Chess Tutorials for Beginners
Wednesday, 1. July 2009
Do you want to play the chess game but do not know how and where to start? This article can guide you to start your first chess game so read on. There are chess tutorials for beginners, intermediate and even advanced chess players. However, in this article, chess tutorials for beginners can be learned.
This is for beginners of chess games. It is a chess tutorial that is meant to teach you the basic rules of a chess game. Chess game is played by two opposing players, the white and black who alternately take turns to make their moves. White is always the first to make a move. At the start of the chess game, each of the players has 16 chess pieces. The white player takes the light colored chess pieces and the black one takes the dark colored chess pieces. The chess pieces are named: King, queen, bishop, rook, knight, and pawn. The game is played with 32 chess pieces all in all on an 8×8 board.
The position of the chess board must be that the right hand corner that is nearest to white must be a light square. Usually the colors of the squares on the board are alternately white and black color but today any distinct colors are used as well.
Basic movements of the chess pieces must also be learned. The pawn is the only chess piece that can move in a limited one direction and that is straight ahead. However, when pawn is moved from the initial position, it can advance up to 2 squares at a time. The pawn capturing move also differs from its usual movement. When capturing an opponent’s piece, it can move diagonally so only the opponent in their diagonal sides can be captured.
The knight is the only chess piece that can leap or jump over the other chess pieces either his own or the opposing pieces. It is the only chess piece that can move in a fixed length – in an “L” shape movement. It occupies the square of its captured enemy piece. The bishop however, can move in a long range diagonally at a time as long as no other chess pieces block its path. It can captures the same way it can move an also occupies the captured square of opponent’s piece.
The rook after the queen is the second most powerful chess piece in the game. It can be moved at one direction at a time either horizontally or vertically at any amount of squares as long as no other chess piece also blocks his path. It can capture the same way it can move also. The queen is the most powerful chess piece, it can move at any direction in any amount of squares as long that no other chess pieces block its path. Same as the rook, bishop, and other chess pieces that it occupies the square of the captured enemy’s pieces.
The King can be moved at one square in any direction at a time. Just the same as the other chess pieces where it can capture in the same way, it moves and occupies the square of the chess piece it captured. The King is the most vital chess piece in the game. If the King is checkmated then the game is over and whoever captures the opponent’s King win the game.
