Basic chess for beginner

First, we will learn how to move pieces 

1. How to move pawn 

A) The pawn on its starting square can move 2 squares ahead and then it has to move 1 square every time.

B) 

The pawn can capture diagonally but it cannot capture ahead or backward or jump over a piece. It can only capture diagonally and on its starting square it can move 2 squares ahead and then move 1 square ahead

C) 

These are the ways a pawn can promote.

. The first point is that it can promote to a QUEEN A BISHOP A KNIGHT OR A ROOK.

. The second point is YOU CANNOT PROMOTE TO A KING BECAUSE THERE CANNOT BE 2 KINGS AS CHEKMATING BOTH WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE AND YOU CAN NOT LEAVE IT AS A PAWN THAT IS CALL DEAD PAWN AND IT CANNOT MOVE FUTHER ACCORDING TO THE RULES.

Now lets learn how to move a knight

A knight can move in a L shape by moving 3 squares straight and then a left or right one square.

BUT it can only move in L shapes not diagonally or straight.

. When a knight is at the center it can move to a total of 8 squares.

It can attack weak squares from a distance. 

It can create major attacks 

It can defend pieces from a distance as well.

Now let us learn how to move a rook

It can move straight either way horizontal or vertical.

Remember that all the pieces other than the pawn capture the same way as they move. Only the pawn captures diagonally.

When the rook is at the center it attacks 15 squares

. Never play h4 it is not a good opening if you want to learn good openings look at my blog opening and middle and please comment if any changes have to be made. usually, rooks show their power in the middle game and endgame because once you castle to reach the middle game the rook can slide to e1 to have a beautiful semi-open file and in the endgame have beautiful open files. Sometimes if we see this example with black having a lone king white blocks the lone king with Rd1 and the pawn promotes.

This is the way to use rooks.

1) Block the opponent's king to catch the pawn otherwise end up having a hard endgame.

2) Help the pawn to advance by putting the rook behind the pawn.

3) try to make a box in the endgame if you end up with a king and rook vs king endgame and if you can make the box smaller you should do it if you cannot, move the king.

4)If you are the one with just having a lone king with your opponent having a rook and a king, try to find a stalemate, if your opponent ends up doing a mistake, take advantage of that by moving your king out of the box if in your reach.

Now time for the queen.

The queen is the mix of the bishop and rook power because it can move straight and diagonally till wherever it wants! like this example

The queen moved straight and gave checkmate with the help of the king. This is called helper checkmate which we will cover in the next blog. Stay tuned.

If the queen is at the center, it attacks 28 squares

Now time for the king which is the final piece we are going to learn how to move it

The king moves 1 square in every direction.

example: -

It is in the center so it can attack 9 squares. but as the arrows shown it can move like a queen BUT only one square at a time.

Some extra tips and discoveries.

1) Do not hang your queen

2)Always keep your king safe in the middle game because most of the pieces attack their opponent's position in the middle game but in the endgame, you can bring your king out and keep safeguard of your pawns

3)Never bring your queen out to early

4) Any piece in the center attacks the most squares

All other tips are given in my previous 2 blogs

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!