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Our site uses chess board diagram generator to display the chess positions on the board. It's a great tool, we recommend anyone to use it.

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Lately we used a new tool that can be used to create videos to capture the pieces movement. Thanks to caissa's pgn editor . It's a great tool indeed, since it's simple and useful.

Part III: Chess Tactics (Mating-King-Rook)

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Mating with King and rook

The idea is to suppress the position of the enemy's king using the rook and then moving our king to help the mating.

Let's see the example, white's king is on f4, the rook is on a5, while the black's king is on e7, and it's white's turn.

1. Ra6 Kd7

Here rook is advancing towards black's king to corner him to the upper side. The black counters by moving the king towards the rook

2. Ke5 Kc7

Since the rook cannot suppress the black's king anymore, white moves the king.

3. Kd5 Kb7

If you notice, the white didn't move the king to 6th rank, why? Because we need to make a free space on 6th rank, so that the rook may move freely, moving away from the black's king

4. Rh6 Kc7

The rook moved away from the threat. Once again the black's king tried to move towards the rook. At this point, there will be a moment where white's king and the black's position are on the same file, we need to create that moment, so that we are able to move the rook to the 7th rank, this way the black's king cannot move either on 6th or 7th column.

5. Rg6 Kd7

This is the moment we waited for. After this move, we need to move the rook to g7, after that the black's king have no option but to retreat to upper squares.

6. Rg7+ Ke8

Once again the black's king forced to move to upper squares.

7. Ke6 Kf8

8. Ra7 Ke8

9. Ra8#

This time the black's king cannot move any further and it's a checkmate.

Here's the complete video

Part II: Moving the Pieces (King)

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The King

The king can move horizontally, vertically and even diagonally but only up to 1 square
Given the king position on e1, what is the possible move?

The answer is d1, d2, e2, f2, and f1

To capture an opponent's piece, first move the queen to the opponent's piece, then take the opponent's piece.

Given the king position on e1, what is the possible capture?

The answer is d1, e2 and f1. Pieces on d2 and f2 cannot be captured as it is being guarded by the knight on d1 and f1.

The king is the only piece that must be protected. The king is checkmated if the king is threatened and cannot move any further.

Note that the king on g1 cannot move to both f1 and h1 as it is threatened by the rook on e1.

The goal of chess game is to checkmate an opponent's king. Once the goal reached, we win the game.

Part II: Moving the Pieces (Queen)

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The Queen

The queen can move horizontally, vertically and even diagonally

Given the queen position on h1 what is the possible move?

The answer is g1, f1, e1, d1, c1, b1, a1 to move horizontally, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, h7, h8 to move vertically and g2, f3, e4, d5, c6, b7, a8 to move diagonally

To capture an opponent's piece, first move the queen to the opponent's piece, then take the opponent's piece.

Given the queen position on e4, what is the possible capture?

The answer is all the pieces around the queen, awesome isn't it?

The queen is feared even when she goes alone, that's why some player prefer to eliminate it at the early game.

Part II: Moving the Pieces (Rook)

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The Rook

The rook can move horizontally or vertically

Let's take an example, given the rook position on a1, what is the possible move?

The answer is a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a8 to move vertically, and b1, c1, d1, e1, f1, g1, h1 to move horizontally.

To capture an opponent's piece, it must be in the path of the rook movement.

Given the rook position on e4, what is the possible captures?

The answer is d4, f4, e3, e5

The rook is feared when there's two rook in the same rank or file, because they can support each other.

Part II: Moving the Pieces (Knight)

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The Knight

The knight can move L shaped only.

Given knight position on e4, what is the possible moves?

The answer is c5, d6, f6, g5, g3, f2, d2 and c3.

To capture an opponent's piece, first move the knight to the opponent's piece, then take the opponent's piece.

Given the situations below, what pieces that can be captured by the knight?

The answer is the pieces on f2 and g3.

Knight is feared as it can move through obstacles. Given the position below with black's turn,

Black move the king to d8, then white move the knight to capture the rook on a8

At this moment the black player cannot do anything to stop the white's knight from fleeing as it can move to b6. Remember that the black's king cannot move to c7 as it can be captured by the knight on a8.

Part II: Moving the Pieces (Bishop)

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The Bishop

The bishop can move up to 7 squares as long as in its diagonals.

For example, the white bishop, refers to the bishop standing on the white board, can move to diagonal white squares only, while the opposite, the black bishop, can move to diagonal black squares only.

Here's the example of white bishop and its movement. From the starting position on h1, white bishop can move to g2, f3, e4, d5, c6, b7 and a8

To capture an opponent's piece, move the bishop to opponent's piece and then take it, here's the example white player's bishop on h1 while the opponent's rook on a8. To capture the rook, just move the bishop to a8 and take the opponent's rook

Note that the piece that is about to be captured must be in the bishop's path. Given the bishop position on e4, which opponent's pieces that can be captured?

The answer is the pieces on d5, d3, f3 and f5

As the supporting pieces the bishop can be very powerful if both of them still exist on the board, as they can provide support from afar

Part II: Moving the Pieces (Pawn)

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The pawn

Pawns moves 1 square, except when they move at the first time, they can move 2 squares.

Let’s take an example, here’s a pawn on d2 moves 1 square

The notation is d2-d3 (means that the pawn moves from d2 to d3)

When the pawn moves for the first time, they can move 2 squares

The notation is d2-d4

When capturing opponent's pawns, they can move diagonally, ex. d4xe5 (means the pawn on d4 captures the piece on e5)

The unusual move is an en passant capture, let’s take an example here our pawn on d5, while the opponent's pawn is on c7

the opponent move is c7-c5

then our pawn captures the opponent’s pawn on c5 by taking the opponent’s pawn and moving our pawn on d5 to c6

Finally when the pawn on the 8th rank, the pawn can promote itself into another piece, a bishop, a knight, a rook or even a queen.

Part I: The Basics

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1 Chess board

The chess board, consisting of 64 squares, half of the squares are light while half others are black. The lines in vertical often are called files. The lines in horizontal often are called ranks. And the lines that cut diagonally through the board are called diagonals. When setting up the board, keep in mind that a light square should be in the lower right corner. When starting the game, white always have the first move.

2 Chess board Notation

There are some notations used in chess. These notations are used when we talk about the movement in chess. One of these notations is called algebraic notation. There're two types of algebraic notations, the long and the short type. In this tutorial, to make the explainations easy, we'll be using the short type. In algebraic notation, the point of view is taken from the white positions. The vertical column on chess board, from left to right are lettered from A to H. The horizontal column, from bottom to top are numbered from 1 to 8. For example the lower left corner of white positions is A1 and the lower right corner is H1.

3 Chess pieces

The chess pieces consisting of the pawn, bishop, knight, queen, rook and the king. They have their own values, the higher the values, the worthier the piece. These values are often considered when we have several decisions in the game. For example will you sacrifice a pawn than a rook? By knowing the values we can take a quick decision.

The pawn

This is the weakest piece in the chess board and the value is 1, and totally 8 pawns on the board. In the early game, the pawns are placed in the 2 rank

The bishop

The bishop value is 3. You can say it is equal to 3 pawns. There are 2 pieces for the bishop, they are placed on the 3rd column from both the left and right of the board

The knight

The knight value is 3. The value is equal to the bishop you say? Yes, you’re right. The bishop and the knight often used as supporting pieces in the game. Some player value the bishop more than the knight for example 3.5 while others value the knight more than the bishop. It depends on the player playing style. There are 2 pieces for the knight, they are placed on the 2nd column from both the left and right of the board.

The rook

The rook value is 5. It equals to 5 pawns. There are 2 pieces for the rook, they are placed on the left most and right most of the board.

The queen

The queen value is 9. This is because the queen role is equal to the combination of the bishop and the rook

The king

The king actually doesn’t have any value. But even it’s not powerful, it cannot be lost. When you lost the king (actually it never happens), you lost the game

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