Power Principles of Chess

Before start to play chess one more lesson.Some points to improve your thinking.

1.Control the Center.

The center of the board includes the squares e4, d4, e5, and d5. When you start a game, place your pawns in the center to occupy and control as many of these squares as you can. Location, location, location!

2. Develop Your Pieces as Soon as Possible.

Get your Knights and Bishops out right away. This should be done before you try to checkmate your opponent, some time in the first 6 or 7 moves if possible.

3. Castle as Soon as Possible

Castle at the very first chance you have in order to keep your king safe. Remember, you can’t win if your king isn’t safe and you get checkmated first. So don’t forget to castle! Then after you castle, connect your rooks by developing your queen.

4. Keep Your Pieces Protected

Don't leave your pieces hanging without protection. Each and every piece you have is very valuable, so don't forget to protect them. Protecting means if your opponent can take your piece, then you can take your opponent's piece.

5. Have Fun and Win with Grace, Lose with Dignity

 
First and foremost, chess should be fun. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, it’s all part of the game. When you win, be a good sport and don’t trash talk or make fun of your opponent. When you lose, be an even better sport and not a sore loser. Shake hands and congratulate your opponent. This will go a long way toward making good friends.

How to Win the Game.

Today I'm going to teach you, how to win this game?

The Ultimate Goal is to trap the Opposite King. We called this as "Check Mate"

1.Check

A player’s king is said to be “in check” when it is attacked by an opponent’s piece. In the diagram above, white’s king is in check because the black rook on a1 is attacking it. Usually, novice players are expected to announce check when it happens in order to be sure their opponent notices the situation. Among more experienced players, many consider it rude to announce a check, as these players expect to notice the check themselves. It is never legal to move your king into check; if you notice an opponent has done so, you should point this out and allow them to make a safe move instead.

If your king is in check, you must find a way to prevent the king from being captured. There are three ways to accomplish this.

Move the King

The first method is moving the king to safety. If the king can be moved to a square where it is not attacked, it no longer needs to fear being captured. In the diagram above, the white king can safely move to f2, g2, or h2, as the black rook only attacks the squares on the first rank.

Block the Check

The second method is blocking the check. This is also known as interposition. In the above diagram, white’s queen can be moved to c1 or e1, where it would block the check from black’s rook. Blocking is not an option when the attacking piece is a knight, as the knight can leap over any interposing piece.

Capture the Attacker

The final method is capturing the attacking piece. In the diagram above, white’s queen can capture the black rook on a1. With the rook off the board, the white king is once again safe.

2.Check Mate

When we attack the Opposite King we call it as "Check", now King has to move or need to guard from his pieces, or capture the attacker, if no any other square to move and no any pieces to block now the position is "Check Mate".

Below figure shows a check mate situation.

The above diagram White King is under attack from Rook at a1.There is no safe square for the King to move also White has no pieces to block the check or capture the attacker.

When you check mate the opposite King the game is OVER.

3.Stale Mate

There is a chance to DRAW the Game also.We called this as "Stale Mate"

A Stalemate occurs when one player has no legal moves, and is not in check. This ends the game immediately as a Draw. 

In the diagram below, it is white’s turn to move. While white’s king appears to be in danger, he is not attacked. However, black’s pieces are attacking every square white’s king could possibly move to. As white is not allowed to move his king into check, and has no other pieces to move, he has no legal moves, and the white king is stalemated. The game has ended in a draw. Note that if it were black’s move, black could win the game by moving his queen to b2. Either move would result in a checkmate. 

Stalemates are common among beginners who have yet to learn basic checkmating patterns. It is important to be careful in the endgame; even the most lopsided game can become a draw because of an unfortunate stalemate.

How to Organise a Chess Board

Hello all,

Today we are going to discuss how to prepare a chess pieces on a board.

The first step in preparing to play a game of chess is making sure the board is set correctly. Look at the square in the lower right-hand corner for each player. This should be a light-colored square. An easy way to remember this rule is the phrase "WHITE ON RIGHT"

Look at this image.

Then place Rooks,Knights,Bishops,symmetrically and then King & Queen. Remember that White King must be on Black square  and Black King on White square.

See this..

There is simple arrangement for lettering & numbering chess board.

One & Only condition is to place pieces on a chess board is on your "Left hand side the first square must be BLACK."

That's all...

For White,

starting from Left Side a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h & bottom to top 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.

This is very easy to understand...

Let's Play now...

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Special Rules-Castling,Promotion & En Passant

1.Castling

There are a few rules in chess that allow pieces to do things beyond their basic movements.

The most common of these rules is castling, a move that is normally used to improve the king's safety. Castling is the only move that allows two pieces to move at the same time - the king and a rook.

Castling can only be done if the following conditions are all present:

• Neither the king nor the rook being used have been moved yet during the game. If either piece has been moved then castling is not allowed, even if the piece is moved back to its original square.
• All of the squares between the king and the rook must be empty.
• The king must not be in check, nor can castling move the king through a square where he would be in check.

If all these conditions are met, castling is done by moving the king two squares towards the rook, while the rook hops over the king, landing on the square next to the king.

This may sound confusing, but in practice it is simple. In the diagram above, the white king and rooks are positioned where they should be before castling. The black kings and rooks are positioned properly after castling.

Castling kingside is more common, and leaves the king on the g-file while the rook moves to the f-file. Castling queenside leaves the king on the c-file, while the rook moves to the d-file.

2.Pawn Promotion

Pawns may be the weakest pieces on the board, but they have the potential to become much stronger. Should a pawn manage to make it all the way to the other end of the board, that pawn must promote to any piece its owner wants, other than a king. Most of the time, a pawn will be promoted to a queen; however, you can also choose to promote to a rook, knight or bishop. Promoting to something other than a queen is known as under promotion. The diagram above shows a pawn from each side preparing to promote.

3.En Passant

En passant (French for "in passing") is probably the most confusing move for novice chess players. In fact, many may not even know the move exists, making it the source of many arguments.

Why does such a confusing rule exist? Before the 15th century, most people played by rules which didn't allow the pawns to move two squares on their first move. When the two square pawn move was added to speed up the opening phase of the game, it was noticed that it was now possible for a pawn to sneak by an enemy pawn on an adjacent file -- something that was never possible when pawns plodded along at one square per move.

The solution was en passant, a move that allows a pawn which has moved two squares to be captured as though it only moved one.

The diagram above illustrates how en passant works. The following conditions must all be present for an en passant capture to be legal:

• The capturing pawn must be on its fifth rank.
• The opponent must move a pawn two squares, landing the pawn directly alongside the capturing pawn on the fifth rank.
• The capture must be made immediately; you only get one chance to capture en passant.

If all those conditions are met, an en passant capture is possible.

In the diagram above, Black's pawn has just moved from c7 to c5, landing it directly next to White's pawn on d5. If White wishes, he may capture Black's pawn by moving his pawn to c6 -- capturing the pawn as though it had only moved one square. 

However, if he chooses not to capture immediately, White loses this option.

The above diagram also shows a second example from Black's perspective. White has just moved a pawn from f2 to f4. Black's pawn on g4 may capture White's pawn by moving to f3 on the very next turn. If Black chooses not to make this capture, he loses the ability to capture en passant.

What are the names & How to move them

The Rook (Value=5)

The Rook can only move along horizontal & vertical path.

The Bishop (Value=3.5)

The Bishop can only move along the diagonals.

The Queen (Value=9)

The Queen is the strongest piece in the board. She can move along horizontally, vertically as well as diagonally.

The King (Value=0)

 The King can move only one square around him.

 The Knight (Value=3)

 Knights can jump over the pieces.He is the only one can jump in the board.

He can move 2 squares along and turn 1 square right or left.As well as 1square along & turn 2 squares right or left.

 The Pawn (Value=1)

 The pawn is the lowest value in the board.When in the first time pawn can move 2 squares but after that he can only push 1 square.Look when he cuts pieces it must do in diagonally.

Chess is a much more funny  game.Please go through it. Hope you will understand how to move the pieces.If there is any difficulty please ask me. I will help you.

Next time will see special rules which include in the Chess Game.

What is Chess?

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.

Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns, each of these types of pieces moving differently. Pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king by placing it under threat of capture ("check") which cannot be avoided. In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by the voluntary resignation of one's opponent, which may occur when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may result in a draw in several ways, and neither player wins. The course of the game is divided in three phases. The beginning of the game is called the opening (with the development of pieces). The opening yields to the phase called the middle game. The last phase is the endgame, generally characterized by the disappearance of queens.

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand from India. In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships. The Chess Olympiad is a popular competition among teams from different nations. Online chess has opened amateur and professional competition to a wide and varied group of players. Chess is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee, and international chess competition is sanctioned by the FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation). There are also many chess variants that have different rules, different pieces, and different boards.