Ashdod Chess

Chess is a board game that offers fun and excitement to the players. It is a game that stimulates the mind and exercises your brain. Played in the ancient period between the kings and royal family members, this war game teaches the skill of warfare in a non-violent way. Though the world does not have any kings or kingdoms anymore, every person is waging a battle with the world in his own way. Learning the game of chess and playing it regularly will equip a person to fight the battle of life with poise and confidence.

The salient feature of the game is that the player enjoys the game, gets excited and relaxed while playing the game, and at the same time, learns invaluable skills that would go beyond the game and make him live an organized life.

The invaluable traits that one learns by playing the game include deep thinking, logical analysis, concentration, visualization or foresight, imagination, dynamic planning, decision-making, patience, social skills, assuming responsibility and self-confidence, to name some of the few.

Why should the children be encouraged to play this game?

The game of chess is very easy to learn and the rules are very simple. Moving the pieces through the squares across the board from one side to the other side without getting captured by the opponent’s pieces will be an interesting puzzle game for the kids. The way Knight moves across the board is interesting. Children will have fun playing this game.

Children are taught about the various pieces, their special capabilities and simple rules, such as bishop moves in diagonals, the bishop placed in a dark-colored square in the beginning cannot move through light-colored squares, rooks can move only horizontally or vertically and so and so forth.

Children will be trained to recognize the pieces and remember their characteristics and abilities.

Simple chess puzzles will introduce the child to the habit of thinking. He will try to apply his mind before making move. This is a good beginning and the child, right from his infant age, is introduced to the habit of thinking before acting. The bad trait of haste is eliminated from the child at the early age itself. The child, in his pursuit to solve the puzzle, not only resorts to thinking but also learns the reasoning skills – where to move, where not to move and such other things – all as part of the game.

The child is taught the value of the pieces – such as one for the pawns, 3 for the knights and bishops, 5 for the rooks and 9 for the queen. The King is the invaluable piece.

The child will be exposed to calculate the value of pieces, applying reasoning to ensure that his valuable pieces are safeguarded and the pieces are not gifted or carelessly lost in the game. This is an invaluable trait, which exposes the child to assign importance based on the values. This calculating ability and assigning importance will help him perform well in subjects involving calculations such as mathematics.

As the child learns the game and improvises his skills, he will start thinking a little deep, foresee the moves of the opponent. This will open up to a new world of creativity, imagination and foresight.

The skills learnt in the game, played for the sake of fun, will get inculcated into his character at the infant age and as he grows up, the invaluable skills of thinking before acting, analyzing, looking ahead and planning will help him face the realities of life with confidence and organize his life in a better way.

Now, with the advancement of the technology, teaching the game of chess is much easier. Children love playing video games in this modern world. Getting chess software that teaches the game in a fun way with animation and includes innumerable puzzles will be a good gift for the children. Encouraging them to play chess online with his friends from the comfort of his home and also with the computer is not beyond the means of many parents in this modern world, and can be effectively used for teaching invaluable skills to the children and make them lead a better life in future.

Chess is a novel game that inculcates invaluable traits and skills to the player, which would go a long way in shaping his life and character.

What is there in this board game that makes it so popular among the people?

It is a miniature of life, in more than one way. In real life, you face both success and failure. This dichotomy is what makes the life more interesting. When you succeed, you will feel happy and move further. When you fail, you may lose heart temporarily or feel dejected, but do not shy away from the life, but take alternative paths to regroup yourself and strive for success.

In the game of chess, the same thing happens often. Chess is a thinking game and what you need to win a game is the tactics and strategies. Not all tactics of yours will yield the desired result at all times. Your tactical plans and steps might be foiled or nullified by the opponent. You do not lose heart or accept defeat once your tactics fail to deliver the results. You try different combinations and make a different plan to corner the opponent’s king.

The more a person practices and masters the game, the better will be his attitude towards life. Now, thanks to the advancement of technology and the increasing usage of the Internet across the world, playing chess online is the easiest and best way for a person to relax, have fun and in the process improves his skill and exercises the brain.

Chess is a fair game in that there is no room for luck or chance to either of the players. If you are person inclined to act first and think later, then chess is not the game for you. You will be hearing only checkmate from the opponent always. In other words, chess calls for serious, deep and logical thinking, careful analysis, visualization, planning and effective execution, if you were to say “checkmate” to your opponent.

One important virtue that the game of chess teaches or sharpens is Intuition. How does one’s intuition can be improved? Intuition leads to creativity in the game of chess, opens up the mind for new ideas and innovative ways of deploying tactics and strategies. However, intuition in the game of chess is not similar to intuition in general.

Intuition refers to that unique quality where one finds the truth instantly. In other words, intuition is referred to as a quick solution that comes to mind suddenly. Does this refer to any random move made instantly without any thought behind the move? No. By intuition in chess, we do not refer to any random move played instantly, that, in a way, confuses the opponent, awakens creativity and opens up new possibilities.

On the other hand, intuition in chess refers to a move made instantly without taking time, through the act of chess instinct. As one gains expertise by playing more number of games, some of the positions, situations, pieces and the games get recorded in the mind. When such a position takes place while playing, the mind quickly recollects the similar situation in earlier games, and the solution for the present game can instantly come to mind. Driven by that recap, one makes the moves. This chess instinct in the game will turn to be intuition in real life situation. The more the chess instinct is sharpened, the more intuitive will be a person in life.

With online chess, a person can develop his chess instinct in particular and intuition in general by playing chess online with innumerable players of different countries and in the process, expands his horizon of thinking and expertise in the game.