Chess: Classic Board Game Play

Chess is one of the best free famous board games for Android smartphones and tablets. From ancient times, it has been top ranked among the most popular games for mind training, developing leader thinking abilities, strategy and tactics skills, and improving overall IQ level! Classic chess game makes great useful time spending for both kids and adults, family, friends, colleagues and classmates! Chess is a two player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga sometime before the 7 century. Chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi, and shogi. Chess reached Europe by the 9 century, due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The pieces assumed their current powers in Spain in the late 15 century; the modern rules were standardized in the 19th century. Play involves no hidden information. Each player begins with 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops and eight pawns. Each piece type moves differently, with the most powerful being the queen and the least powerful the pawn. The objective is to checkmate the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. To this end, a player's pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, while supporting each other. During the game, play typically involves exchanging pieces for the opponent's similar pieces, and finding and engineering opportunities to trade advantageously or to get a better position. In addition to checkmate, a player wins the game if the opponent resigns, or (in a timed game) runs out of time. There are also several ways that a game can end in a draw. The first generally recognized World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886. Since 1948, the World Championship has been regulated by the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), the game's international governing body. FIDE also awards life-time master titles to skilled players, the highest of which is Grandmaster (GM). Many national chess organizations have a title system of their own. FIDE also organizes the Women's World Championship, the World Junior Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Blitz and Rapid World Championships, and the Chess Olympiad, a popular competition among international teams. FIDE is a member of the International Olympic Committee, which can be considered as a recognition of chess as a sport. Several national sporting bodies (e.g. the Spanish Consejo Superior de Deportes) also recognize chess as a sport. Chess was included in the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games. There is also a Correspondence Chess World Championship and a World Computer Chess Championship. Online chess has opened amateur and professional competition to a wide and varied group of players. Since the second half of the 20th century, chess engines have been programmed to compute, analyze, predict, choose and play with increasing success, to the point where the strongest programs play at a higher level than the best human players. Since the 1990s, computer analysis has contributed significantly to chess theory, particularly in the endgame. The powerful IBM super computer Deep Blue was the first machine to calculate more moves and overcome a reigning World Chess Champion in a match when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997. The rise of strong chess math software engines runnable on hand-held devices has led to increasing concerns about cheating during tournaments. Advance in deep learning, big data, AI (artificial intelligence) technology play significant role in computer vs human. There are many variants of chess that utilize different rules, pieces or boards. This special game version is completely free and adapted for Android smartphone and tablet! Please leave your comments at Google Play and share game with your friends on Facebook! Have fun!