In almost all chess games one of the players wins by first obtaining a material advantage. The easiest way to obtain such a material advantage is to take the free pieces offered by the other player.
One way to localize these pieces is to look at each of your own pieces to see whether one of [...]
Knowing all the rules, moves and starting position isn’t enough to become a good chess player. More chess lessons will follow, but this may be a good moment to emphasize that you also have to move this theory into practice. Nobody can learn to play chess without playing chess games.
Here are some tips especially targeted [...]
In order to record your own chess games or to replay the moves from other recorded games and lessons you have to understand the algebraic chess notation.
The squares of the chess board
First we have to identify each square of the chessboard with a unique coordinate. The files are labelled with the lowercase letters a through [...]
Chess is a very appealing game that is played by millions of people all around the world.
Chess is a game for two players and is played on an 8×8 checkered board, with a dark square in each player’s lower left corner. White, the player of the light colored pieces, moves first. Then Back has to [...]
During this lesson all the moves of the chess pieces are shortly explained.
The King
The King can move one square in any direction. The King can also capture an opponent’s piece if it is on one of those squares as long as this piece is not defended. The King is not allowed to move himself [...]
