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Chess 
My favourite evening is Wednesday when I go to Chess lessons. Christy Archer teaches us. There is a Chess competition in the Community games and I hope to be on it. Chess is a board game that originated at least as early as the 2nd centuary A.D. It is for two players. Each player has sixteen pieces (1 King, 1 Queen, 2 Rooks, 2 Bishops, 2 Knights and 8 Pawns. The object of the game is to capture your opponent's King. The King is the most important piece and the Queen is the most powerful piece. 
A few previous winners of the World Chess Champions. 
Men 1948 Mikhail Botvinnik (U.S.S.R) 
        1957 Vassiliy Smyslov          " 
        1958 Mikhail Botvinnik        " 
        1960 Mikhail Tal                   " 
        1961 Mikhail Botvinnik        " 
        1963 Tigran Petrosian           " 
        1969 Boris Spassky               " 
        1972 Bobby Fischer         (U.S.A.) 
        1975 Anatoily Karpov      (U.S.S.R) 
        1985 Gary Kasparov             " 

Women 1927 Vera Menchik            (G.B.) 
              1950 Lyudmila Rudenko    (U.S.S.R) 
              1953 Elizaveta Bykova               " 
              1955 Olga Runtsova                   " 
              1958 Elizaveta Bykova               " 
              1962 Nona Gaprindashvili          " 
              1978 Maya Chiburdanidze          " 

                                                                                                                                Michelle  
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