Learn  how to play chess for beginners.

Every once in a while we go buy a new chess board out of our excitement , but don't exactly know how  the pieces actually move  or the basic  and some special rules we might not know , so in this blog I've got you the rules and by knowing these rules you will  be able to play the game without any hesitation that whether you played the right move or not .

 

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Objective :- Objective of the game is to checkmate the king .

Pawn :- 

Pawn always starts with straight in the beginning with 1/2 square steps it can move upto 2 squares when it's the first time it's being moved  and after that it can only move once in straight line and capture pieces diagonally . 

King :-  King can only move one step at a time and in any six squares around it.

King has to move while check or capture a piece to escape from check .

Queen :- Queen is the most powerful piece on the board and that's why most players loose / win mostly because of it . Queen can move in any direction just like king but can go long unlike king who can just take a step at a time .

Knight :- Knight is the only piece which can jump over other pieces and moves 2 squares forward or  backward  or on sides and then left or right square ot those squares . 

Bishops :- Since there are 2 bishops for a player , one bishop is on white and one black and they both can only move diagonally as far as they want . And none of the pieces of bishops on white or black can be on black or white square respectively and vice versa.

Rook:- Rooks are really simple yet more powerful  pieces on board they only move straight and sidewards unlike bishops which move diagonally  and can go as far as you them to go .

Special rules :- 

1)En passant :-  This rule can only be applied to pawns , this rule is special as I said earlier that pawns can only capture diagonally , but here when the opponents pawn has been moves 2 squares and is placed beside your pawn then your pawn can capture that pawn and be placed on your diagonal .

2) Castling :-  Castling  happens when your king jumps 2/3 squares on rook's side   and rook jumps over the side of king by 2 squares . This can happen only when :-

1) King has never moved 

2)  The rook which was supposed to be castled with is not moved before .

3)The king and rook have empty space between them and that empty space is not being in check after castling .

4) King is not in check at present .

Check  and checkmate  :-  Check happens when opponents warns of capturing the king or simply put king is in  danger  because the whole point is to capture the king the entire game . And the game can only be won by giving checkmate to the opponent , checkmate happens when king cannot move to a safe place and is being attacked at the same time.

 

Stalemate :-  Stalemate happens when the king is not  being attacked but at the same time it has no safe place to go and this what ends up in tie or if the checks happens at the positions of the square by the same pieces 3 times , a threefold repetition ends the game in draw .

Now you know all the rules and now you are ready to checkmate your opponent  , then there is no substitute to practise  and if you want to know strategies and gambits stay tuned on this blog because I'll be posting tips ans tricks for you very soon .

P.S:- Comment down below what do you think about this blog and if you want to know to set up a chess board  then check out my recent blog Chess board set up