[Chessleader]

"Welcome members, the upcoming lessons designed for our begginer members in order to understand the basic concepts of chess."

First of all, chess is played on a square borad called a chessboard. The game has only two players (white, and black. white play first, and the colors are chosen either by a friendly agreement, or by a tournament director), each player control 16 pieces consists of: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and finally 8 pawns for each player. The main objective of the game is to checkmate the king. (attack the king and it cant be moved anywhere). Ofcourse, to checkmate the king you need to develop startigies (discussed in the chess tactics/startigies forum).

Now lets talk about the chessborad. It has eight rows with numbers from 1-8, and eight colums denoted with letters from a-h. The squares on the chessborad are usually white and black.

The chessborad looks something like this:




Now lets talk about each piece:

1)King: The king can move one square horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. There is a special move for the king called castling and its only allowed once per game. Castling, means moving the king two squares towards a rook, then placing the rook on the far side of the king. But castling can be permitted only if the following conditions exist:

a)The king or the rook never been moved.
b)The king never been checked (attacked).
c)The king during castling will not pass or placed in a check position.

The king moves as follows:




To be continued...