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Akshit
Subject: English
, asked on 10/6/19
BBC compacta class 10 , module 1 , unseen passage assignment 6..please answer it. I would be really thankful.
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Ananya Mehta
Subject: English
, asked on 14/12/19
how do coorgs location people and natural features are to the diversity of India
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Angelina Baruah
Subject: English
, asked on 23/2/23
Grief is often seen as a measure of love. Justify your response to Buddha's Sermon. (Sermon at Benares). [Suggest some value points]
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Rubal Budakoti
Subject: English
, asked on 21/12/17
PASSAGE (please answer the following questions)
5. Read the following passage carefully: , (8 Marks)
CHESS Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checker game board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Chess is played by millions of people worldwide, both amateurs and professionals. ?
Each player begins the game with 16 pieces:. one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each of the six piecetypes moves differently. The most powerful piece is the queen and the least powerful piece is the pawn. The objective is to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. To this end, a player's pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, while supporting their own. in addition to Checkmate, the game can be won by voluntary resignation by the opponent. which typically occurs when too much material is lost, or if Checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may also result in a draw in several ways.
Chess is believed to have originated in India, sometime before the 7th century, being derived from the Indian game of Chaturanga. Chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games Xiangqi, Ianggi and Shogi. The pieces took on their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the rules were finally standardized in the 19th century. The first generally recognized World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886. Since 1948, the World Championship has been controlled by FlDE, the game's international governing body; the current World Champion is the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen. FlDE also organizesthe Women's World Championship, the World Junior Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Blitz and Rapid
World Championships and the Chess Olympiad, a popular competition among teams from different nations. There is also a Correspondence Chess World Championship and
a World Computer Chess Championship. Online chess has opened amateur and professional competition to a wide and varied group of players. There are also many chess variants, with different rules, different pieces, and different boards.
0n the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions:
a) What are the things required to play chess?
b)) Name the six pieces which move differently?
c} What kind of power do the queen and the pawn have?
d) How can king be put into Checkmate?
e) What are the other ways of winning a chess game?
f) When did obtaining power to pieces and standardizing rules in chess take place?
g) What is the role of FIDE ?
h) Find a word from paragraph No. 2 that is opposite to the word 'successor?.
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Rahul Sharma
Subject: English
, asked on 24/5/18
Here’s why effective communication is important. In a large organization, when a CEO addresses a live webcast — a must in today’s day and age — even a single question from an employee, no matter how unimportant it might be, will resonate across centres. It then becomes absolutely necessary for the leader to respond in a precise and unambiguous manner and use the platform to deliver his message across to the people. When the spotlight is on the leader, onlookers will hold on to every word he or she utters. Rhetoric can make many a hero. Usage of words chosen to deliver a message is equally important. “Communication is not about company information. It’s more like, if you want to drink water, do I presume you want to drink Coke,” an HR head once remarked. If strategy is important, what’s even more critical is communication of the strategy. One can either be vague and leave it to the imagination of others or be precise without any obscurity. Either way, depending on what the situation demands, it’s a leader’s call and he or she can be sure, people are going to judge. The importance of effective communication is not restricted to the leadership level alone. Companies are looking at innovative and effective ways to communicate with employees and also enable employee-to-employee communication, what one can term as E-2-E. So there are Facebook like tools that are being created to encourage active discussion among employees, irrespective of where they are based. It also ensures any gap in communication is bridged and there are no excuses at that. An engineering company I know uses SMS as a means to communicate with employees. They started this practice even when others were just about warming up to sending mailers to meet their communication needs. Others may take a cue from this and start using platforms like WhatsApp, who knows. The fact is companies are using technology in a big way because they understand that the biggest challenge today is communicating with the Gen-Yers and Gen-Xers. The logic is simple: if the new generation is used to modes like ATM and online shopping, how can archaic communication methods work? Effective communication can work at multiple levels in an organization like training, learning and development, education opportunities, among others. Moreover, in a chaotic world, the only thing that will work is sane communication. If communication fails, organizations rather risk of falling into a trap where ideas emerge from all corners but don’t get executed. So when it comes to people matters, silence is not always golden. 2.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions briefly:
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5. Read the following passage carefully: , (8 Marks)
CHESS Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checker game board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Chess is played by millions of people worldwide, both amateurs and professionals. ?
Each player begins the game with 16 pieces:. one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each of the six piecetypes moves differently. The most powerful piece is the queen and the least powerful piece is the pawn. The objective is to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. To this end, a player's pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, while supporting their own. in addition to Checkmate, the game can be won by voluntary resignation by the opponent. which typically occurs when too much material is lost, or if Checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may also result in a draw in several ways.
Chess is believed to have originated in India, sometime before the 7th century, being derived from the Indian game of Chaturanga. Chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games Xiangqi, Ianggi and Shogi. The pieces took on their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the rules were finally standardized in the 19th century. The first generally recognized World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886. Since 1948, the World Championship has been controlled by FlDE, the game's international governing body; the current World Champion is the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen. FlDE also organizesthe Women's World Championship, the World Junior Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Blitz and Rapid
World Championships and the Chess Olympiad, a popular competition among teams from different nations. There is also a Correspondence Chess World Championship and
a World Computer Chess Championship. Online chess has opened amateur and professional competition to a wide and varied group of players. There are also many chess variants, with different rules, different pieces, and different boards.
0n the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions:
a) What are the things required to play chess?
b)) Name the six pieces which move differently?
c} What kind of power do the queen and the pawn have?
d) How can king be put into Checkmate?
e) What are the other ways of winning a chess game?
f) When did obtaining power to pieces and standardizing rules in chess take place?
g) What is the role of FIDE ?
h) Find a word from paragraph No. 2 that is opposite to the word 'successor?.