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?.