Jul 25, It means they are 8 of them in the beginning of chess play. And first move is 1. Meaning "short in stature, with a brachycephalic skull. Log In or Join. Forums Hot Topics.
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We'll discuss castling later. When it comes to your chess set, the Knight chess piece is often the defining piece in the set. This piece offers the most chance for variety and uniqueness in a chess set and it is often the piece with the most detail. When it comes to the game of chess, the Knight chess piece is often the favorite piece and most unpredictable piece in the game. Many a game has been ended because of the make-or-break tactics with the Knight.
The Knight chess piece moves in a very mysterious way. Unlike Rooks, Bishops or Queens, the Knight is limited in the number of squares it can move across. In fact, its movement is a very specific movement. The piece moves in a shape similar to the uppercase "L".
Here are the specifics:. Most experts prefer their Knight pieces to be "close to the action". Because of their strange movement, they can often cover weaknesses that other pieces leave. Knight pieces are also best employed near the center of the board and they are often one of the first pieces to reach the center area of the board.
The Knight also has a unique ability to attack another piece without risking being attacked by the same piece aside from other Knights, of course. The Bishop chess piece is easily the most forgotten piece of all the chess pieces.
From the beginners' perspective, the piece cannot do a whole lot to help out your game, considering each piece can only cover half of the board at a time and is quite vulnerable to attacks from straight on. But the bishop does have his place in the game of chess. In most chess sets, the piece is very traditional. It is a tall, slender piece with a pointed tip that has a strange cut made into it.
Usually, the design doesn't change much, unlike the Knight piece, which has a lot of flair in its design. The bishop chess piece is stuck moving in diagonals. Each player starts out with two bishop pieces, each one residing on its own color of square. Between both pieces, you can cover the entire board, but one piece can only cover one half of the board, only the colors of squares it started the game on. Bishops are usually considered stronger pieces toward the end of the game.
Often, though, the pawns make it difficult to use the bishop piece during the early parts of the game. The bishop is considered excellent in defending a castled King, though and can be used to help pin pieces into areas of the board. Most experts would agree, though, that giving up a Bishop is better than giving up a Rook.
Considered the most dangerous and versatile piece on the board, the Queen chess piece is also one of the most important. Unless you are an expert chess player, losing your queen piece can easily be the final blow before falling to your opponent. Most players are willing to sacrifice just about any other piece on the board in order to save their queen.
So why is the queen so important? The queen chess piece is like a combination of the Rook and Bishop chess pieces. Each player starts out with one queen piece although any pawn that makes it to the other side of the board can be traded in for another queen, which is why some chess sets come with extra queens. The queen can move forward or diagonal in any direction. Here are a few notes:. A chessboard consists of 64 squares in a checkerboard pattern.
There are light colored squares referred to as white and dark colored squares referred to as black. There are 8 rows and columns, referred to as the "rank" and "file", respectively. The bottom right corner should be a white square. Setting up chess sets is fairly straightforward. The pieces are set up in an identical manner for both players. The Rooks are at the corners, the Knights are next, and then the Bishops. Remember, the Queen goes on her color. The entire second rank for each player is occupied by their Pawns.
The objective in chess is to checkmate your opponents King, and there are three potential ways the game can end:. First, you can checkmate your opponent. This means that the King is in check under potential attack from an opposing piece and the player can not make any legal move to remove the King from check.
At this point, the game is over and the checkmated player loses. The amount of material on the chessboard is of no concern. Second, you and your opponent can reach a stalemate - the opponents King is not currently in check, but would be force to move in to check with their next move. Because you can never put your own King in check, you would have no legal moves to make.
A stalemate does not mean the attacking player has won. Instead, it is a draw - neither player is victorious. In timed games, each player has a specific amount of time to make their moves.
Once their time runs out, they lose, regardless of the material on the board. That means that you could have only your King legt and deftly avoid mate attempts from an opponent with most of their pieces still on the board and still win the game if your opponent were to run out of time. Castling, otherwise known as the rook and king switch, is one of the more distinguished chess rules, a move that involves the King and the Rook.
If a white pawn is on the fifth rank and a black pawn's first move places it directly next to the white pawn, then the white pawn can capture the black pawn as if it moved just one square.
This rule also works if a black pawn is on the fourth rank and a white pawn's first move places it directly next to the black pawn—in this case, the black pawn may capture the white pawn as if it moved just one square but only for this move!
In the following diagram, Black has just played e7-e5. Since the black pawn moved two squares on its first move and because it is directly next to the white pawn on d5, White can capture the e-pawn with dxe6 but only for one move. So far the pawn doesn't seem too powerful, right? Well, pawns have the unique ability to be able to promote into a knight, bishop, rook or queen! If a white pawn reaches the eighth rank or if a black pawn reaches the first rank, then that pawn gets promoted.
It is up to the player who is promoting a pawn to decide which piece they are promoting to, although most of the time promoting to a queen is the desirable choice. In the image below, we can see that moving the a7-pawn to a8 results in promotion!
Promoting to a queen or a rook will lead to checkmate! In rare instances, underpromotion is best. Underpromotion occurs when a pawn is promoted to a knight, bishop, or rook instead of a queen. In the following position, underpromoting to a knight is the best move because it creates a checkmate! Let's test you to see if you can recognize how the pawn moves.
In the following position, can White's pawn on the c7-square move to c8?
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