Read the following passage and answer the questions given at end. 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 phone could beat the best players in the world. Chess sure has come a long way. Comprehension Questions: i. What is the author's purpose in writing the second paragraph? ii. According to the text, why is chess a good workout for the mind? iii. How long have people been playing chess and where did the game come from? iv. What is the main idea in the third paragraph? v. Suggest a suitable title to this paragraph.
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Title :Chess
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Answer:
The author's purpose in the second paragraph is to highlight the importance of Chess in a person's life, how the skills used in the game of Chess are useful in reality .
Explanation:
(ii) Chess is a good workout for the mind , they make a person think in limited time what would happen next , this makes mind stronger.
(iii) For over 500 years , people have been playing Chess , it came from Europe. Computers have been playing Chess since 1970s.
(iv) The third paragraph states how technologies were developed to play Chess. For a long time, even Computers could not play Chess , and made mistakes. But with time computers grew stronger and defeated the best player in the world in 1977.By 2006 a cell phone could beat best players in Chess.
(v) "Brainstroming Game of Chess" would be a suitable title for the passage.