Chess For Dummies®

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Knights: Knights can move only in an L-shape, one square up and two over, or two squares over and one down, or any such combination of one-two or two-one movements in any direction. Gamer Network Limited, Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom, registered under company number 03882481. Notice that when you castle one direction the king is closer to the side of the board. That is called castling " kingside". Castling to the other side, through where the queen sat, is called castling " queenside". Regardless of which side, the king always moves only two squares when castling. To win at chess, capture your opponent's king by trapping it so that it can't move away from your pieces to safety. The only time a pawn may move diagonally is when capturing an opponent’s piece. Pawns may capture an opponent’s piece on either of the diagonal spaces to the left or right ahead of the piece. As part of capturing the piece, the pawn will move diagonally to replace the captured piece. A pawn cannot capture an adjacent piece on any other square, or move diagonally without capturing.

Put the bishops (pieces that are typically topped with a teardrop shape) on the board next to the knights. If an opponent’s pawn would have been able to legally capture the moving pawn had it only moved one square instead of two, the opponent can declare en passant on their next turn and move their pawn diagonally onto the square that the pawn passed through - capturing the pawn as if it had only moved one square.

Notation was invented so that we could analyze chess games after playing them. Thanks to it, we can register the whole game in writing and reproduce it as many times as we want. We must only write down our moves and our opponent's moves correctly.

Draws can also occur as the result of advanced rules typically used in professional tournaments, including identical board positions occurring three or five times - rules known respectively as threefold repetition and fivefold repetition - or no captures or pawn moves taking place within the last 50 or 75 moves. The exact rules used can depend on the tournament and agreement between the players. Pawns have another special ability and that is that if a pawn reaches the other side of the board it can become any other chess piece (called promotion) excluding a king (or pawn, for that matter).Castling is perhaps the most complicated basic rule in chess, and a rule that many beginners often overlook as a result. It doesn't look that bad to me. Maybe a fun non stressful read. (Not anything like the depth of the Wolff book.) There are a number of advanced rules that can be used in chess, along with specific openings and board positions known by a variety of names, from the Double King's Pawn Opening to the famous King’s Gambit and Queen’s Gambit. I found it to be a super cool book, myself. I was at the local coffee shop/bookstore and it was sitting on a table, so I took a gander. I was actually really surprised at all the information in it! Stuff about world champions, history, etc.