There’s several criteria that go into achieving an initial FIDE rating. The tournament must be FIDE rated. You must score 1 point or more in the event. Yo...

Elephant sounds Elephants make a sound, known as a trumpet, to signal excitement, aggression and distress. This trumpeting can be heard from up to six mil...

In a 52-card deck, there are 54,912 possible 3-of-a-Kind hand combinations and 858 distinct ranks of 3-of-a-Kind hands. Each Three-of-a-Kind is rated by i...

Guide to Crazyhouse Here are some tips to improve: • As GM Yasser Seirawan would say, first and foremost is king safety. • Develop your pieces in the open...

Even though two knights cannot force checkmate (with the help of their king) against a lone king (with the exception of positions where White wins in one ...

Checkmate, usually known as “Mate”, is a situation in the game of Chess where a player’s King is threatened directly by another player’s piece (the King i...

The objective in Chaturanga is to checkmate the opponent king; but, unlike chess, the stalemated king gets the victory. There is no difference with chess ...

A “full house” consists of three of a kind plus a pair. The hand above is called “kings full of tens” because the player has three kings and two tens. The...

The round ended with the champion victorious as Magnus Carlsen made sure of outright first prize with a round to spare, while the young pretender was left...

To download a PGN of your game, click the ‘download’ button beneath the move buttons of any game: This will bring you to a download page. If you want the ...