The Word Chess

By Dr George Ho

The Word Chess is an educational and recreational multi-player game. Its main objective is to help the players, especially students at secondary and high schools, to remember and learn new English vocabulary by playing game. Beside English vocabulary, The Word Chess game also promotes other mental qualities such as Memory Improvement, Concentration, Observation, Analysis, Logic, Perseverance.

From a Letter string on the chessboard, the essential of The Word Chess game is to extract and transform a group of letters with all their copies, called Letter word, into an English Word containing at least three letters. The transformation may include the rearrangement of letters, the deletion of redundant letters, the addition of letters already present in the Letter word.

The player who finds a Letter word in a Letter string takes all the letters of the Letter word out of the Letter string. The total number of letters in the taken out words will decide the ranking of the players after the game finishes.

The author wishes The Word Chess will soon become a popular game in all secondary and high schools in Australia and around the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Mar 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664104303

Dr George Ho

Dr George holds a Bachelor of mathematics (1965) and a Doctorate es Sciences (March 1975) at the University of Sciences in Saigon, Vietnam. He spent 7 years in high school teaching mathematics for Year 12 students (1962-1969). He came to Australia in 1980 and finished the Graduate Diploma in Data Processing with Distinction at the NSW Institute of Technology, Sydney, in 1982. His last position was as a project leader at the Credit Reference Association of Australia (CRAA). He retired in 2006.

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To my children, H.T.M. Tâm, H.H. Hiệp, H.H. Trí, H.T.M. Châu.

In memory of my beloved parents, H.V. Giá, T.T. Tòng.

H.V. Hoà

CONTENTS

Preface

Same Author

Chapter 1 The Word Chess Components

Objectives.

Chess Pieces.

50 Letter chess pieces:

20 Black separating chess pieces:

Chessboard.

Example of Chess pieces on the Chessboard

How does a Word Chess game start?

How does a Word Chess game finish?

How to rank the players when the game finishes.

The English Dictionary.

Chapter 2 Definitions and Conventions

1.1   Letter string

2.2   Letter in a Letter string

2.3   Copies of a letter in a Letter string

2.4   Letter word

Chapter 3 The Word Chess Rules

Rule 1 - Taking out one Letter word only

Rule 2 - Moving then Taking out

Chapter 4 Practising Word Chess Games

Word Chess Game 1

Word Chess Game 2

Word Chess Game 3

Word Chess Game 4

Word Chess Game 5

Word Chess Game 6

Word Chess Game 7

Word Chess Game 8

Word Chess Game 9

Word Chess Game 10

Word Chess Game 11

Word Chess Game 12

Word Chess Game 13

Word Chess Game 14

Word Chess Game 15

Word Chess Game 16

Word Chess Game 17

Word Chess Game 18

Word Chess Game 19

Word Chess Game 20

Chapter 5 WORD CHESS in competition

Word Chess in competition – Game 1

Word Chess in competition – Game 2

Word Chess in competition – Game 3

Word Chess in competition – Game 4

Word Chess in competition – Game 5

Conclusion

About the Author

Preface

The Word Chess is a multi-player educational and recreational game played on 50 letter chess pieces:

3A, 3E, 3I, 3O, 3U, 2Y,

2B, 2C, 2D, 2F, 2G, 2H, 2L, 2M, 2N, 2P, 2R, 2S, 2T,

1J, 1K, 1Q, 1V, 1W, 1X, 1Z

and 20 black separating chess pieces.

The Chessboard is made up of eleven vertical and eleven horizontal lines creating 100 small squares where the chess pieces can reside in. The places limited by two consecutive horizontal or vertical lanes are called lanes.

A letter chess piece can move freely on any horizontal or vertical lane provided other chess pieces do not obstruct it.

The black separating chess pieces and the borders of the chessboard limit the Letter strings of letters to be considered.

Examples:

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The objective of the Word Chess game is to extract the letters, in any order, from the Letter strings, which can help build English words based on the following basic concepts:

1) A letter in a Letter string represents its presence, not its number, in the string. In other words, a letter in a string represents any copies of it in the string.

Example: Letter string ‘TEAL’ is the same as ‘TEALELA’.

2) Many copies of a letter in a Letter string represent the presence of this letter, not the number of its copies, in the string.

Example: Letter string: ‘BEYAA’ is the same as ‘BEYA’.

3) A Letter word is a collection of letters extracted from a Letter string that can be transformed into a valid English word. The transformation may be the rearrangement of the letters, the deletion of redundant letters, the addition of letters already present in the Letter word.

Note 1: The Letter words are the words to be taken out in a Word Chess game.

The Letter word must contain all copies of its letters.

Note 2: The accepted English words must have at least 3 letters.

The player who finds a Letter word in a Letter string