40th World Chess Olympiad starts tomorrow

40.  World Chess Olympiad starts tomorrow in Istanbul . 1428 players participate to Olympiad from  161 different countries, the organization held in Istanbul Expo Center reported.

  World Chess Olympics opening ceremony be held tomorrow, Yeşilköy WOW Hotel. During the Olympic, 83th The World Chess Federation (FIDE) Congress, the World Under 16 Chess Olympiad, 11 Istanbul International Festival of Chess, the FIDE referee, coach and organizer trainings to be done.

In the meantime, the Olympic Web site, "www.chessolympiadistanbul.com" in Turkish, English, Russian, French, Spanish and Arabic will serve in 6 different languages​​. All matches will be available live via the Internet during the Olympics.

40. World Chess Olympiad, September 9 and ends on Sunday.

Chess Engines

Chess engines are auto chess playing computer programs. They call it engine because in fact they are written for playing chess and does not need an interface but without interface user can not play with them or against them. What does it means? It means they can be as well console applications instead of web applications which mostly they are and integrate with interfaces. Even more than one engine you can add in one interface and they can play against each other too.

People mostly thinking they are like in movie of matrix a thinking computers but in fact they are not. What they do is actually only calculating. And this calculating can add even nonsense moves into evaluation. A chess engine can not perceive positional things or a simple perpetual check opportunity. Human brain or term of thinking is getting some data from outside and interpret it freely which is nothing to do with calculating. But they increasing these programs' abilities every year. They are quite strong even without positional or strategic understanding of game because of their calculating advantage gives them very high tactical capacity which none of human being can not reach ever. I can give you simple example for it. For example in movie of rainman the guy was like a chess engine too. But he can not have thinking ability like normal human being. This filtering avoid your brain calculate fast and huge data in seconds.

Professional players can not beat them anymore even world champions or world highest ranked players. Professional players nowadays use them for training. They can also run in standard computers as well high capability computers. People mostly thinking the first ever chess engine is IBM' Deep Blue because of its fame ( it beaten Kasparov in match but even it is not the first one who beaten Kasparov ). Even Bobby Fischer played against one of them and beat it. Some of them free share some of them not. That means you can have one of them in your computer too. For example chess master is not free. You see on sidebar bottom there is chess puzzle and on tab of more there is chess playing program attached to post is Shredder.

Some Famous Chess Engines:

There are lots of engines already created but here some famous ones.

Rybka    

Chess Master

Deep Blue

Fritz

Shredder

Hiarcs

Houdini

Critter

Spike

Delfi

How many squares are there on chess board?

Ok in the post of  'how many squares' you solved the question. Because of its reputation and my interest about chess and math ( math is little bit related with programming too ) i want to show you a tricky question. In a chess board there are 8x8=64 squares but actually there are more squares hidden on chess board. And the real answer is in fact 204.






Formula for calculating it is like this.
n x (n + 1) x (2n + 1)
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6

You can check it here

How many squares

Can you guess how many square there ?

How many squares inside ? Can you see? A math question for you.
Not many people can say the right answer.
So If you can that means you are a unique person. I struggled to find right answer at first too. But in the end i found. Now it is your turn..

Do not miss any squares. Count carefully.

This is a brain burning i know.

Good luck.

Click here to your answer please.

37

25

16 

40 

More than 100 

Damn i dunno 

Anand defended his title again

After 2010 Veselin Topalov challenge, world champion Indian Super GM Vismanathan Anand won against Israeli Grand Master Boris Gelfald after tiebreak 2.5, 1.5 / 4 .Match played at Moscow State Tretyakov Gallery, between 11 may - 30 may 2012.

Same like previous challenge Anand lost first game in 7th game but surprisingly in 8th game Gelfald made a big blunder and score tied again in standart time control games. Regular time control games finished 6-6 tied +1-1=10.

Rapid games which Anand always favorite in world.25 minutes time control 4 games played in one day and 1 Anand win 3 draw resulted.

If someone wondering why World Number 1 rated player Norwegian Magnus Carlsen is not there against Anand.Because he withdrew from candidates tournament with declaration against format of tour for challenge.I want to see him in the chair against Anand.

Chess Game

Can you beat the computer? Here is game ..