In country like India, where sports like Cricket is celebrated as the unofficial national game, only few are aware that origin of Chess is nowhere else but is in India. It is not the fault of the people , because where most of the promotions and sponsorships revolves around famous sports, Chess is given less importance than it actually deserves.
Origin of Chess :
Origin of Chess is attributed to the Indian tactics called ‘Chathuranga’ where the armed forces of ancient India had four divisions of Infantry, Cavalry, Elephantry and Chariots. Based on the officers who held these divisions, the present units of Chess are named as Pawns , Knights, Rooks and Bishops along with the King and the Queen. This strategy travelled across the borders and reached Europe and Russia where it is taken up as a sport form.
Modern day Chess:
The modern day tournament started in 1851 in London. FIDE, a french acronym of World Chess Federation was founded in London in 1924, took over the official conduction of world championships. Later it was authenticated by Olympics committee and most of the official tournaments are now being conducted by FIDE.
ELO ratings
ELO ratings is the ranking system provided by Arpad Elo, an American professor and an active Chess participant in United States Chess Federation. Chess is that sport where we cannot give points based on moves, but can arrive at a conclusion based on the mean of the performance. So a win or loss or draw is affiliated with certain points which is added to the database of the player and based on the average of these points, a player is allotted a ranking
A beginner is assigned with 400 points and he reaches a national level ranking when he is around 1600. Becomes a Chess master with 2200, Senior master with 2400 and Grand master with 2500. Above this he becomes a world champion as he touches 2900. So with every tournament , the points and position keeps changing.
G.Praggananda
Praggananda, famously known as ‘Pragg’, a Chennai based kid is the second youngest Grandmaster at the age of 12 is the breaking news today. Ukraine Sergey Karjakin, who is few months younger than Pragg is the world’s youngest Grandmaster. Viswanathan Anand, the first Indian Grandmaster in 1988 is followed by 47 Grandmasters. Koneru Humpy, is the seventh Indian and first woman Grandmaster from India in 2002. Along with her, Harika Dronavalli, 25th Grandmaster in 2011, are the only women in this long list. Present world champion in men is Magnus Carlsen of Norway and in women is Hou Yifan of China.
WRITTEN BY SOCIAL AUTHOR MISS. PRABHA KATHAMUTHU
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