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How to Play Chess

By: drew syndram

Learn to Play Chess: The Pawn

Ever heard of the expression “I am just your pawn”? It is usually used when a person is being manipulated and in the event, being sacrificed for the good of the other. Well, the pawn basically moves the same way in chess. It is the foot soldier that is on the start of the battle field. If you want to learn to play chess, this is the piece you start off with.

The pawn moves differently on how it captures. When it moves towards the enemy’s line for the first time, it can move one square or two squares forward. If it has already moved, from here on, it can only move forward one square at a time. It is sort of like a foot soldier that has limited movement capabilities.

In terms of capturing, the pawn move one square diagonally either to the left or to the right, whichever piece your pawn wants to capture. Again, the pawn can only go to as much as capturing one square diagonally, like a foot soldier with a relatively short sword or a soldier that has a short ranged bow.

If a pawn reaches the end of the enemy’s board, then this pawn can become whatever rank he wants to be. It’s like a soldier being promoted to a higher rank for being an effective soldier. The pawn can be a rook, a bishop, a knight or even a queen. It cannot choose to be a pawn again (why would anyone do that?) or a king.

A pawn cannot move one space back like other pieces but it can move “en passant,” which is in response to the two-square-move now being implemented for pawns.

Learn to Play Chess: the Rook and Bishop

If you want to learn to play chess, you should know how to use the rook and the bishop.

The Rook
This is also called as the “castle” in some countries because it basically looks like a castle tower. This piece moves the way it captures, unlike the very humble pawn. It moves horizontally and vertically and it can travel from one end of the board to another, thus it does not depend how many squares it crosses so long as there are no obstacles blocking it. If there is a piece blocking its way to a capture, the rook, unlike the knight, cannot jump over the piece. A rule of thumb that can help you remember is that the rook’s movement and capture path is like a “T” shape except when it touches the edges of a board. There are two rooks per color.

The Bishop
There are two bishops per color (four in the entire game). One bishop is for the dark squares and one bishop is for the light squares. If the rook moves in a horizontal/ vertical way, the bishop moves and captures in a diagonal way. It can also move from one end to the other end of the board so long as no piece is blocking it because it cannot jump over pieces.

Because bishops only move diagonally, if the bishop started out as a dark square bishop, it only sticks to that color; no way it can cross over to the light squares.

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