* List of chess games

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Learning time does not necessarily correlate with the number or complexity of rules ; some games, such as chess or Go, have simple rulesets while possessing profound strategies.

While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

Some games, such as chess, depend almost entirely on player skill.

Some games ( chess being the classic example ) are perfect information games: every player has complete information on the state of the game.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

This is most often used in wargaming, though many abstract strategy games such as Abalone, Agon, hexagonal chess, and connection games use hexagonal layouts.

* Abstract strategy games like chess, Tafl games, checkers, go, Reversi, or modern games such as Abalone or Stratego

Items such as billiard balls, dominoes and pieces for games like chess, checkers, and backgammon are constructed of Bakelite for its look, durability, fine polish, weight, and sound.

Specific games, as chess, have their own code systems to record the matches ( chess notation ).

In many domains there are objective measures of performance capable of distinguishing experts from novices: expert chess players will almost always win games against recreational chess players ; expert medical specialists are more likely to diagnose a disease correctly ; etc.

* Elo rating system, a system for measuring the relative strength of players in chess and other two-player games

It defines the rules of chess, both for playing individual games ( i. e. the board and moves ) and for the conduct of international competitions.

German-style games are usually less abstract than chess, but more abstract than wargames and train games.

She played chess with him by postcard.

Many chess openings and variations are named after Nimzowitsch, the most famous being the Nimzo-Indian Defence ( 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 ) and the less often played Nimzowitsch Defence ( 1. e4 Nc6 ).

Correspondence chess ( chess played by post or email ) is regulated by the International Correspondence Chess Federation, an independent body that co-operates with FIDE where appropriate.

When he was five, he played card games such as pinochle and then chess.

In real life, Bogart played tournament chess, one level below master level and often played with crew members and cast off the set.

It was reportedly his idea that Rick Blaine be portrayed as a chess player, which also served as a metaphor for the sparring relationship of the characters played by Bogart and Rains in the movie.

In 1984 in Budapest, Sophia and Judit, at the time nine and seven years of age respectively, played two games of blindfold chess against two masters which they won.

In June 1998 in Budapest, Polgár played an eight game match of " action " chess, which is 30 minutes for the entire game, against Anatoly Karpov.

In November 1998, Polgár played in the Wydra Memorial Rapid chess tournament in Israel.

In August 2003, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match in Mainz, Germany against Viswanathan Anand, billed as the " Battle of the Sexes ".

Blitz chess is played with each player having only 5 minutes for all moves.

In December 2006, Polgár played a six-game match of blindfold rapid chess against former FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov.

Some chess pundits said she was unprepared for the tournament and appeared affected by the fact that she'd played less chess in the last three years to concentrate on her two children.

In April 2010, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match against Czech GM David Navara which was part of the ČEZ Chess Trophy 2010 festival of the Prague Chess Society.

Alfonso also describes a game entitled " astronomical chess ", played on a board of seven concentric circles, divided radially into twelve areas, each associated with a constellation of the Zodiac.

In the thirteenth century, chess had been played in Europe for almost two hundred years, having been introduced into Europe by Arabs around the year 1000.

One example, chess, has been played by mail for centuries ( when played in this way, it is known as correspondence chess ).

* Knightmare Chess, a chess variant played with cards.

Karpov was born on May 23, 1951 at Zlatoust in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union, and learned to play chess at the age of four.

At twelve, he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following remark about the young Karpov: " The boy does not have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.

" Karpov acknowledged that his understanding of chess theory was very confused at that time, and wrote later that the homework which Botvinnik assigned greatly helped him, since it required that he consult chess books and work diligently.

His most notable successes were first-place finishes at Copenhagen 1923, Marienbad 1925, Dresden 1926, Hanover 1926, the Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament, and second place behind Alekhine at the San Remo 1930 chess tournament.

Nimzowitsch supplemented many of the earlier simplistic assumptions about chess strategy by enunciating in his turn a further number of general concepts of defensive play aimed at achieving one's own goals by preventing realization of the opponent's plans.

Since the second half of the 20th century, computers have been programmed to play chess with increasing success, to the point where home computers can play chess at a very high level.

Some have criticized the obvious stagings in this film as being at odds with Vertov's credos of " life as it is " and " life caught unawares ": the scene of the woman getting out of bed and getting dressed is obviously staged, as is the reversed shot of the chess pieces being pushed off a chess board and the tracking shot which films Mikhail Kaufman riding in a car filming a third car.

It is recognized by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) as the supreme body responsible for the organization of chess and its championships at global and continental levels.

She learned to play chess at age five, emigrating with her parents to Brooklyn that same year ( 1989 ).

He and his wife Klára educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject.

After the game the friend joked, " You are good at chess, but I'm a good cook.

" Polgár described herself at that age as " obsessive " about chess.

In the end, the Museum allowed the chess set to be displayed at the Isle of Lewis festival tournament, but they were not used in any games.

Polgár returned to chess at the prestigious Corus chess tournament on January 15, 2005.