What is FERS Colorful chess ?

FERS is a mental challenge, a strategy game for two players, is a very special game because the board is alive, from birth all the functionality of play, generate thousands of amazing levels and game scenarios.

Imagine a chess board, divided into four parts, each of these parties or mini tables have boxes that can be repositioned just before you start playing, but also these boxes can be of different colors, each of these colors defined range of movement of any figure or piece above it, the color decide how to move in the game, we become different figures of chess by the color of the box in which we place ourselves, we move and we become again in another form. It's easier than it looks, but may be complicated enough.

We can set the levels of play, increasing the number of mini tables, combining the configuration of the boxes, increasing the number of colors of the boxes and the number of parts, figures or characters, and the number of players in a game. Surprised?

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How to play Colorful chess ?

FERS is based on the rules of chess, but with some differences, the most important are four:
The first difference is that the Fers board boxes are not black or white, can be of different colors, white, green, yellow, red and blue and before starting the game, can change it's position.
The second is that all piece are equal, with respect to the game, all of them are pawns but depending on the color of the box in which they are, they become a different figure, that is a knight, a queen, a bishop or a rook and move as such.
The third important difference is that the position of the squares of colors may be different, so we always play in different panels, now play in chess boards of 64 squares, but replace the black squares by color boxes. Players can configure, alternatively their half of the board, as a strategy to start the game.
The fourth is that each player decide which of his pawns is the leader, (the King), the game ends when convinced (we checkmate) the opposite Leader.
The other difference is: The movement of the knight has one more movement instead of 1 +2 is 1 +3 or 2 +2, there is no castling, no eating out at a walk and at starting the pawns can`t move two spaces.

Start playing FERS

Start playing, playing with white, it's your turn, you have to color your boxes and see how it your opponent configure his half board, you realize that you can create a unique stage game, it is now when you discover why this form of chess may be the mental challenge of the XXI century, starting the game you see the  response strategies to the game of your opponent, you contemplate a totally organized chaos of variants, that make sense, answering questions in an organized sequence of responses that can cope with the possible opportunities and threats ,while you see two scenarios, your board and your opponent board, you wonder how you could paint your boxes for:

Maximize your opportunities while minimizing my opponent´s.
Building a significant space advantage.
Reduce the time to dominate the table board.
Assess the positions of my boxes to control my opponent before the middle of the board.
Enable the development of my pieces without causing me weaknesses.

Well, you've painted your half of the board, and you decide which are your openings and your strategies ,  you've traveled halfway, the middle game begins, you need to decide which of your figures is the leader, difficult decision, you need take a breath:


How do you defend?

What are my weaknesses?

Did you have a plan, right?

Did you change?

How do I get better?


You decide, you choose your leader, but pleasantly surprised how well your opponent does, you have to move, had it all clear, but you invade the variants:


Discover the pieces to move in the appropriate boxes

Start at one of the two sides

Strengthen or weaken my defense, my opponent's position.

Dominate the center of the board

Well, it seems that everything is clearer now, you change pieces,looking for the lidership, dominate center of board, your defense is enhanced, find the weaknesses of your opponent, you have everything a little clearer and also have a positional advantage or material, you decide to start action because the combinations have more clear:


Dual threats, forks, glasses, double attacks, nailed, convincing (check), X-ray, deviations, overloaded pieces, sacrifices ... etc.

                                                                                                                         

Well, what an adventure, lot of imagination and creativity, now the leader is more active and decisive than ever, the position of figures and boxes now come to a greater value than before, as well as material advantage, but more combinations are important strategies pay attention, dont play fast or too quick. Convinced?

Why FERS, the colorful chess, is the XXI Century mental challenge ?

The possibility to change the boxes, creating lots of game boards, the number of colors used, the election of the Leader and the equal value of the figures, will make Fers, the colorful Chess, probably the more creative and passionate chess variant in history. A game to discover all the cognitive abilities of human beings, in a theoretical framework that exemplifies a society of equality, democracy, opportunity, citizenship and diversity, becoming a prime educational tool.
                                                                   
FERS, like others universal game is very easy to start playing with a short time learning, but you can configure the thousands of levels of play, becoming a great way to find fun with great mental challenges.

The first time you play in a competition board (8 x 8) of Fers, Colorful chess, you have a sense of chaos, complexity, infinite positions and variations, but magicly, when you play several times , You have deeper view, now the board, is a creative and interesting mosaic of opportunities for play, is a combination of variants and winning positions, you see clearly how to define your strategy, you know what to do and how to begin. Want to play?

Why FERS is the name of Colorful Chess?

The Queen, in the Classical Chess, also called FERS, it has not been easy, in the beginning there was, instead, next to the King, was the vizier or Firz, counselor, a figure with little capability to move.

Throughout the centuries, this figure has been changing, this change was not immediate, culminated in Spain during the Renaissance, when women finally began to gain some prominence, when Queen Isabel the Catholic, allowed the Chess Queen the power of personality and movement that now has in normal chess, is from the time when chess started to improve even more in structure, agility of movement, thus extending the game situations and strategies.

This metamorphosis into a woman suffered our vizier, the development of power, distinction and recognition, dignity to each and every one of the women in our history, that's why what Chess of Colors, exemplify their efforts, their sacrifice and their work, staging the game a model of equality of rights, responsibilities and opportunities.

FERS, the colorful chess and cognitive habilities

Perhaps education should teach us to think, to discover how to use the mind in the most effective way, a way that allow us, since childhood, to obtain more good things of life and offer more to all people around us. The Colorful chess allows us to learn and increase our thinking habilities, we know that intelligence, in its deeper definition, involves more than the ability to solve abstract problems or IQ (intelligence quotient), the ability to respond questions of an IQ test is not enough, although we know about the genetic component of the intelligence, we can not stop here, intelligence, as argued by many scholars, and from the Fers, we join with the broader definition, we define intelligence as a group of skills that allow us to:

 Solve problems with valuable solutions

Know ourselves better

Know and interact better with the world around us

Achieve the goals and interests that make us happier

Develop major products in our community.

In short, the intelligence is an interaction between biological ties and opportunities for learning, Fers      is a                   transformervehicle that stimulate to solve problems, an educational tool, where learning withplayful situations to cope better with life. We need to transfer everything he learned in a game andrelate it to life is not so easy, this is the cornerstoneof education, learning to learn, not us who providethe solution to school failure, but no doubt from theChess of Colors, we can help the student abstractsand internalize metacognitive skills and try totransfer them or use them in their own learning.

In Fers, The Colorful Chess, we use methodological processes of thinking and we try the student transfers those processes to other areas of knowledge, many people play this game, but the effect on their intelligence will always be personal and unique.We assume that the act of thinking is free and unlimited, and we can say that is the only thing that made great to human beings.

What are we talking about? We talk about:

Make decisions, understand defeats, solve problems in a structured and creative, order, classify and allocate resources, manage threats positively, select attributes and organize them, plan orderly in short and long term, working and cooperating in a group with a common goal , define objectives, responsibilities, learning to help, calculate probabilities, evaluate opportunities, develop questions as a source of answers and solutions (cause and effect), extract critical solutions, learn from mistakes, look for options to differentiate the important from the urgent, recognize patterns, sacrifice to get the initiative, overcome prejudice, finding key situations, resolve conflicts assertively, make commitments, realize the vulnerability and invincibility, manage risk, get short-term and long-term memory,  differentiate from stable and changing realities... etc.

Quizás el Fers, el Ajedrez de Colores ayudará a convertir a nuestros niños y jóvenes de la era digital, de esta era conceptual, a sobrevivir y a prosperar en este nuevo mundo que emerge.