AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): State chess association on Tuesday organised 26th child chess competition at Birendra club. Children’s from different school participated in the competition.

The main aim of the tournament is boosting local player's morale, encouraging building more substantial chess infrastructure, providing more guidance to players and incentivizing their effort to make a career out of this sport and spreading chess throughout among the younger generation.

Tripura is the third smallest state in the country, with one-third population being formed of scheduled tribes. Yet, such is the grandeur of the state, where parents of the state forms up a chess forum for the development of the sport in their culture as chess has proved itself since ages for its good ridden benefits.

Participating players expressed that more such tournaments organising thereby boosting chess as a sport and has always been synonymously used when it comes to mind development.

Chess is believed to have originated in India, some time before the 7th century; the Indian game of chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi and shogi. The pieces took on their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the rules were finally standardized in the 19th century.

The first generally recognized World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886. Since 1948, the World Championship has been controlled by FIDE, the game's international governing body; the current World Champion is the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen.