Chess

A pawn captures another piece by moving diagonally one square forward to the square where the enemy piece is located. The pawn cannot capture a piece that is directly in front of it. Another way a pawn captures is under a special rule which applies only to another pawn. If White has a pawn on the 5th rank and Black moves a pawn one file over two spaces from the 7th rank to the 5th rank, the White pawn may capture the Black pawn even though the black pawn is now right beside it by moving one square diagonally forward right behind the Black pawn. This is called capturing "en passant"

There are generally two ways:-

1. Conventional rule: in which a pawn facing diagonally and closest to other pawn( of different colour), it can capture that pawn and acquire its position.

2. En Passant: It is french method which has been prevailing in International format of Chess. When the pawn is placed in initial position and facing the second pawn( of different colour) in conventional way( as mentioned in first method), suppose it moves two squares to avoid clash; however, second pawn can capture it by considering the first pawn 's move only by single square and acquire position one square less to the movement of first pawn.

This question is entirely opinionated, as both games have their advantages and disadvantages. Such as, a lot of people theorize that checkers is actually a solved game, and that there is a pattern to win every time for the player who moves first. Also, chess is considered too complicated by many people, as it takes considerably more time and practice.

But overall, both games can be good hobbies, or just something to have fun and pass the time away for awhile, or even competitive sports!

There are many and this question is a bit too general but ill give it a shot 1) move E2-E4 on ur first move so you take the centre because you have greater mobility in the centre than you do on the side 2) Only make moves that you have a reason to make them, dont make a move just for the sake of making one 3) Castle King-Side early and try to develop your pieces (get them out) early too 4) On every move, look to make sure that your opponent doesnt have a trap for you and if he does, check if it can work or not, if it would then make a move too stop it 5) Practice with someone at your skill level and look over your mistakes, learn from them

Yes

As you have to play Chess with two people, there aren't really any 'cheats' as such. It depends if you browse the internet you may find a way to beat computer players. If playing with real people my best tips would be to try and keep your king at the back. Also moving the pawn directly diagonal from the bishop at the very beginning of the game, leaves you free to sneakily move your bishop along the whole board either way to attack. You can use this cheat with the pawn directly diagonal from the Queen and straight in front of the castle to free up these important pieces. As the knight can jump over pawns, this doesn;t occur with this chess piece.

Hope this helps.

In chess, the king can move one space in any direction*. The queen can move in any direction for any number of spaces*. The bishop must stay on his starting color and can move any number of spaces in a diagonal line*. The knight moves in an L-shape. The castles(rooks) can only move in a straight line*. The pawns move forward and can attack only if a piece is one space diagonally in front of them.

There are dozens of possibilities for a 5 move checkmate. You could use the 4 move checkmate "Scholar's Mate" and just delay a move in it, you could use a reversed Scholar's Mate and just use it as black. Or, you could find a different combination such as this sequence: 1. d2d4, e7e5 2. qd3, nc6 3. qb3, d7d6 4. bg5, qxg5 and 5. nf3 qc1#. Or any number of similar sequences.

Yes, the king can move out of check, provided that doing so is a legal move (i.e. does not move into check again). If it cannot and there is no other way to defend the check, then it is mate.

A pawn is worth 1 , a knight is worth 3 , a bishop is worth 3 , a rook is worth 5 , a queen is worth 9 and the king is infinitely valuable .

For beginners, opening principles are essential. Developing your pieces, don't move the same piece twice unless absolutely necessary, castle your king, connect your rooks. The relative value of pieces are also very important, so you know when you are up or down material, and which pieces should be regarded as more important.

Chess Guru is great if you want to learn how to play chess this is the place to be. It contains articles on both the basic rules of chess and on the more advanced elements such as tactic, theory of the middle game, end game and opening. Its focus mainly on teaching beginning and intermediate players and it does that in a series of step by step, easy to follow chess tutorials.

It depends entirely on what level you're playing and what type of game. If I am to assume that you mean the amount of time each person gets, not the amount of time the entire game takes, then the time can vary anywhere from one minute to five hours, and many possible times in between those extremes exist. Delays on the clock may vary from five seconds to perhaps thirty seconds. Please correct me if I am wrong.

In chess, a king can capture any other piece except another king. Getting next to a the opposing king puts you in check because it allows your king to be taken first losing the game. Moving next to the opposing queen is the same situation unless the queen moves next to the king as some sort of sacrifice ploy.

According to a few chess books it started in 15th century B.C

Yes. The Knight can move over your pieces or your opponents pieces while making its move, as long as it lands on either an unoccupied square or a square controlled by your opponent's piece.

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Chess was founded in India about in 6th century.

No , only upon the square that it lands .

"The piece that is jumped over is further not affected by the knight: as usual, a knight takes a piece of the opponent by moving to the square that contains that piece. "

In any single elimination pool tournament with an odd number of players or teams, a by is always neecssary. This is one reason double elimination can be slightly more "fair", or points are used.

Players or team are paired, 1 to 1, but with an odd number in any round, a player has no one to play. This player gets advanced to the next round as if he/she had a win, and this is called a "bye". The play should be arranged such that no player or team gets more than one bye.

No, if a white king for an example checks a black king, then that white king is in check because of the white king. That means that a king can never be checked by a king. Think of it as a forcefield, neither king can come within a 1 square range of the other.

The only possible way a king could check another is if it was blocking the path of one of its own pieces that would be checking the opponent's king, and the king moved to unblock the path. This is called a discovered check.

I would like to add on to the other answer above.

You can only castle if both your king and the rook you're castling with didn't make a move yet, and you can't castle into a check. You can't castle vertically, since it will require a move to make the rook or the king vertical.

There are two ways to notate a castle in chess. If you are castling to the nearest rook, then you notate that by doing "0-0." If you are castling queen side, then you notate that by writing "0-0-0." A good trick to remember this is by how far your piece is traveling.

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