwdwdwdw] Üdwdwdwdw] Ûwdw)Pdwd] ÛP)P)P)P)] ÚdwdRIwdw] Ú$wdwIwdR] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw Winning this game with White is harder than it looks. This game is the all-purpose exercise for rook endings. The white king and pawns must advance together and The “opening play” is a little strange, but usually after not let the black king set up a blockade. The rooks work about 10 moves, a normal “game-like” position arises. better at a distance: White’s from the side (on the a-file Then the real practice begins. or h-file), and Black’s from behind the pawns (on the 1st The main strategic principle in rook endings is rook rank). Losing a pawn usually means a draw. activity. We want our rooks to be active (free to move and attack), and the opponent’s rooks to be passive ROOK + 4 PAWNS vs. ROOK + 3 PAWNS (stuck guarding pawns). w________w Sometimes king safety is a factor, especially if a king is áwdw4kdwd] trapped along its back rank. But often an active king is àdwdp0pdw] an advantage. For example, when he can help support ßwdwdwdwd] the advance of a passed pawn. Þdwdwdwdw] Ýwdwdwdwd] Üdwdwdwdw] ÛwdP)P)wd] ÚdwdRIwdw] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw Play this game from both sides. As White, your goal is to win. As Black, not to lose. Neither side is easy. White aims for a winning Lucena position, and Black for the Philidor draw. See our classes in Scholar’s Mate issues 122 and 123. 8 Scholar’s Mate 148 Scholar’s Mate 148 9 EX GAMES w________w w________w áwdbdkdw4] áwhwdkdw4] à0p0p0p0p] à0p0p0p0p] MMOORRTT and MMAARRLLEEYY ßwdwdwdwd] ßwdwdwdwd] Þdwdwdwdw] Þdwdwdwdw] Ýwdwdwdwd] Ýwdwdwdwd] Üdwdwdwdw] Üdwdwdwdw] ÛP)P)P)P)] ÛP)P)P)P)] Ú$wdwIwdR] Ú$wdwIwdR] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw When we are “up the exchange” (R vs. B or R vs. N), we are ahead in material. But it is the quality of the pieces, not the quantity, that gives us an advantage. The way to show the superiority of a rook over a minor piece is to open the position as much as possible. The more open the board becomes, the stronger the rook gets. A bishop also benefits when a game opens up, but not as much as a rook. So when you are ahead by “the ex”, the correct strategy is the same whether your opponent has Hey, Mort. It’s great to have an ape a bishop or knight. Open the position. This is achieved by for a friend, eh? means of trading pawns. Yea, and he’s really good at chess too. The defender should play to keep things closed and to hold their share of the centre. In general, the minor Did you know that the DNA for orangutans piece can deal with one open file, but two open files are and humans is 97 per cent the same ? a problem. Wow, so how can we tell them apart? A standard way to win when Well, long orange hair is one difference. you are ahead the exchange is to give back the rook for a minor But what about us, Marley? Are chess piece and pawn to simplify into pieces also like human beings? a won pawn ending. I don’t think so, Mort. Our DNA is more By the way, castling is allowed closely related to lego people. in these rook games. That’s it for this class. Happy Cool, some of my best friends are legos! endings, everybody! 10 Scholar’s Mate 148 Scholar’s Mate 148 11 l c a n a d a to p ten l TACTICS 102 KINDERGARTEN GRADE 7 TACTICS 102 1 CHEN Yu Xuan 1100 QC 1 CHEN Max 2370 ON 2 RONDON MORA Raul 769 QC 2 ZHENG Richard 2272 QC “WIN A PAWN!” 3 PAN Julian 660 ON 3 ZHAO Jeffrey 2180 ON 4 ZHU Edison 645 ON 4 ZHANG Chu Hang 2158 QC White to play and win material. 5 DEMOTTE Kamil 579 QC 5 LIU Henry 2056 ON 6 WEI Lucas 564 QC 6 AJITH Aayush 2044 ON solutions page 47 7 XIE Harry 555 BC 7 SRINIVASAN Hemant 1988 AB 8 MUTYALAPATI Modith 552 ON 8 HUANG Youhe 1972 ON 9 NOOKALA Abhiroop 516 BC 9 SHARMA Vishruth 1962 ON 10 PALANDE Sahil 496 BC 10 WANG Rachel 1839 QC GRADE 1 GRADE 8 1 PERLA Manny 1030 AB 1 RUSONIK Max 2278 ON 2 ZHANG Steven 965 BC 2 ISSANI Nameer 2271 ON w________w w________w 3 CERICOV David 944 QC 3 KANG Dorian 2267 ON 4 KATS Daniel 884 ON 4 WANG Paul 2074 AB 5 YAO Mike 868 ON 5 BUI Alan 2074 ON áw4wdw4kd] árdwdkdw4] 6 LOW Ethan 841 BC 6 GAO Raymond 2044 ON 7 DEGG Micah 813 AB 7 NOOR ALI Aahil 1997 ON 8 ZHANG Michelle 809 NS 8 CRACIUN David 1813 QC àdRdwdp0w] àdp0ndp0w] 9 WANG Lucas 791 QC 9 WINDRAM James 1747 AB 10 ZHANG Bryan 785 MB 10 TSUKERMAN Julia 1737 QC ßpdwdwdw0] ßwdwdwdw0] GRADE 2 GRADE 9 1 NAIBOGLU Onur 1250 ON 1 HUANG Qiuyu 2475 QC 2 WU Nicholas 1195 BC 2 TANAKA Tyler 2357 QC Þdwdw0wdw] Þ0wdw0wdw] 3 TSO Justin 1194 ON 3 HUANG Patrick 2256 BC 4 JUTRAS Arnaud 1180 QC 4 DOKNJAS Neil 2218 BC Ýw)wdPdwd] ÝwdBdPdwd] 5 GAO Heye 1125 ON 5 TIAN Sherry 2112 BC 6 IVANOV-YUAN Maksim 1119 QC 6 MAO Fengxi 2093 ON 7 MARCHAND Calix 1103 NS 7 RICHARD Leo 2085 QC Ü)wdwdwdP] Üdw)wdwdP] 8 AJITH Aarush 1094 ON 8 WU Tony 2068 QC 9 JOHNSON Joshua 1084 AB 9 ENGLAND Max 2050 ON 10 HUANG Justin 1075 ON 10 ZHAO Jeffrey 2044 ON ÛwdwdwdPI] ÛP)wdw)Pd] GRADE 3 GRADE 10
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    TURKISH GREAT CHESS AND CHINESE WHISPERS: MISADVENTURES OF A CHESS VARIANT Georgi Markov National Museum of Natural History – BAS, Sofia Stefan Härtel Freie Universität Berlin A large chess variant with 52 pieces originally described in a 1800s Ottoman Turkish book as šaṭranǧ-i kabīr, or great chess, appears under various names in a number of subsequent Western sources, including authoritative works on chess history and variants. Game rules as presented in the latter are seriously flawed though, with inaccuracies regarding pieces array and moves. Over a period of more than two centuries, baseless assumptions, misreadings of previous sources and outright errors gradually accumulating in the literature have changed the game almost beyond recognition. With some of the game’s aspects not covered even by the original Turkish source, reconstructed rules are suggested and discussed, as well as a reformed variant. Introduction A chess variant with 26 pieces a side was described in a Turkish encyclopaedia, Ad-Durar al-muntahabāt al-manṯūra fī iṣlāḥ al-ġalaṭāt al-mašhūra1 by Abū'r-Rafīd Muḥammad Ḥafīd Ibn-Muṣṭafā ʿĀšir, published in AH 1221/CE 1806/72, as šaṭranǧ-i kabīr, or great chess.3 A number of later sources, including seminal works such as e.g. Murray’s History of Chess (Murray 1913), describe the game under varying names. While all 1 Written in Ottoman Turkish, the title of this work and the name of its author have been transcribed in various ways in later sources. Here, we are following the transcription conventions of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. The copy of this rare book used in this paper is from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
  • Heraldry As Art : an Account of Its Development and Practice, Chiefly In

    Heraldry As Art : an Account of Its Development and Practice, Chiefly In

    H ctwWb gc M. L. 929.6 Ev2h 1600718 f% REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00663 0880 HERALDRY AS ART HERALDRY AS ART AN ACCOVNT OF ITS DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICE CHIEFLY IN ENGLAND BY G W. EVE BTBATSFORD, 94 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON I907 Bctlkr & Tanner, The Selwood Printing ^Vobks, Frome, and London. 1GC0718 P r e fa c e THE intention of this book is to assist the workers in the many arts that are concerned with heraldry, in varying degrees, by putting before them as simply as possible the essential principles of heraldic art. In this way it is hoped to contribute to the improve- ment in the treatment of heraldry that is already evident, as a result of the renewed recognition of its ornamental and historic importance, but which still leaves so much to be desired. It is hoped that not only artists but also those who are, or may become, interested in this attractive subject in other ways, will find herein some helpful information and direction. So that the work of the artist and the judgment and appreciation of the public may alike be furthered by a knowledge of the factors that go to make up heraldic design and of the technique of various methods of carrying it into execution. To this end the illustrations have been selected from a wide range of subjects and concise descriptions of the various processes have been included. And although the scope of the book cannot include all the methods of applying heraldry, in Bookbinding, Pottery and Tiles for example, the principles that are set forth will serve ;; VI PREFACE all designers who properly consider the capabilities and limitations of their materials.