Remember goat is white!

For playing chess the brain’s memory is highly important. Remembering the positions, name of the squares ,color of the squares helps to play the conventional chess as well as the blindfold chess at ease.

 There is a simple technique which is taught during the beginning of the chess classes.

Every beginner is taught the names of the squares.  All the 64 squares have names a1 ,a2  etc … h8. The first square is black which is the bottom left square. Remember ‘Day starts from darkness’.

Give weightage ‘a’ as 1 , ‘b’ as 2 and so on upto ‘h’ as 8.

Let us name a square d4. Which means  ‘4’4. Replacing  ‘d’ as 4.  Sum up the numbers 4+4 =8

The rule ‘Odd is white’. Now we get the sum value as even which is  not white hence black.

Now, check the other square h3. Replace ‘h’ as 8. We get ‘8’3. Sum up 8+3=11. It is a odd number and hence white.

‘ Where is the goat here?’ In Tamil, AAdu  means white, which is pronounced in the same way as odd.  ‘There are only white goats in chess’. Don’t ask me- hey, goats are in different colours . That is how kids are taught to remember. There are different stories for non Tamil people.

Enjoy chess!.