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=Chess Olympiad= The first Chess Olympiad was unofficial and was held in Paris, France, in 1924. The first official Chess Olympiad was held in London in 1927, in which Hungary won overall. However, Chess was only recognised as a sport since 1999.

Rules
Chess is a game that requires an 8 square by 8 square board which contains 64 squares and 32 pieces altogether. The pieces are: 1. The King - this is the most important piece in the game but not the most powerful piece. The aim of the game is to protect this piece. It can move one square in any direction as long as it is not obstructed. 2. The Queen - this is the most powerful piece. It can move in any direction and also as far as a player wants to be as long as it is not obstructed by any other pieces and it cannot go past the boudaries of the board. 3. The Rook - this piece is also known as a castle. It can move only vertically and horizontally and as far as a player wants to be as long as it is not obstructed by any other pieces and it cannot go past the boudaries of the board. 4. The Bishop - this piece can only move diagonally but as far as the player wants it to be as long as it is not obstructed by any other pieces and it cannot go past the boudaries of the board. 5. The Knight - this piece can move in an 'L' shape direction of 2 squares forward and then one square horisontally, compared to the direction of which it moved forward in. 6. The Pawn - this is the most basic piece in the game. Unless it has not moved previously, it can only move one space forward to advance. However, if it hasn't moved previously, then it can move two spaces forward. Chess clocks are used in the competition. The clocks are used to limit the amout of time allowed for a player to think. The standard time is 20 minutes per player. The players must remember to click the switch to stop their timer and start the opponent's timer. The opposition is not obliged to remind the player to press the switch. 7. When a player's time runs out, they lose.

Winning/Losing/Draws
Checkmate is the process of trapping the opponents King and then finally threatening it with capture, which is also known as check if the piece is threatening a King. Winning is the aim of the game. 1. An offer can be made for a draw to occur and the offer can be accepted or rejected. 2. Both players move the same pieces back and forth three times in a row. 3. No pieces are captured and no attempts to capture either Kings are made within 50 moves. 4. One player cannot make any valid moves with any of their pieces
 * Winning** in chess occurs when the opponent forfeits or if the winner has completed checkmate. Forfeits are very rare.
 * Losing** in chess occurs when the player forfeits or the opponent has successfully checkmated the player.
 * Draws/Stalemates** can happen in many ways.

Promotion - This is a move that requires any pawn to reach the opposite side of the board. At that point, the pawn can be changed into either a Rook, Bishop, Knight or a Queen. En Passant - This move is rare and hard to complete. It requires the Pawn of one side to move three squares forward from its original position and an opposing Pawn to move directly next to it. This is done by going drectly behind the opposing pawn and capturing it at the same time.
 * Special moves**

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 * Favourite Team**
 * References**