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Welcome to beginners guide to chess. In this guide you will explore wonderful game of chess and how to play it. This is the point in life you will reflect back on as an inflection point, Chess is such a game. It will guide you, inspire you and build courage, resilience to get through life. Lets go!
TOSS
TOSS
Chess is a game played by two players. Proxy names of two players are White and Black representing the colors of pieces. Game is started by White and a toss decides which player gets to play with White pieces. Toss can be done in any method you prefer. In Traditional method, one player hides a White and a Black pawn in either hands and other player gets to points the hand they will pick and if the pointed hand reveals White color, toss is won, they get to pick the color from which they will play, if the pointed hand reveals Black color, toss is lost and opponent player gets to pick the color from which they will play.
FIRST MOVE
FIRST MOVE
White makes the first move to start the game. Chess is played in turns, so after White's move Black gets the turn to make a move, and after Black's move White gets to make a move and turn by turn, one move at a time game continues till only One King survives the battle field.
How Different Pieces Move
How Different Pieces Move
Pawn Movement
Pawn Movement
Lets now explore how foot soldier of Chess Board, the pawns move!
First Move of Pawn:
First Move of Pawn:
One Step
One Step
A pawn can move a single step straight on board in the first move.
First Move of Pawn:
First Move of Pawn:
Two Step
A pawn can also move two steps straight on a board in the first move
How Pawn Captures
How Pawn Captures
Pawn Captures pieces diagonally either on right side.
How Pawn Captures
How Pawn Captures
Pawn Captures pieces diagonally or on left side.
Pawn Promotion
Pawn Promotion
When a hard working pawn manages to fight all the battles on chess field and reaches the last rank, it gets promoted for being a good soldier. A pawn has a choice what it want to be promoted as other than the king, a side obviously can't have two Kings! It can be promoted to be a queen, a rook, a bishop or a knight. Queen is most powerful piece on the Chess board and mostly that's what pawn is get promoted to but sometimes it makes to take other promotion based on the position of game, because effectively purpose of chess game is to defeat the opponent King as a team not gain power on individual piece level.
En Passant Capture
En Passant Capture
En Passant is a weird move. You can probably blame French people for it. En Passant is a French word which means "in passing". Basically a soldier in hurry of passing can be killed is the logic, most likely. We can't be sure what the exact logic is because people who wrote the rules exist in past and can't be contacted anymore. Now lets see how en passant works, For e.g a black pawn on the fourth file can kill a adjacent white pawn if it makes it first move forward to two squares and vice versa a white pawn on fifth file can kill a adjacent black pawn if it makes first move forward to two squares.
The Rook Movement
The Rook Movement
Lets explore how Rook moves!
Rooks can choose to move over as many squares as are empty, to its front, back, left or right in one move. Squares has to be empty, rook can't jump over pieces.
Capture with Rooks
If rook capture another piece on chess board as it moves, it acquires the position of piece it captures.
The Bishop Movement
The Bishop Movement
Lets explore how Bishop moves!
Every player has two bishops, one white square bishop and one black square bishop.
Black square bishop can move on black squares diagonally.
White square bishop can move on black squares diagonally.
Capturing with Bishops: Bishops can capture any piece diagonally and it acquires the position of the piece it captures. Similar to rooks Bishops don't have power to jump over other pieces and can only move in diagonal straight lines.
The Queen Movement
The Queen Movement
Lets explore how queen moves!
Queen is the most powerful piece on the Chess Board. It has power of a bishop and a rook in one piece which makes it so powerful. It moves any number of square it wants in straight lines, it can move diagonally like a bishop, it can move in files and rank like a rook.
You need to be really careful about position of queen, where and how you move it. Its most powerful piece and loosing the queen might end up meaning loosing queen.
How Queen Captures
Queen can capture any piece in its file, rank and diagonal it is in and it acquires the position of the piece it captures.
The King
The King
Center of all the attention and
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