BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.10//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:Network Calendar NAME:Network Calendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:World Chess Day DTSTAMP:20221225T151849Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:337-7-014e54df8e55db0ddedbc25b476240ab@moraga.se ORGANIZER;CN="Julio Moraga":julio@moraga.se DESCRIPTION:\n (A/RES/74/22)\n\n\n\n Throughout history\, games and spor ts have helped humanity to survive times of crisis by reducing anxieties a nd improving mental health. While the coronavirus outbreak has forced most gaming and sports activities to scale down\, chess has demonstrated remar kable resilience\, adaptability and a very strong convening power in time of pandemic.\n\n\n\n Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic\, chess has s een massive growth\, with more players than ever coming together to partic ipate in chess events that are being increasingly held through online plat forms.\n\n\n\n Chess for Sustainable Development\n\n The United Nations re cognizes that sports\, the arts and physical activity have the power to ch ange perceptions\, prejudices and behaviours\, as well as to inspire peopl e\, break down racial and political barriers\, combat discrimination and d efuse conflict\, and therefore contribute in promoting education\, sustain able development\, peace\, cooperation\, solidarity\, social inclusion and health at the local\, regional and international levels.\n\n\n\n Chess is one of the most ancient\, intellectual and cultural games\, with a combin ation of sport\, scientific thinking and elements of art. As an affordable and inclusive activity\, it can be exercised anywhere and played by all\, across the barriers of language\, age\, gender\, physical ability or soci al status.\n\n\n\n Chess is a global game\, which promotes fairness\, incl usion and mutual respect\, and noting in this regard that it can contribut e to an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding among peoples and nation s.\n\n\n\n Chess also offers important opportunities in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Develo pment Goals\, including strengthening education\, realizing gender equalit y and the empowerment of women and girls and fostering inclusion\, toleran ce\, mutual understanding and respect.\n\n\n\n Background\n\n Chess is a t wo-player strategy board game where the aim is to move different types of playing piece\, each with a prescribed set of possible moves\, around a ch equered square board trying to capture the opponents ‘king’ piece. Tod ay there are over 2\,000 identifiable variants of the game. One theory is that an early game similar to chess called Chaturanga originated in Northe rn Indian Subcontinent during the Gupta period (~ 319 – 543 CE) and spre ad along the Silk Roads west to Persia.\n\n\n\n Whilst modern Chess is bel ieved to have been derived from Chaturanga means ‘four divisions’ refe rring either to the divisions of the playing pieces into infantry\, cavalr y\, elephantry and chariotry (pieces which in the modern game became the p awn\, knight\, bishop and rook)\, or to the fact that the game was played by four players. Chatrang\, and later Shatranj\, was the name given to the game when it arrived in Sassanid Persia around 600 CE. The earliest refer ence to the game comes from a Persian manuscript of around 600 CE\, which describes an ambassador from the Indian Subcontinent visiting king Khosrow I (531 – 579 CE) and presenting him with the game as a gift. From there it spread along the Silk to other regions including the Arabian Peninsula and Byzantium.\n\n\n\n In 900 CE\, Abbasid chess masters al-Suli and al-L ajlaj composed works on the techniques and strategy of the game\, and by 1 000 CE Chess was popular across Europe\, and in Russia where it was introd uced from the Eurasian Steppe. The Alfonso manuscripts\, also known as the Libro de los Juegos (Book of Games)\, a medieval collection of texts on t hree different types of popular game from the 13th century CE describe the game of Chess as very similar to Persian Shatranj in rules and gameplay.\ n\n\n\n On 12 December 2019\, the General Assembly proclaimed 20 July as W orld Chess Day to mark the date of the establishment of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Paris in 1924.\n\n\n\n Under the initiative of FIDE\, July 20 has been observed as International Chess Day by chess playe rs around the world since 1966.\n\n\n\n The designation of World Chess Day of the UN will not only recognize the important role of the FIDE in suppo rting international cooperation for chess activity and aiming to improve f riendly harmony among all peoples of the world\, but also to provide an im portant platform to foster\, dialogue\, solidarity and culture of peace.\n \n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190720 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR