International Chess Day 2021

International Chess Day 2021

International Chess Day is celebrated on July 20, every year. Chess was invented in India in the fifth century. It was then named “Chaturanga”. International Chess Day is celebrated every year as the founding day of FIDE (World Chess Federation). This year will mark FIDE's 97th anniversary.

Chess is likely one of the oldest games of our era. Chess is a popular game and has been played around the world. Chess helps develop such skills as tactics, strategy, and visual memory. It is one of the oldest strategy games in the world.

International Chess Day: History

On July 20, 1924, at the eighth summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, FIDE (World Chess Federation) was founded. International Chess Day began as the founding day of the FIDE on the same day July 20 in 1966.

The day got a further stamp of approval on December 12, 2019, when the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted resolution 74/22 designating July 20 as World Chess Day.

 

About Chess:

Chess is 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.

 

The player with white pieces always makes the first move. It is a strategy board game, during the game the two opponents take turns to move one of their pieces to a different square of the board. If the player whose king is in danger cannot play any other moves to save the king, it is checkmate, and the player loses the game.

 

Chess Quotes:

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation" — Viswanathan Anand

“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” - Bobby Fischer

"If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master." — Mikhail Botvinnik

“Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted.” — Vladimir Putin

“Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.” — Albert Einstein