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1 _____ Chess is called the game of kings. It has been around

for a long time. People have been playing it for over 500

years. Chess is based on an even older game from India. The

4 chess we play today is from Europe. Chess is a two-player

game. One player uses the white pieces. The other uses the

black pieces. Each piece moves in a special way. One piece is

7 called the king. Each player has one. The players take turns

moving their pieces. If a player lands on a piece, he or she

takes it. The game ends when a player loses his or her king.

10 There are a few more rules but those are the basics. Some

people think that chess is more than a game. They think that

it makes the mind stronger. Good chess players use their

13 brains. They take their time. They think about what will

happen next. These skills are useful in life and in chess. Chess

is kind of like a workout for the mind. You don't always have

16 lots of time to think when playing chess. There is a type of

chess with short time limits. It's called blitz chess. In blitz

chess, each player gets ten minutes to use for the whole

19 game. Your clock runs during your turn. You hit the time clock

after your move. This stops your clock. It also starts the other

player's clock. If you run out of time, you lose. Games of blitz

22 chess are fast-paced. Chess is not just for people. Computers

have been playing chess since the 1970s. At first they did not

play well. They made mistakes. As time went on they grew

25 stronger. In 1997, a computer beat the best player in the

world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue.

Deep Blue was big. It took up a whole room. By 2006 a cell

28 phone could beat the best players in the world. Chess sure

has come a long way.

Internet: <www.nortechplus.com>.

Choose the alternative that presents a correct association between a term from the text and its word class.


A

“the” (line 1) — indefinite article


B

“older” (line 3) — comparative adjective


C

“their” (line 8) — possessive pronoun


D

“always” (line 15) — adjective


E

“play” (line 24) — noun