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All Just simply about FishingThe Basics of Chess
by:
Ron King
Chess is a fascinating board game that was fancied thousands of years ago. Throughout its long history, it has attained
acclaim and is considered to be the 'king' of board games. Some famed personalities were best-known for their chess skills. Napoleon, Nikola Tesla, Charlie Comedian and Einstein were among them.
Chess can provide many a hours of pleasure, not to mention intellectual exercise, since the game is best-known to improve analytical thinking, ability and judgment.
In the past chess was in the main contend by courtiers. Now everyone may enjoy this privilege. Chess attracts folk of all ages from all over the world. Chess is intriguing, for it allows players to pit their wits, experience and inspiration against a competitor.
All you need to start playing chess is a chequerboard
and chess pieces -- or if you will to play online, you need nothing much than your computer. The chequerboard
is an 8"x 8" board with cyclic black and white squares; nearly everyone is sure to have seen one.
There are 32 chess pieces in total; 16 white pieces and their 16 black counterparts. One player owns the white pieces (we call this player WHITE) and the opponent (the BLACK) gets the black ones. The 16 pieces are: the King, the Queen, two Rooks, two Bishops, two Knights and eight Pawns.
Once
the game starts these pieces are placed in their initial, predefined positions. The arrangement is as follows: each player has his own pieces positioned on
the two rows of the board (called ranks) that are nighest
to him. All 8 pawns are placed on the innermost rating of the 2. The rest of the pieces are placed nighest
to the player in the following order: Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, and Rook. This order is from left to right for WHITE and from right to left for BLACK, so that the same pieces are opposed on each column (called a file) of the board.
To facilitate descriptions of chess positions the 'algebraic chess notation' was invented. It is easy to discover and helps to identify squares and pieces on the board. It works like this: viewing from WHITE's perspective, the left
file is selected
'a', the next one 'b' and so on until we reach the right
file, which is file 'h'. The rating that is nighest
to WHITE is 'rank 1', or the 1st rank. Next comes 'rank 2' (the second rank) and so on until we get to the eighth rank, which is the rating nighest
to BLACK.
Now that we have befittingly selected
the ranks and files we may identify a square by looking up the rating and the file to which it belongs. Thus, still viewing from WHITE's side, the bottom left square is the square 'a1', since it belongs to file 'a' and to the 1st rank. Its adjacent squares are 'b1' on the right and 'a2' simply above it.
Your goal is to trap the enemy King -- it's that simple. But that is a story for another day.
Just simply about The Author:
Ron King is a full-time researcher, writer, and web developer. Visit http://www.learn-chess-now.com to discover much simply about this fascinating game.
Copyright 2005 Ron King. This article may be reprinted if the resource box is left intact.
Ron King is a full-time researcher, writer, and web developer.
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