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HISTORY OF HOLDEM
Holdem - an abbreviated term for Texas Holdem,
which is also spelled Hold'em or Hold 'Em - is a community-card Poker variation that is now the most popular
card game in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and other American casinos. It is featured in televised tournaments,
high-stakes competitions around the world and is played in both the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker.
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Most popular poker variants.In Texas Holdem your strategy is to obtain the best hand using any 5 of the 7 dealt cards, whether the combination is your 2 down cards and three table cards, one pocket card and four table cards, or all five-table cards. Any 5-card combination of seven cards is cool. In Omaha you receive four cards, and you must use exactly two of the four cards to make your hand. This means that three of the board cards must be used. There aren't table cards in Draw Poker. Players draw cards after first betting round. There are 2 betting rounds instead 4 in Texas and Omaha. In our game you may choose your favorite betting structure: Limit, Pot Limit or No Limit. In Limit Holdem amount that can be bet is set. These games will be called things like $1/$2 or $10/$20 games. The amount that can be bet pre-flop or on the flop is the first number. On the turn and river, the amount doubles. No Limit Texas Holdem is a game, where bets are grown very quickly and game tempo is much faster too. At any time a player may be forced to wager all of their chips in order to stay in a hand. The results are sometimes disastrous. No limit holdem offers more tools for a skilled player. Pot Limit Holdem is a cross between Limit Holdem and No Limit Holdem. In a pot limit game, players can raise the bet to as much as is in "the pot". If the inability to scare opponents out of the hand has you frustrated, but you are not quite ready to have your entire bankroll on the line at any given moment, perhaps pot limit holdem is for you. |
3C Texas Holdem Screenshots.
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Cards after flop. Click to enlarge. |
End of hand. Click to enlarge. |
ABOUT CHESSChess is an old fascinating game. Approximately 1500 years ago Chess began movement over the World from Persia. 1000 years ago Chess proceeded to conquer Europe. Join to victorious chess army. Please download shareware chess game. If you have downloaded evaluation version,you may register the game to have full access to game features.THE SETUP
The chessboard is made up of eight rows and eight columns for a total of
64 squares of alternating colors. When the board is set up it should be
positioned so that a light square is positioned on the extreme lower right
hand side of the chess board (as you can see, this works for both players).
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The ultimate aim in the game of chess is to win by trapping your opponent's king. (This is called checkmate - more on this later.) White is always first to move and players take turns alternately moving one piece at a time. Movement is required. Each type of piece has its own method of movement (described in the following sections). A piece may be moved to another position or may capture an opponent's piece. This is done by landing on the appropriate square with the moving piece and removing the defending piece from play. With the exception of the knight, a piece may not move over or through any of the other pieces. In tournament play, once a piece has been touched by a player, it must be moved. In sandlot chess this rule is not always strictly adhered to.MOVEMENTS DESCRIPTION
King's Movement
STRATEGY NOTEIt is generally thought to be unwise to bring the queen out too early. The cluttered board makes her more vulnerable to entrapment. The queen's power is so great that she is considered to be worth more than any combination of three other pieces. Thus it would be better, under normal circumstances, to sacrifice two rooks and a bishop (for example) than to give up a queen. Guard the king closely. His loss means loss of the game. He is typically not a good piece to use on offense, but will be a help in a carefully constructed defense.CASTLINGCastling is a special defensive maneuver. It is the only time in the game when more than one piece may be moved during a turn. This move was invented in the 1500's to help speed up the game and to help balance the offense and defense. The castling move has some fairly rigid caveats: It can only occur if there are no pieces standing between the king and the rook. Neither king nor rook may have moved from its original position. There can be no opposing piece that could possibly capture the king in his original square, the square he moves through or the square that he ends the turn. The king moves two squares toward the rook he intends to castle with (this may be either rook). The rook then moves to the square through which the king passed. Castling is a great aid in defensive strategy. It also has a tendency to bring a powerful rook into play when under normal circumstances it might be stuck behind a wall of pawns.EN PASSANTPerhaps the most obscure and least used moves in Chess is called En Passant. It can only occur when a player exercises his option to move his pawn two squares on its initial movement. When this happens, the opposing player has the option to take the moved pawn "en passant" as if it had only moved one square. This option, though, only stays open for one move. The en passant move was developed after pawns were allowed to move more than one square on their initial move. This was done to make sure they retained some of the restrictions imposed by slow movement, while at the same time speeding up the game.END GAMEThe game ends when one of the players captures his opponent's king, when one of the player's resigns or there is a stalemate. When a player's king is threatened by an opposing piece, it is said to be "in check". When a player places the opposing king in check he should anounce, "check". The object of a player is not merely to place his opponent's king in check but to make certain that every square where the king has a possibility of movement is also covered. This is called checkmate. The king is considered captured. Either player may resign at any time. This generally happens when a player loses a major piece and the outlook for victory in his case appears bleak. Stalemate is considered a tie. A stalemate occurs when a player's only move is to place his own king in check, but it's current square is not threatened. As long as he can move another piece or the king can move to an open square, stalemate may not occur. Stalemate also results when the only two pieces on the board are Kings, regardless of their position or the pieces remaining on the board make check mate impossible, for example one cannot checkmate an opponent with only a king and a bishop. When setting up, make sure that the light queen is positioned on a light square and the dark queen is situated on a dark square. The two armies should be mirror images of one another. The light side always moves first. Each player's side of the chessboard is determined by chance. Usually by one player placing a pawn in each hand and closing his fists. Holding forth his fists the opposing player picks one. Whatever color the pawn he chooses is the side he shall command. |