Chess Learning from absolute beginners # From Grade R & Adults
Chess learning from the beginning - Start from how the pieces moves.
Saturday 11 April 2020
Tactics in chess
Sunday 5 January 2020
Special moves in Chess
Special moves
1. Pawn promotion
• If a pawn successfully reaches the 8th
rank or …..rank is promoted to a piece
• To any other 4 pieces that is: Rook, Queen, Knight or Bishop only.
• BUT not the King and should not remain a
pawn once at the end.
• Most chess players want the promotion to
be the queen, why?
• When a pawn reaches the rank
furthest from its starting position.
• Replace the pawn with another piece and should be on same square for a new piece of the of the same colour.
• Pawn promotion normally occurs in the
endgame why?
• You can have 9 queens on the chess boards that is if all pawns have been promoted
Practice pawn promotion click here!
2. En passant
• En passant is a pawn move
• En passant French - in passing
• is a special pawn capture
• only occur immediately after a pawn
makes a move of two squares from its starting square
• That pawn could have been captured by an enemy
pawn had it advanced only one square.
Practice En passant click here!
3. Castling
• Involves the King and one of the rooks
• Kingside of queenside
• King and Rook involved should be on its
original position
• Nothing in between them
• Procedure- move the King 2 squares
towards the rook then the Rook jumps over to the other side of the King
• You cannot castle if the king or rook has already moved during the game.
• You cannot castle
if the King is in check or would pass
through check
• You cannot castle if the King
will be in check at the end
of the move
4. Stalemate
• The King is not IN CHECK but its his turn to move
• He has no moves with his king which do
not put him into CHECK.
• no other pieces to move.
• The King cannot move anywhere, - this
position is a DRAW.
Check & checkmate
What is check & Checkmate
1. Check
• you can win or lose a real game of chess.
• The King is an important piece
• A threat to it is also important
• When the king is threatened, we call it
a Check!
• A King is not allowed to be captured
• If the King is in check you must attend
to the threat before you do anything.
• It becomes an illegal move to leave the
King in check
• When in check you have 3 options – Block,
run away or capture
• You cannot stay in check
• + is a sign which represent check when
you are writing down the moves (notating)
Click where it is blue to Practice checking !
You have 3 options to get out of check. Run away, capture the piece attacking the King or block the piece attacking the King
Click where it is blue to practice Getting out of check
2. Checkmate
• If you cannot do the 3 options when you are in check that
means it will be Checkmate
• King cannot escape
• It means the King have been trapped
• Means the game is over!
• If your King have been checkmated you
have Lost the game.
• Aim of chess is to trap the enemy King
Click where it is blue to practice checkmating!
Opening principles
Best recommended way of opening in chess.
• Develop your pieces.
• Open through the centre pawn
• Don't make too many pawn moves.
• Don't bring your queen out too early.
• Don't move the same piece twice.
• Castle early. Though all based on
opponent’s play
• Develop towards the centre. ...
• Clear the back rank and connect your
rooks.
How chess pieces move
How pieces move
1. Pawn
• start in front of the other pieces. #
2nd rank for White or 7th rank for Black
• It moves forward only
• It moves forward only
• 8 pawns at the beginning for each team
• Only moves forward
• Cannot move backwards
• One square at a time
• However, they are allowed to move either
1 or 2 squares forward only on their first move
• It moves 1 step at a time
• can move 2 steps only at the beginning and thereafter 1 step at a time.
• can move 2 steps only at the beginning and thereafter 1 step at a time.
• Cannot be advanced if the square ahead is
blocked by another piece
• Captures diagonally
• The power of the pawn is in promotion
• Once it gets to the last rank it becomes any other piece besides a King
• The power of the pawn is in promotion
• Once it gets to the last rank it becomes any other piece besides a King
• Only piece which captures differently
from the way it moves
• It have a special move called en passant which will be covered under special moves
• It have a special move called en passant which will be covered under special moves
Click where it is blue for Pawn video click here How the pawn moves
Click where it is blue to practice how the pawn moves
2. Bishop
• It moves
DIAGONALLY as far as it likes & in straight lines only
• North, East
and North West, South East and South West.
•Backwards,
forwards as many squares as they like
•Their track
should be clear and cannot move beyond a piece
•If on
white/light squares that BISHOP will move on white/light only diagonally.
• A BISHOP that
starts on a WHITE SQUARE stays on a WHITE SQUARE all its life.
•And a BISHOP
that starts on a BLACK SQUARE stays on a BLACK SQUARE all its life as well. “
•It captures
the way it moves
** Cannot
jump
Click where it is blue for How the bishop moves click here
Click where it is blue to practice how the Bishop moves
3. Knight
• KNIGHTS
are very different
• Its
move is like the capital letter L (not a cursive one)
• Side
step, step or 2 square in 1 direction and then 1 square sideways. try the way you understand it. Tricky?
• Any
direction sideways, forwards or backwards
• It
captures the way it moves
• If we
place the Knight on e4 how many squares can it go to?
• it
always moves to a square of a different colour
Click where it is blue to practice how the Knight moves
4. King
• moves just one square at a time in any
direction.
• If you trap the enemy King you win the
game. # Checkmate
• if your King gets trapped you lose the
game.
• A KING CANNOT move to any ATTACKED
square by an enemy piece.
• you CANNOT move the KING to an attacked
square as this becomes an illegal move # Check
• If you play an ILLEGAL MOVE you have to
take the move back and play another move instead.
• NEVER allow Kings to STAND NEXT TO EACH
OTHER!
• If you make a mistake and move your KING
to an attacked square your opponent CANNOT take your KING.
• you have to go back and play a different
move instead.
• you CANNOT make any move that allows
your KING to be captured.
5. Rook
• Other
prefer to call it a castle but we in chess we call it a Rook
• It moves in a straight line along the
board
• backwards, forwards or sideways as far
as it likes.
• Long range piece
• Moves along files and ranks as well
• Rooks captures the way they move
• Cannot jump over other pieces
• If there's another piece of the same
colour in its way it cannot move beyond that square.
• If there's an enemy piece in its way it
can capture it but it cannot move any further.
Click where it is blue for how the Rook moves
Click where it is blue to practice how the Rook moves
6. Queen
• most powerful piece on the chessboard.
• Moves along ranks & files
• Moves as many squares as she likes in
any direction
• Cannot jump over other pieces
• Captures the same way she moves
• Can do everything a ROOK can do.
• Can do everything a BISHOP can do.
• # Rook & Bishop combined
• It moves like a Bishop as well as a Rook
Click where it is blue to practice how the Queen moves
Friday 30 August 2019
Setting up the chessboard and the values of the pieces
1. Setting up of the chess board at the beginning
Remember white moves first!
Click here for setting up the chessboard!
2. Piece value
We also allocate values for the pieces in chess click here to learn more!
Tuesday 20 August 2019
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