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It is sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. The game is played on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight square. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way to remove it from attack on the next move. The tradition of organized competitive chess started in the sixteenth century and has developed extensively. Chess today is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee. The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; Viswanathan Anand is the current World Champion. Theoreticians have developed extensive chess strategies and tactics since the game's inception. Aspects of art are found in chess composition. Read more ... edit   Selected article of the week Wilhelm Steinitz, who in 1889 claimed chess is a draw with best play The first-move advantage in chess refers to the inherent advantage of the player (called "White") who makes the first move in chess. Chess players and theorists generally agree that White begins the game with some advantage. Statistics compiled since 1851 support this view, showing that White consistently wins slightly more often than Black, usually scoring between 53 and 56 percent. Statistics show that White's winning percentage[1] is slightly lower in rapid games and in games between weaker players. The advantage is about the same, however, for tournament games between humans and games between computers. Chess players and theoreticians have debated whether, given perfect play by both sides, the game should end in a win for White or a draw. Since at least 1889, when World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz addressed the issue, the overwhelming consensus has been that a game of chess should end in a draw with best play. Some players have expressed fears of a "draw death" as chess becomes more deeply analyzed, and World Champions José Raúl Capablanca and Bobby Fischer both proposed chess variants to renew interest in the game. A few notable players, disagreeing with the general consensus, have argued that White's advantage may be sufficient to win: Weaver Adams and Vsevolod Rauzer claimed that White is winning after the first move 1.e4, while Hans Berliner argued that 1.d4 may win for White. It is possible that computers will eventually resolve the debate by determining the correct outcome of a perfectly played game of chess. Read more about First-move advantage in chess... Selected article of last week Selected article of next week Archive of former selected articles edit   News For chess news, see 2011 in sports, the 2011 in chess category, the current sports events portal, or the Wikinews sports portal. Below is the July 2011 FIDE rating list of the top ten male and female players. Elo Men Women Elo 2821  Magnus Carlsen (NOR)  Judit Polgar (HUN) 2699 2817  Viswanathan Anand (IND)  Humpy Koneru (IND) 2614 2805  Levon Aronian (ARM)  Hou Yifan (CHN) 2575 2788  Sergey Karjakin (RUS)  Nadezhda Kosintseva (RUS) 2560 2781  Vladimir Kramnik (RUS)  Tatiana Kosintseva (RUS) 2557 2770  Hikaru Nakamura (USA)  Anna Muzychuk (SLO) 2538 2768  Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR)  Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) 2537 2768  Veselin Topalov (BGR)  Kateryna Lahno (UKR) 2536 2765  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE)  Viktorija Cmilyte (LTU) 2528 2764  Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR)  Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL) 2524 edit   Did you know... ...that Tasman Grandmaster Ian Rogers and Victorian Grandmaster Darryl Johansen, respectively, the first- and second-ever Australian players to attain the Grandmaster title, combined to win nine of the fourteen Australian national championships held between 1980 and 2006? ...that German Grandmaster Robert Hübner and American Grandmaster Kenneth Rogoff sought, during a university team championship in 1972 in Graz, Austria, to draw a game in just one move–a draw was mutually beneficial to the teams each represented–but were ordered by arbiters to continue and so played a series of bizarre moves before once more attempting to draw the game, which was ultimately declared a forfeit victory for Rogoff? ...that Searching for Bobby Fischer, a film based loosely on the life of International Master Josh Waitzkin and featuring cameo appearances by Grandmasters Joel Benjamin and Roman Dzindzichashvili, was voted by the American Film Institute as the 96th-most inspirational English language film of all-time in 2006? edit   Reviewed articles Featured articles A-class articles Good articles Chess Bughouse chess Alekhine, Alexander Lasker, Emanuel First-move advantage in chess Nadanian, Ashot Anderssen, Adolf Milner-Barry, Stuart Gossip, George H. 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