Notice that when you castle one direction the king is closer to the side of the board. That is called castling kingside. Castling to the other side, through where the queen sat, is called castling queenside. Regardless of which side, the king always moves only two squares when castling. This happens when the king is put into check and cannot get out of check. There are only three ways a king can get out of check: move out of the way though he cannot castle!
If a king cannot escape checkmate then the game is over. Customarily the king is not captured or removed from the board, the game is simply declared over. Occasionally chess games do not end with a winner, but with a draw.
There are 5 reasons why a chess game may end in a draw:. The players may simply agree to a draw and stop playing. There are not enough pieces on the board to force a checkmate example: a king and a bishop vs. A player declares a draw if the same exact position is repeated three times though not necessarily three times in a row.
Fifty consecutive moves have been played where neither player has moved a pawn or captured a piece. Many tournaments follow a set of common, similar rules.
These rules do not necessarily apply to play at home or online. If a player touches one of their own pieces they must move that piece as long as it is a legal move. Introduction to Clocks and Timers.
Most tournaments use timers to regulate the time spent on each game, not on each move. Each player gets the same amount of time to use for their entire game and can decide how to spend that time. If a player runs out of time and the opponent calls the time, then the player who ran out of time loses the game unless the opponent does not have enough pieces to checkmate, in which case it is a draw.
There are four simple things that every chess player should know:. Get your king to the corner of the board where he is usually safer. You should usually castle as quickly as possible. There is an easy system that most players use to keep track of the relative value of each chess piece:. A pawn is worth 1. A knight is worth 3.
A bishop is worth 3. A rook is worth 5. A queen is worth 9. The king is infinitely valuable. You should try and control the center of the board with your pieces and pawns.
If you control the center, you will have more room to move your pieces and will make it harder for your opponent to find good squares for his pieces. In the example above white makes good moves to control the center while black plays bad moves. In the example above white got all of his pieces in the game! Try and develop all of your pieces so that you have more to use when you attack the king. Using one or two pieces to attack will not work against any decent opponent.
Knowing the rules and basic strategies is only the beginning - there is so much to learn in chess that you can never learn it all in a lifetime! To improve you need to do three things:. Just keep playing! Play as much as possible. You should learn from each game — those you win and those you lose. If you really want to improve quickly then pick up a [recommended chess book]. There are also many resources on Chess. Everyone loses — even world champions.
As long as you continue to have fun and learn from the games you lose then you can enjoy chess forever! How To Play Chess. History of Chess The origins of chess are not exactly clear, though most believe it evolved from earlier chess-like games played in India almost two thousand years ago. The game of chess we know today has been around since the 15th century where it became popular in Europe. The Goal of Chess Chess is a game played between two opponents on opposite sides of a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors.
Starting a Game At the beginning of the game the chessboard is laid out so that each player has the white or light color square in the bottom right-hand side. How the Pieces Move Each of the 6 different kinds of pieces moves differently. The King - The king is the most important piece, but is one of the weakest. The Queen - The queen is the most powerful piece. The Rook - The rook may move as far as it wants, but only forward, backward, and to the sides.
The Bishop - The bishop may move as far as it wants, but only diagonally. The Pawn - Pawns are unusual because they move and capture in different ways: they move forward, but capture diagonally.
Promotion Pawns have another special ability and that is that if a pawn reaches the other side of the board it can become any other chess piece called promotion. To make it easier to remember how a knight moves think of an L. Two spaces in a direction forward, backward or side-to-side, and one space at a right turn.
The king can move in any direction, one square at a time. A king cannot move to a square that is under attack by the opponent. Castling is the only move that allows two pieces to move during the same turn. During castling a king moves two spaces towards the rook that it will castle with, and the rook jumps to the other side. The king can castle to either side as long as: 1.
The king has not moved. The king is not in check. The king does not move through or into check. There are no pieces between the king and castling-side rook. The castling-side rook has not moved.
It does not matter: A. If the king was in check, but is no longer. If the rook can be attacked by an opponent's piece before castling. En passant is a special movement for pawns attacking pawns.
It only applies if your opponent moves a pawn two spaces, and its destination space is next to your pawn. You can take the opposing piece by moving forward-diagonal to your pawn's attacked square. A king is in check when an opponent's piece is in a position that can attack the king. A player must move their king out of check, block the check or capture the attacking piece. A player cannot move their king into check.
Putting an opponent's king in "checkmate" is the only way to win the game. A king is in checkmate if it is in check, the opponent's piece that has the king in check cannot be captured, the check cannot be blocked, and the king cannot move to a square that is not under attack.
In the illustration the white queen has the black king in check, and all of the spaces where the king can move can be attacked by the queen.
The king cannot take the queen, because the knight is protecting the queen. The black bishop cannot block the queen. This is checkmate. Simply put, a "Stalemate" is a tie. It is achieved if there are no legal moves for a player to make. In this illustration it is white's turn. All spaces around the king are being attacked, but the king is not in check, therefore it cannot move. The only other white piece, the pawn, is blocked by the king.
Because movement is impossible, the game is a stalemate. If white had another piece somewhere on the board that was not blocked, it would have to move. The game would continue. Chess is an incredibly complex strategic game, and it is impossible to go into all of the possible tactics one could use to win.
However, I wanted to leave the new player with a few hints that will hopefully aid in victory. Piece Value: Obviously you want to protect your pieces from capture, but it helps to know which pieces are the strongest so you can decide who to save if you must choose between two.
Pawns become more valuable as they near promotion. Pawn Promotion: Although a pawn can be promoted to a variety of pieces, the strongest choice is almost always to promote to queen. Board Control: When building defenses, remember to look at the board and gauge how strong you are in certain areas of the board. Try an keep power distributed fairly evenly, and bring pieces over to add strength if you see an attack coming. When attacking, it's a bad idea to let any of your pieces become cut off from your main force.
I find it helpful to have a support piece in mind when making an attack. Using pieces in tandem almost always yields a better result than using one piece alone. So now you know the basics. Go get a board an play! No one around? Natwarlal is a good, free chess program.
However, there are tournaments where you can win cash prizes. You can even watch grandmasters play. Question 3 years ago on Step 7. Answer 8 weeks ago. Answer 10 months ago. Answer 1 year ago.
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