Welcome to Chess Strategies

Chess is a game of strategy and tactics.

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What is a Grandmaster

Grandmaster
Conferred by FIDE, it is the highest title (aside from World Champion) that one can achieve. It is awarded to players who meet established performance standards. Other titles (in order of importance) are International Master and FIDE Master. Once earned, these titles cannot be taken away.

Grandmaster
A FIDE title awarded to the top players in the world. Grandmaster's usually must achieve a FIDE rating of 2500 or more.

Grandmaster
The title International Grandmaster is awarded to world-class chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. It is a lifetime title, in chess literature usually abbreviated as GM or IGM (this is in contrast to WGM for Woman Grandmaster and IM for International Master. Woman Grandmaster, it should be noted, is a misnomer. It is awarded for a level of skill roughly equivalent to that of an FM, or FIDE Master, a lower title than International Master.)

    Chess Strategies

Chess is a board game and mental-skill game for two players. It is played on a square board of eight rows, called ranks, and eight columns, called files, giving 64 squares of alternating colour, light and dark.

Each player begins the game with 16 pieces which can move in defined directions. Chess is a strategy game.