Top 10 common board games, as well as world tournaments

Mondo Tourism Updated on 2024-01-19

Chinese chess is a representative of Chinese chess culture, which has a long history, is very interesting, and the basic rules are concise and easy to understand. In China, the mass base far exceeds that of Go, which is the most popular chess project.

Chinese chess uses a square checkered chessboard with 32 round pieces and 16 pieces in red and black, which are placed and moved at intersections. The two sides alternate chess, and the side that "checkmates" the opponent's general (handsome) first wins.

Also known as chess, chess has a history of nearly 2,000 years. There are many different theories about its origin, such as originating in ancient India, China, Arab countries, etc. At one time, chess was included as an official sport of the Olympic Games.

Although they are both called Xiangqi, they are completely different from our Chinese chess. The chess board is a square with 64 black and white (dark and light) squaresThere are 32 pieces in black and white (dark and light), with 16 pieces on each side. In the game, three-dimensional chess pieces are used, and the purpose of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king.

Go, one of the oldest chess games in the world, originated in China, called "Yi" in ancient China, has a history of more than 4,000 years, is one of the oldest and most complex intellectual game activities invented by the Chinese nation, can be said to be the originator of chess, the Northern and Southern Dynasties were introduced to Japan through the Korean Peninsula, and spread to Europe and the United States.

Go uses a rectangular lattice chessboard and black and white round chess pieces to play a game, the regular chessboard has 19 vertical and horizontal line segments, 361 intersection points, the two sides of the game take turns to play at the intersection of the chessboard, each time can only be one piece, can not move after falling, the final game with more eyes wins. Because Black has the advantage of making a move, it is stipulated that Black will give White a sticker at the end of the game.

There is no clear record of the origin of backgammon. According to legend, before the "Yaozao Go", backgammon was already popular among Chinese folk. Around the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, backgammon was introduced to Goryeo (present-day Korea) with Go, and later to Japan.

There are two ways to play backgammon. Play 1: Both sides use black and white chess pieces respectively, and play at the intersection of the straight line and horizontal line of the chessboard, and the first to form a five-piece line wins. Play 2: Replace any of the opponent's chess pieces by forming a five-piece connection. The replaced piece can be swapped with the opponent. In the end, the first side to play all the pieces wins.

Othello, also known as reversi, othello, apple or anti reversi.

Othello was invented by the British at the end of the 19th century. It wasn't until the 70s of the last century that the Japanese Goro Hasegawa developed and promoted it, borrowing Shakespeare's famous play Othello to rename the game (Japanese" is the black and white chess that everyone plays.

The game is played by flipping each other's pieces, and finally the winner is judged by who has the most pieces on the board. Its rules of the game are simple, so it's easy to get started, but its variations are quite complex.

Backgammon is a type of Othello.

Black and white (there are also pieces of other colors) fall in turn in an 8x8 square. Black is the first move, and White is the last move. The rule is that each column must start at the bottom of the box. In this way, you can drop a block upwards. After one party falls, the other party falls, and so on. Until the end of the game.

Founded in England in 1880, the English name is halma (Greek "jumping"), the original chessboard was square, with a total of 256 squares, and the pieces were distributed in four corners at the beginning, with the goal of jumping to the opposite corner as fast as possible. It later evolved into the star-shaped chessboard that we now commonly use, patented by a German company, R**ensburger, called Stern-Halma. It became popular in the United States from the 30s of the 20th century, and changed the name of Chinese checkers.

Checkers is a kind of chess that can be played by two to six people at the same time, the board is in the shape of a six-pointed star, the chess pieces are divided into six colors, each color has 6 or 10 or 15 pieces, each player uses a corner of checkers, has a color of the piece, and the piece of their own color jumps to the opposite side first to win.

An ancient board game that existed as far back as the time of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt. The modern international checkers were finalized in the 12th century. In the Louvre Museum in France, there are frescoes of lions and antelopes playing checkers.

The chessboard is a square composed of 100 small squares arranged at intervals between dark and light colors, (i.e., 10 small squares x 10 small squares) The dark small squares have Arabic numerals in the numbers called chess positions, and the numbers are used as chess game records. The chess pieces are cylindrical, with 20 black and white chess pieces, and the surface of the chess pieces is ribbed, and this kind of chess pieces are called "pawns". Flipping a pawn over (or stacking two pawns) is the "king" (the pawn jumps to the opponent's baseline and rises to become "king" or "king"). If the opponent's pieces are eaten up or the opponent has no moves to play, the player wins.

Military chess was born from practice, and the original "military chess" had no fixed rules, not a game, but a "combat simulation". The person who pulled this "war simulation" into the military chess track was von Leswitz. In 1807, von Leswitz invented the rigid kriegspiel, which in 1811 was improved and developed into the kriegspiel, which von Leswitz presented to King Frederick III, who quickly became hooked. From then on, wargames began to become popular in the royal courts of various European countries.

Kriegspiel can be said to be the ancestor of military chess, with a variety of variants.

When there are four people, the four people occupy the four corners on the chessboard and are divided into two sides, and the two opposite ones unite against the other two and cooperate with each other to fight;When two people play, they occupy the upper and lower corners of the board and fight against each other.

There seems to be no relevant clues on the Internet about the age and inventor of the invention of flying chess. The consensus is that he was invented at least after World War II, because it was about flight games.

It is a competitive game consisting of four colors with a graphic of an airplane drawn on it, and up to four people can play together with one color each. There is a dice in flying chess, you just have to turn the dice, and when the dice stop, the face is a number, and you take a few moves. The first to reach the finish line wins.

Go tournaments

The World Professional Go Championship refers to a large-scale Go tournament that represents the highest level of Go with the participation of professional Go players from many countries around the world, including Yingshi Cup, Chunlan Cup, Samsung Cup, LG Cup, Xinao Cup, Dream Lily Cup, Bailing Cup, BC Credit Card Cup, Tianfu Cup, Fujitsu Cup, Toyota Cup, Toyo** Cup, Asian Cup, Central Cup, etc.

Chess tournaments

At present, there are World Chess Championships, Chess World Cups, Chess Grand Slams, Chess Olympiad Team Tournaments, World Chess Blitz Championships, FIDE World Company Chess Championships, World Chess Team Championships, etc.

Checkers

Women's Championships, Youth Championships, Student Championships, Senior Team Championships, Youth Team Championships, Individual European Championships, etc.

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