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 [...]
As we have seen in one of the previous lessons the game is decided with a Checkmate, but not every game ends with a Mate. One of the players often resigns before the actual Mate is being acomplished.
Furthermore if no legal move can be made, but the King is not checked, the game necessarily is [...]
