Saturday, March 28, 2015
A Week to Remember: Week 15
Ello, blog viewers. I am sadden to inform you that I am not completely able to swim. However, I have an excuse. We are only given 3 days out of the week to swim and I had to miss one of those days because I was sick. We only have 3 days because the freshman had to take the PARCC test and so our schedule had been adjusted to accommodate this test. I am most definitely against standardized testing. I do not believe this testing method is an accurate measurement of ones skill nor intelligence. Down with testing. I am more than a test score. That's all for now. Catch you next week. This is Kiana signing out. Peace.
Monday, March 23, 2015
WYChat: How to move the pieces in chess
WYChat
Hello, my name is Kiana Hobbs. I am a sophomore here at Whitney Young and today I will teaching you how to move the pieces in chess.
So first I will just give you so background knowledge on the game of chess. It is assumed that chess has been around since the 15th century. Chess is strategic game played between to people, who compete against each other to checkmate their opponents’ king. A chessboard contains 64 squares. An 8x8 square, with one side ranging from 1 to 8 and the adjacent side ranging from A to H. Each player receives 16 pieces: 1 King, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 Knights, and 8 pawns. The objective of this game is to checkmate your opponent. Checkmate occurs when the king is being attack, which is a check, but he can not move anywhere, which makes it a checkmate.
Now that you know that stuff let us get to the identities of these pieces. First we will begin with this (show pawn). This is a pawn. It is worth 1 point. Points are not used to determine the winner of a game, but to indicate who may be leading in the game with. Even though a person may be have less pieces than there opponent, they can still win if they try hard enough. So a pawn only moves forward one space on it’s move. However on the pawn’s first move it can either move one or two spaces. That's only on the first move of that particular pawn. A pawn may only move forward, never backwards or side to side. But it only attacks diagonally ( show how it attacks diagonally). Weird, right? So what that means is that if a pawn is here and my pawn is here, I can take this pawn if it is my move ( set up position show pawn taking other pawn). If the pawns are like this ( pawns face to face), you are stuck. No piece can jump over another, with the exception of the knight. So since the pawn can only move forward and take diagonally. Neither pawn can move. The only way either pawn will be able to move is if the other pawn is taken by another piece. Pawns are very powerful pieces. If by chance your pawn makes it to the end of the board, you may exchange that pawn for a different piece, with the exception of another pawn or a king.
And that's all for now about pawns, next is a bishop. A bishop is worth 3 points. Bishops move diagonally along the color they are on. They can move as far as they want, as long as there is no piece blocking their path (show bishop moving). The bishop’s movement is pretty simple so next we will go to the knight. A knight is also worth 3 points. It move in a “L” shape, that encompass 3 squares (show L shapes). It can go 2 then 1 or 1 then 2. A knight is the only piece that can jump over another piece. See ( show knight jumping over piece). So now you try to get from here to here in two moves. Did you get it. You could have either chosen this or this or that. Just remember if your knight is positioned in the center or near it, you should have 8 possible spaces to land on, so look closely ( show the 8 moves). So let's try one more. How many moves does it take you to get from here to here? (Wait 6 seconds and show correct answers). The next piece is a rook. Rooks are worth 5 points. The move horizontally and vertically. They can move as far as they would like as long as there is not blocking their path (show rook movement). Then comes the queen. Queens are worth 9 points. They can move horizontally,vertically, and diagonally. So the queen has the moves of both the rook and the bishop, not the knight. The Queen can move as far as it would like, as long as there is nothing blocking it's way (show queen’s movement). One more piece to go. Last but not least it the king. The king is priceless. If you lose the king, you lose the game. Kings can only move one space in any direction. They have no fancy moves, which is way they have to be protected by the other pieces.
Now that's how you move the pieces in chess. If you want to learn more about chess, search the web. I good site to go is Chess.com. Well that's all for now, this is Kiana signing out. Peace.
Hello, my name is Kiana Hobbs. I am a sophomore here at Whitney Young and today I will teaching you how to move the pieces in chess.
So first I will just give you so background knowledge on the game of chess. It is assumed that chess has been around since the 15th century. Chess is strategic game played between to people, who compete against each other to checkmate their opponents’ king. A chessboard contains 64 squares. An 8x8 square, with one side ranging from 1 to 8 and the adjacent side ranging from A to H. Each player receives 16 pieces: 1 King, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 Knights, and 8 pawns. The objective of this game is to checkmate your opponent. Checkmate occurs when the king is being attack, which is a check, but he can not move anywhere, which makes it a checkmate.
Now that you know that stuff let us get to the identities of these pieces. First we will begin with this (show pawn). This is a pawn. It is worth 1 point. Points are not used to determine the winner of a game, but to indicate who may be leading in the game with. Even though a person may be have less pieces than there opponent, they can still win if they try hard enough. So a pawn only moves forward one space on it’s move. However on the pawn’s first move it can either move one or two spaces. That's only on the first move of that particular pawn. A pawn may only move forward, never backwards or side to side. But it only attacks diagonally ( show how it attacks diagonally). Weird, right? So what that means is that if a pawn is here and my pawn is here, I can take this pawn if it is my move ( set up position show pawn taking other pawn). If the pawns are like this ( pawns face to face), you are stuck. No piece can jump over another, with the exception of the knight. So since the pawn can only move forward and take diagonally. Neither pawn can move. The only way either pawn will be able to move is if the other pawn is taken by another piece. Pawns are very powerful pieces. If by chance your pawn makes it to the end of the board, you may exchange that pawn for a different piece, with the exception of another pawn or a king.
And that's all for now about pawns, next is a bishop. A bishop is worth 3 points. Bishops move diagonally along the color they are on. They can move as far as they want, as long as there is no piece blocking their path (show bishop moving). The bishop’s movement is pretty simple so next we will go to the knight. A knight is also worth 3 points. It move in a “L” shape, that encompass 3 squares (show L shapes). It can go 2 then 1 or 1 then 2. A knight is the only piece that can jump over another piece. See ( show knight jumping over piece). So now you try to get from here to here in two moves. Did you get it. You could have either chosen this or this or that. Just remember if your knight is positioned in the center or near it, you should have 8 possible spaces to land on, so look closely ( show the 8 moves). So let's try one more. How many moves does it take you to get from here to here? (Wait 6 seconds and show correct answers). The next piece is a rook. Rooks are worth 5 points. The move horizontally and vertically. They can move as far as they would like as long as there is not blocking their path (show rook movement). Then comes the queen. Queens are worth 9 points. They can move horizontally,vertically, and diagonally. So the queen has the moves of both the rook and the bishop, not the knight. The Queen can move as far as it would like, as long as there is nothing blocking it's way (show queen’s movement). One more piece to go. Last but not least it the king. The king is priceless. If you lose the king, you lose the game. Kings can only move one space in any direction. They have no fancy moves, which is way they have to be protected by the other pieces.
Now that's how you move the pieces in chess. If you want to learn more about chess, search the web. I good site to go is Chess.com. Well that's all for now, this is Kiana signing out. Peace.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
A Week to Remember: Week 14
Hello, blog viewers. This has been a good week. I'M ALMOST SWIMMING!! It's so amazing I'm slowly but steadily learning how to swim. I know how to front float, back float, bob, kick, and kinda use my arms now. Now all I have to do is put it all together and I will be swimming in no time. Hopefully by my next blog I will be posting "I CAN SWIM NOW". Fingers crossed. Other than that this week was fine. I got an "A" on my trigonometry quiz. Which is a plus. But now we are going over how to graph sine and cosine, which is a bit confusing. However I did some research and I feel more confident on the subject. We have a quiz next week, so wish me luck. That's all for now. This is Kiana signing out. Peace.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
A Week to Remember: Week 13
¡Hola! It has been a good week this week. We've started swimming in gym last Monday, and I am excited about it. I believe this is my year to learn how to swim. Last year my swimming teacher told the people in the shallow end to swim from one end to the other. Does that make sense to you? Well, not to me. Long story short I didn't learn how to swim. However this year I have learned how to float, breathe underwater, and kick, so I feeling confident this year. So that's all for now this is Kiana signing out. Peace.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
A Week to Remember: Week 12
Hello world. It has been a good week. On Monday I could not attend school because I was sick and on Tuesday only Juniors had to go to take the ACT. But that's not the only reason why it was a good week. At work we are making an earring and necklace set in groups. So far my group is doing really well. We sculpted our beads out of green and yellow clay. Our theme is flowers in bloom. The name of the brand is Spring Heat. I came up with that name. It's an awesome, I know. Also our music video is complete. The title is Chicago Bells. Check us out on YouTube. That's all for now. This is Kiana signing out. Peace
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
A Week to Remember: Week 11
Hello this is Kiana again. I'm not feeling so well so I'm going to keep this weekly review short. All this week we have been filming for our english music video. Making a music video is actually funnier than I thought. I did some of the singing and acted in some of the parts. I know the finish product is going to be awesome. So my stomach is starting to keep in, so I am going to end it here. This is Kiana signing out. Peace
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