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#5 – Basics of Chess – The Practical Stuff (Openings & Actually Playing)

By admin On April 12, 2013 · Add Comment
The most common and basic opening (Italian)
  Now that you know all the basic rules and strategies in Chess, you can start playing. You can do this real life, or online on your computer (http://www.chess.com) or on your phone (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.haptic.chesstime) Also, know that there are multiple standard opening moves you can use when starting a game. Most of these have been [...]
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#4 – Basics of Chess – Little Tips & Tricks

By admin On April 12, 2013 · Add Comment
'Castling' in Chess
  As with every game, there are a few exceptions to rules or special moves. I always wonder how these are invented, but I think it’s because people were playing a game for the nth time and found there was something why the game wasn’t working, and thought of a weird special move to solve [...]
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#3 – Basics of Chess – The Board

By admin On April 12, 2013 · Add Comment
A Normal Chess Board
  Every board you can play chess on, has 8 rows of 8 columns, 8×8. This results in 64 fields to play on. The rows (vertical) are named 1-8, the columns (horizontal) are called a-h. Therefore, you can say for example ‘Bishop to f4!’. There’s a basic placement each player starts in. Pawn Pawn Pawn [...]
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#2 – Basics of Chess – The pieces

By admin On April 12, 2013 · Add Comment
The Pieces in Chess
  As said before, you always start with the same 16 basic pieces of your color, arranged in the same order on the board. Basically all pieces; May not jump over other pieces Can be moved to any unoccupied field without problems Can be moved to any occupied field with one of the opponent’s pieces [...]
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#1 – Basics of Chess – Your Objective

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Your Objective in Chess - Checkmate!
  Your objective in chess is to, by doing your turns according to the rules, checkmate your opponent. Your opponent is checkmated when his king can be hit by one of your pieces in the next turn, and it can’t go to any other field without being hit by a piece of yours the next [...]
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Basics of Chess – Master in Minutes

By admin On April 12, 2013 · Add Comment
Basics of Chess - Master in Minutes
Welcome to this concise tutorial on how to play chess the right way, just in case you might ever want to play chess and impress people, or just look smart when you see people playing chess on a terrace and suddenly say the one very good turn Chess is an ancient, old game. It is [...]
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The Paradox(es) of Zeno

By admin On February 10, 2013 · Add Comment
Paradoxes of Zeno
A long time ago, there was a Greek philosopher called Zeno of Elea (ca. 490–430 BC). He kind of dedicated his life to thinking of paradoxes that would explain why motion is nothing but an illusion, and as said in Plato’s Parmenides, just to argue against those who had created paradoxes against the view of [...]
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Of Monsters and Men

By admin On February 3, 2013 · Add Comment
OfMonstersAndMenRiddle
For years, a group of 10 fluffy beasts called the Flurbles has lived on an island. Nobody knew about them, and they had a happy life there. But, one day, a monster suddenly pops out of the sea, big as a skyscraper, stinky as eh someone very stinky – an horrendous experience altogether. He states [...]
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Learn How to View Stereograms

By admin On January 26, 2013 · 1 Comment
It's a boat!
Before you learn how to view stereograms, you’ll of course want to know what stereograms are. Stereograms are pictures, which are seemingly only a sequence or loop of certain images, but when you view them with the proper technique you can see hidden 3D images in them! Below is an easy example:   The Technique [...]
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Three Cowboys Duel

By admin On January 25, 2013 · Add Comment
Three Cowboys Duel
Long, long ago there was this country called Rockson. It was a well organized country, and a big one. This was because of the many well trained cowboys in the country. One day two cowboys from adjacent countries attack the leader of Rockson, who has trained shooting all his life, while his two attackers are [...]
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