Chess Reviews

Chess is one of those games that you inevitably get exposed to at school. It's a very daunting game for the newcomer, because there is so much to learn before you can play. Chess is a game for two players, played on a board made up of 64 white and black squares. Each player has a range of pieces, each of which can move around the board ...  Read the complete review

Chess is a game of combat played on a flat square board divided into 64 black and white squares which alternate in colour. The board in effect is a battle field and each player starts with 16 playing pieces. One player has white coloured pieces and the other player has black coloured pieces. The pieces are lined up on opposite sides ...  Read the complete review

Although chess is a pretty easy game to play, it is extremely difficult and complex to master it with any degree of success. For the full rules and explanation on how to play this intriguing game, here is the link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess At its most basic, the idea of chess is to 'capture' your ...  Read the complete review

Chess... A Classic game of intelligence my passion started when I was small but it got lost by the age of ten :( Then after being stuck i a locked room with some kids at 14 i started to play again and became very good at it, a natural and then went to develop my talents going to clubs and being crown chess champ a few time here and in ...  Read the complete review

Chess is a classical board game that dates back to the 15th century, this had evolved from games like this created in India. This is a fun game and a good way to get your brain working. In this game two people can play, they each have sixteen pieces, eight pawns, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, a king and a queen. ...  Read the complete review

Why on earth would I want to review Chess? Everyone knows what a good game Chess is, right? Well, it occurs to me that with Chess, the same thing may have happened to other people as happened to me. I use to be an eager chess player as a child, playing my brother repeatedly, taking part in Chess club at school and eventually even ...  Read the complete review

Intro: Ok, now where do you start with Chess, probably the greatest strategy game ever. I have broken this review down into two parts, the basic rules and my opinion on the game. I am not going into two many details on the basic rules as it is too complicated and would take too long to go into everything, but hope that you ...  Read the complete review

?So its your move then? ?Oh Ok, there!? ?Check Mate? ?Damn - ooh Ow? ?You alright? ?Course, I?m only in labour!? ?and that was the conversation that ended my last proper game of chess with my husband. I was induced at 9.30 in the morning, I wasn?t ...  Read the complete review

-~0~- CHESS -~0~- -~0~- A little history -~0~- The origins of chess can be dated back to 5th Century BC India , where the game of Caturanga was played .Europe has known and played the game of Chess continuously since the 9th century . The 16th century brought refinements and changes that are the basis of todays game . ...  Read the complete review

I have mixed feelings about chess. Some people love it, some people have no time for it. I suppose I learned to play when I was about eleven or twelve; I liked it initially because it's a game of pure skill, and I'm easily bored by games of luck. I like the little pieces, and I like the basic simplicity of the rules. However.. I'm ...  Read the complete review

I had my thinking cap on today. Why? I hear you ask. The reason being I have just spent the afternoon playing chess. That mind taxing game that has been around for hundreds of years. Yes, chess played on that familiar black and white checked board. With all of them little soldiers waging a war against each other. The object of the ...  Read the complete review

I would first like to blame the chess software that I have for being defective in some way. Dozens and dozens of games I have played, and yet I still have not, even on the easiest of settings won a game against Mr. Compter. This will remain my excuse until I actually win a game (he thought dreamily), and it will then be my mastery of the ...  Read the complete review

Ok so we have all heard of chess. The game of strategy where you are in control of an army of pieces. Each piece has a set move it may make and you must plan ahead and attempt to trap your opositions king. This game is great for forward thinkers because if you just jump in to the "battle" then you may take an opponents ...  Read the complete review

Here’s a thought: chess, unlike pool, monopoly, tennis, basketball, risk or Street Fighter II Turbo, is a game in which both your success and failure is blamable on only a single factor – you. You don’t get a lucky rebound in chess. There’s no bad decisions from any officals. You can’t throw a third double number ...  Read the complete review

I was introduced to chess just over a year ago by a friend who loves the game, and wanted a new opponent. I had never played and had absolutely no idea of the rules and moves. Looking back my view of chess was all wrong and I now know a lot of people have mis-conceptions about the game. I am writing this article in an attempt to give you an ...  Read the complete review

THose who are god at ches consider it to be a superb game which takes real genius to play. Those of us possessed of less talent for the game find it frustrating and have been known to throw peices at people....It doesn't seem to make much odds are good you are at other games (throing modesty to the wind, I have to say I'm generally a ...  Read the complete review

First, a crash course in how to play chess: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ A chessboard consists of 64 squares alternately coloured black and white and arranged in 8 ranks and 8 columns. Each player has sixteen pieces:- A king; a queen; two bishops; two knights (or horseys); two rooks (or castles) and eight pawns (NOT prawns, ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ I was introduced to chess, one of the world’s very first “strategy” games, at about the age of thirteen. My old history master at school was a total fanatic, and started up a chess club for the kids, which was very well attended due mostly to his huge enthusiasm, which was very infectious. Later, when I showed a ...  Read the complete review

Two armies face each other bristling with anticipation and fear, awaiting the command to charge across the open expanse of the battlefield. The sounds of battle echo around eerily, casting a cloak of terror over those waiting to enter battle. Sword clashes against sword as the weak fall and the strong succeed. As the battle rages, the commander ...  Read the complete review

When, where, and what was the most newsworthy event of the twentieth century? And I mean news-WORTHY. Not something that was entertaining or diverting, but something that was significant: that told us that the world had changed for ever and was going to keep on changing. So what was it? The death of Princess Diana in Paris in ...  Read the complete review