I don’t know the reason why you’ve decided to learn to play chess. I can only guess that either you are curious about the game or you’ve probably played with your friends and lost miserably ,Or maybe you just want to learn new interesting things,whatever it may be this article will give you a base to start with the BATTLE BOARD.

Chess is a fun game with relatively easy to learn rules. It helps you become more patient. After all, this is a game that relies on the mind’s ability to find solutions to problems.Its battle on a board,but a patient one.The game is played between two opponents.

Begining from the root,it requires

• A square shaped board divided into 64 squares alternatively colored in black & white;
• 32 pieces: 16 white pieces for one player and 16 black pieces for the other player.

The chess board is placed in between the two opponents in such a manner that each of them has a black square on the left corner of the board. Both players start off with an identical set of 16 pieces: 8 Pawns, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights , 2 Bishops, a Queen and a King.

Certain Rules

· Each player must move one piece at a time. So, in fact, the game is played in a succession of moves.

· Each piece moves after a certain rule, from one square to another

· Game always starts with the player having the white pieces, making the first move

· Some pieces are more important than others depending on their range of action and their value; for example: the queen is the strongest piece on the board because it has the greatest range of action while the king is the most important piece because it is the main piece targeted by the enemy attack. Similarly Knight can jump over another piece in a certain way.

A player can capture a piece; he takes that piece outside the board and move his own piece in its place.

Aim of a game:

The game revolves around attacking the other side’s king. When a king is under the threat of being captured it is said that the king is in check. When a king is in check it must be moved otherwise it risks being captured. The objective of each player is to Checkmate his opponent. That means bringing the enemy king in such a position that when attacked it has no available square on which to move. When a player checkmates his opponent king he wins the game. There are times when both sides can’t win the game. In this case the game ends at equality and it is said to be a draw.

With this the ROOT ends,Now to a bit professional side of the game,

NOTATIONs:

Notation is an important way of playing professionally.
It comes under the heading how to play chess in a technical way.A chess board consists of rows and columns, or (RANKS & FILES).Each rank is designated (from 1-8) and each file is designated (from a-h).

The board shows ranks and files,and a coins’ movement is noted on the basis of this rank and files.a1 is first row first column,similarly h8 is row 8 ,column 8

Now notations for each movements

1. + check

2. ++ double check (the king is simultaneously checked by pieces)

3. =/ check mate

4. X or : capture

5. ! Good move

6. !! Excellent move

7. ? Bad move

8. ?? Very bad move

9. = Game is equal

How to record a move??

This i will explain with the help of an eg:

The fig shows a chess board in which the white pawn and black pawn had made a movement.It can be recorded like e2-e4 d7-d5.Hope that clarifies the way of recording a game,atleast to a small extend

Three phases of the game:

1. Opening
2. Middle game
3. End game

In the opening every player must try to gain a position in the board,and simultaneously prevent the opponent from doing the same.

The middle game is as important as opening and end,where we must try to avoid loosing our position in the board,most players prefer to comcentrate their play in the centre of the board so that he got access to every region on the board.

The End game is characterized by a small number of pieces on the board. Because of the small number of pieces the result of the end game is sometimes more predictable than that of the middle game. In this part of the game sometimes even the smallest advantage could be exploited into helping you win the game.

Another important term in chess is tactics.Tactics in chess usually involves a succession of moves which are based on forcing the opponent into making moves that disadvantage him. The purpose behind the tactical procedure is to gain material or positional advantage,this is usually tried in the middle game when the coin count is high,and difficult to detect a trick.

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