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The Korean chess federation (KCF) is a subsidiary organization of FIDE-Fédération Internationale des Échecs and ACF-Asian Chess Federation. It is a non-profit organization that governs

In the meantime, the Korea Chess Federation has been making unremitting efforts and activities to promote and improve the quality and spread of chess, which was almost barren even in Korea, a powerhouse of brain sports. is consolidating.

In the future, the Korea Chess Federation will continue to promote chess as a more advanced sport, continuously expand its base, and promote various strategies and programs to achieve outstanding results, thereby honoring the glory of the Asian or global chess world beyond Korea. We want to go find it.

In that regard, at the right time, we have launched a new website that will encompass the domestic chess world and help link the Korean chess network with the world. I am confident that this site will be a useful way to get to know Korea, giving pleasure and benefit to all those who love chess.

Korea Chess Federation President Hyun In-suk -Greetings-

- How to play

A piece cannot take a piece of the same color as itself.
If a piece moves to an opposing piece's hex, the opposing piece on that hex is captured and moved out of the chessboard. When a piece moves to a place where it can grab an opponent piece on the next move, the piece is said to attack that piece. In particular, attacking the opponent's king is called a check.

Chess is a game in which two players take turns moving pieces on a chessboard.
Whoever catches the white piece always starts first. The purpose of the game of chess is to attack the piece corresponding to the opponent's king (hereafter the king), so that the attack cannot be blocked. A situation in which you attack the opposing king and have no means to avoid or defend against that attack is known as checkmate, and if you do checkmate, you lose the game.

- The history of chess

1. The origin of chess and its spread to Europe
Without knowing the history of chess, you cannot properly understand and learn chess.

Chaturanga, loved in ancient India, spread to Persia, which conquered northern India, and enjoys great popularity. Meanwhile, Islamic law was strengthened and all gambling, especially the dice game, was completely banned. Shatrangj is a game that someone from the Persians, who lost their fun overnight, devised a new game played by two people without dice in Chaturanga. The game spread to the West and became chess today, which some historians consider chess "invented" at this point.

Chaturanga was spread to Persia from the end of the 6th century to the beginning of the 7th century, and the two-player game Shatranji was again spread to the Middle East and the Balkans in North Africa and Europe through the Arabs who conquered Persia between 635 and 651. Chess, which had spread from conquered to conqueror until the Middle Ages, has now spread to Europe mainly through trade routes.

1. Spread to Western Europe through the Moors who conquered the Iberian Peninsula in North Africa (now Spain and Portugal)
2. Spread through the Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire) through the Balkans to Central and Eastern Europe
3. Spread across the Caucasus Peninsula and the Caspian Sea to Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Chess, which spread to Europe in three major ways, spread mainly among the clergy, the royal family, and the aristocracy.

2. How to play chess and the change of pieces

Chaturanga, enjoyed by the ancient Indians, is a game played by 4 players each with 1 king, 1 rook (chariot), 1 knight (cavalry), 1 Aufin (船), 4 pawns (soldiers), a total of 8 pieces. started When converting from Persia to the two-player game Shatranji, the number of all pieces was doubled symmetrically, but Kingman could not have two on the same side, so a piece called Fers was added.

Chaturanga's king, rook, and knight had the same moves as modern chess, but Aufin could jump only two squares diagonally, slightly different from today's bishop, and the Fers added by the Persians also only had one square diagonally, unlike the current queen. Dani was a relatively weak piece.

After that, the Arabs replaced Aufins with elephants, and in the mid-16th century the Spaniards again replaced the elephants with bishops (bishops) and Fers with queens, greatly increasing the firepower of these objects. Bishop is now a long-distance piece that can run diagonally indefinitely, while Queen is a powerful piece that can run all-around straight diagonally. With the addition of a rule in which the pawn advances two spaces, chess, which went through the hands of the Spaniards, became a quick and quick match in which even a mistake in the first one could get a checkmate in a long-running old-fashioned game. It can be said that the temperament of the hot-blooded Iberians has permeated chess.

It was the Arabs in the Middle Ages who transformed chess from a game of eating the opponent's king to a technical and gentlemanly game of checkmates. After that, Europeans who inherited chess have carried on this spirit of chess under the name of chivalry or gentlemanism.

3. The Invention of Type and the Renaissance

Since the end of the Middle Ages, Spanish-style chess has been established as a standardized chess game in Western Europe, such as France, Italy, and England, overtaking the existing Arab-style chatranji. Up until this point, chess was played from one region to another, and the way it was played changed little by little over the years, but Gutenberg's invention of the type and the Renaissance brought about a major change in this trend. The mass of printed books has brought about a revolutionary information revolution, with many people now sharing the same information, not just across regions but across different eras. The rules of chess, which were different in various regions, were gradually unified (at least in Europe) in the French style (=Spanish style), which was the center of European culture at the time, and there was no significant change in the rules of how they were played over the years.

From around the 16th century, many figures such as Lucena and Ruy Lopez of Spain and Grecco of Italy studied chess (mainly the opening) and left them in books, some of which are still being copied.

One interesting fact is that at that time most authors did not publish their own books. As a kind of secret book, only a handful of manuscripts were produced and sold at a high price. With the invention of the movable type, illegal bindings came to the fore. Most of today's books are also pirated copies.

I don't know if these pirated copies caused any financial harm to the authors, but as a result they left their names in history and played a major role in the spread and revitalization of chess.

About the Korea Chess Federation: http://www.kchess.or.kr