How To Play Chess!

Hi Everybody! This is Pranav here and today we are going to be learning how to play the magnificent board game of chess. It is pretty simple to learn the basics but if you want to become a master at the game there is a vast amount of things you need to learn. Let's get started. The chess board is a 8x8 checkered board consisting of 64 squares. There are 6 different types of pieces, pawn, bishop, knight, rook, queen, and king. The bishop, knight, and rook come in pairs. There are 8 pawns and 1 of the king and queen. These 16 pieces are one players pieces. They are white or black. The other player will have, all of these pieces but in the opposite color. In the starting position the pawns will be on the second row and the other pieces will be on the back row like this. Now the pawn can move one square at a time except at the starting. At that time it can move one or two squares. It can capture other pieces diagonally except when it is capturing en passant, we'll cover that later. Also, when a pawn gets to the opposite side of the board it can be promoted into a bishop, knight Next up the bishop can move and capture diagonally on the square of the same color it was on. The knight moves and captures in a l-shape. The rook moves and captures vertical and horizontal. The queen is a combination of the rook and the bishop. It can move and capture both ways. The king can move 1 square in any direction. The king cannot move to any square where a piece can capture him. The way to win the game is to attack the king and make sure he cannot move anywhere. That is called checkmate. Whenever a piece is attacking the king that is called check. Whenever the king is in check then you have to move the king, block the attack, or capture the attacking piece. Now that is the basics. To learn more, there are a lot of great chess sites such as lichess.org and chess.com. That's it for this tutorial. See you next time!