INDOOR RECREATIONAL
ACTIVITIES (CHESS)
MAPEH 8
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
❖ Define chess.
❖ Play chess appropriately.
❖ Appreciate the advantages of
playing chess
1 NAME ME!
KING QUEEN PAWN BISHOP
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CHESS BOARD ROOK
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CHESS CLOCK KNIGHT
CHESS
❖ A board game for two players. It is
played on a square board, made of 64
smaller squares, with eight squares
on each side. Each player starts with
sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two
knights, two bishops, two rooks, one
queen and one king.
BRIEF HISTORY
❖ The game of chess is believed to have originated
in India, where it was called chaturanga prior to
the 6th century AD.
❖ Long ago, it was considered a game reserved only
for Kings and members of the upper classes.
❖ Nowadays, chess is played by common people even
at an early age.
BRIEF HISTORY
❖ It was from India that the game became popular,
and its popularity began spreading to Persia.
❖ When Persia was conquered by the Arabs in 633
AD, Muslims began to play as well.
❖ The Arabs took on the term “Shah Mat” which
translates to “the King is dead;” this is where the
word “checkmate” comes from.
BRIEF HISTORY
❖ The modern design of chess pieces bears the name
Staunton, who was an English master in the mid-
1800s.
❖ The first International Chess Tournament was
London Tourney, played in 1851.
❖ Adolf Anderssen, who is a German, won the game.
He became the unofficial best player of the world
because he did not receive any award or title.
BRIEF HISTORY
❖The first great American-born chess player
is Paul Morphy. He travelled to Europe in
the 1850s where he beat all challengers
including Adolf Anderssen. However, he
never became a world chess champion
because the English champion of the time,
Staunton refused to play with him.
BRIEF HISTORY
❖ The first official championship chess tournament
was played in 1866 in London, with sand clocks to
restrict the length of a game. A Bohemian Jew named
Steinitz won the game and became the world’s first
official chess champion, holding his title until 1894.
❖ Recently, Russia dominated the game of chess. This
result from the establishment of government schools
for talented chess players after the communist
revolution of 1917.
RULES AND CONVENTION
❖ Chess begins with the division of pieces – white
and black sets.
❖ Each set contains 16 pieces, as follows:
➢ 1 king
➢ 1 queen
➢ 2 rooks
➢ 2 bishops
➢ 2 knights
➢ 8 pawns
RULES AND CONVENTION
❖ Each game board has 64 squares, alternating in
color between black and white, with 8 rows and 8
columns, called “ranks” and “files,” respectively.
❖ Typically, the person with the white set makes the
first move.
❖ A piece is moved to an unoccupied square, or a
square occupied by the opponent’s piece that is
captured and taken off the board, no longer in play.
RULES AND CONVENTION
❖ Chess rules state that each player must make a
move on his or her turn and must not put their
own king in check.
❖ Each piece has a different way of moving. For
example, pawns can move forward unless they
are capturing an opponent’s piece, in which
case they can move diagonally.
MOVES OF DIFFERENT CHESS PIECES
• The King is the most important
chess piece; however, it is also
considered one of the weakest.
The king only moves one
square in any direction-up,
down, to the sides, and
diagonally. The king may never
move himself into a check
where he could be captured.
MOVES OF DIFFERENT CHESS PIECES
• The Queen is the most
powerful piece. It moves in
any one straight direction –
forward, backward, sideways,
or diagonal. As all the other
pieces, except the knight, it
cannot move over any
intervening piece.
MOVES OF DIFFERENT CHESS PIECES
• The Rook may move to any
squares as far as it wants,
but only forward, backward,
and to the sides. The rooks
are particularly powerful
pieces when they are
protecting each other and
working together.
MOVES OF DIFFERENT CHESS PIECES
• The Bishop may move as far
as it wants, but only
diagonally. Each bishop starts
on one color (light or dark) and
must always stay on that
color. Bishop work well
together because they cover
up each other’s weaknesses.
MOVES OF DIFFERENT CHESS PIECES
• The Knight moves by going
two squares in one direction,
and then one more moves
just like and “L: shape.
Knights are the only pieces
that can move over other
pieces.
MOVES OF DIFFERENT CHESS PIECES
• The Pawn moves forward
but captures diagonally. It
can never move backwards.
On its first move, the pawn
can advance two squares at
a time. Succeeding moves
will be one square at a time.
TERMS USED IN CHESS
❖Castling – a move
of the king/ or
rook of the same
color along the
player’s first row.
TERMS USED IN CHESS
❖ Check – is the result
of a move that places
the opposing king
under an immediate
threat of capture by
one or sometimes two
of the opponent’s
pieces.
TERMS USED IN CHESS
❖ Checkmate – is a
situation in which one
player’s king is
threatened with
capture (in check)
having no move to
avoid that threats,
thus ending the game.
TERMS USED IN CHESS
❖ Draw – a chess game where nobody ends as a winner.
❖ En Passant – is a special pawn capture which can occur
immediately after a player moves a pawn two squares
forward from its starting position and an enemy pawn
could have captured it had it moved only one square
forward.
❖ Promotion – is a special ability of a pawn wherein if it
reaches the last row of the other side of the board, it can
become any other chess piece except the king.
BENEFITS FROM PLAYING CHESS
1. Chess increases mathematical and scientific skills of the
students. It enhances the problem-solving skills,
concentration ability and logical thinking ability of the
students.
2. It develops a sense of confidence and self-worth.
3. It improves communication skills.
4. It gives lesson on hard work and commitment.
5. It provides entertainment and relaxation.
6. It is considered as a form of recreational therapy.
7. It strengthens family relationship.
LET US REFLECT!
Why is it necessary to
understand the rules of
indoor games such as
scrabble and chess before
participating in them?
THANK YOU
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