ÇATURANGA

Çaturanga is the father of chess. It was started to play in India in AD 600. Çatur's mean is four and anga's mean is part. In India, Indian army had four parts which was infantry, elephant, cavalry and chariots. So Indian people gave this name. In 625, çaturanga was played in Persian and Persian people changed its name as çatrang. 25 years later, Arabian people met and loved this game and gave a different name that was 'şatranç'. After that, this game had been continiued to spread other countries. In that period, when its name was changed, its rules were changing a little bit. Movement of çaturanga's pieces is closely the same with movement of chess' pieces. All of them have strategical movement and have a lot of benefits for human. For example,

• Chess teachs obeying the rules, playing friendly, admiting defeat and congratulating the winner.
• Chess improves the self confident of player.
• Chess affects the human's personality positively.
• Chess shows the importance of being planned.
• Chess helps thinking quickly and rightly.

The first formal chess tournament was made in England in 1851. Nowadays, the best chess player is Kasparow. In 1996, he played chess against computer and he won. Then the program was improved and Kasparov played chass with computer again in 1997. The result of this, computer won. That was the first game which Kasparow lost against the computer.

I love playing the chess. It is very exciting and strategic game. I have been playing chess since i was 6 years old. I played my first game against my father and i lost. But i enjoyed and liked it. I hadnt won my mother and my father since i was 11. Then i had played at tournament in my primary school and i was choosen champion. Unfortunately, at high school, i didnt attemp the tournaments of chess. Sometimes, i play chess with computer.