Chess

  Chess is a logical and interesting battle game.  This section is for the people who do not know anything about chess. Here in this section, we are going to talk about the chess pieces, rules and how to move them and some special moves. Also many more

The introduction

Chess is played by two players who take turns by moving any pieces on the board. The chessboard is an 8×8 grid board with 64 squares white and black whenever you are placing the chess coins check if the white square is on your right. When starting the game white must start.

each chess coin is going  to look like this

their symbols

As you see there is a section in the right those are the values of each piece. A pawn is 1; the knight is 3; the bishop is 3 or 3.25;                   the queen 9;  the king is priceless. there is one pair of rooks for the whites and blacks, one pair of knights for blacks and whites same for the bishops one queen and king and four pairs of pawns.

how to place the coins on the board 

the bishops rooks knights the queen and the king are placed in the first rank from your side and the pawns are in the second rank, a rank is basically the rows and a file is a column.

One more important thing the king should always in its opposite color.Like whites king the black square and the black king on the white square.

how to move each piece and how do the piece capture other pieces

The pawn can move 1 step but when it is the first to move any pawn you can move the pawn two-steps and a pawn cannot move a step back

and a pan capture any piece diagonally if it is next to the pawn diagonally.

and a pawn can’t jump over any piece.

The Rook

The rook moves strait any number of boxes in a file or a rank and it can capture any piece in its way.

and a rook cant jump over ant piece.

The knight

The knight has a special type of moving it moves only in an L shape sideward forward-backward and it only moves three steps front, side or back, and one step right or left. The knight only captures the pieces only on its destination.

capturing…

the bishops

The bishop has no restrictions in distance for each move, but is limited to diagonal movement. Bishops, like all other pieces except the knight, cannot jump over other pieces. A bishop captures by occupying the square on which an enemy piece sits. if the bishop is placed on the black square then it only moves on the black same for the box bishop it doesn’t matter if the bishop is the whites bishop and is placed in the black. lust like rook the bishop captures the pieces in its way

the queen

The queen moves and captures like any piece on the board except the knight.

The king

The king moves exactly one square horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and the king captures the pieces blocking on his way to (safety).

this is one example of how the king captures.

special moves

castling

Castling is done to move your king to safety and bring the rook in action there are two types of castling long castle and the short castle. We do a long castle on the queen’s side and short castle on the king’s side. The king’s side is all the pieces including the king and the queen’s side are all the pieces including the queen.

we can do castling only if you didn’t move your king and rook the king is not checked at all check.

pawn promotion

Pawn promotion happens when  your pawns get to the opponent’s side first rank can prompt to another queen ( it is ok if you don’t have the exact queen you can use any other coin except the pawn) knight rook or bishop

EN Passant capture

En passant is a move in chess. It is a special pawn capture that can only occur immediately after a pawn makes a move of two squares from its starting square, and it could have been captured by an enemy pawn had it advanced only one square.

and if you don’t do it in that move you can’t do it in the game.

Chess  language

there is a certain code  (language) in chess for each piece rank and fie and for each special chess moves first we will learn the code for the pieces

R-Rook; N-Knight; B-Bishop; Q-Queen; K-King (nothing for the pawn you can just write the  moves instead of adding the ‘p’ for pawn)

the ranks and files

on some chess boards, you see numbers on the files and letters on the ranks those are for to move let’s say that you move the pawn to the rank E and file 5 you say E5 and lets you want two move rook to rank F and file 8  you write Rf8 remember that there are letters to A-H numbers 1-8 since the chessboard is an 8×8 grid.

special moves

Capturing- x (ex.Rxf8)

check- + (ex.Q+e6)

check mate- # (ex.R#h7)

Castling-  O-O-O (ex.O-O-O)

pawn promotion-   rank (x) 8=N,Q,R,B (ex.g8=Q;gx8=Q)

(now you can write chess notations when playing a chess game hx6#=Q means pawn promoted to queen checkmate.)