A game of chess is played between two players moving pieces in turn on a chessboard. The player who occupies the white pieces starts the game. The main task in chess is to attack the opponent's king so that the partner in the game cannot save his king by any possible move. The player who first reached the main objective checkmated the king of the second player and therefore won the game.
To learn how to play chess, you must learn the moves of all the pieces.
1. The bishop piece moves exclusively along the diagonals on which it is located.
2. The rook piece moves along the chessboard horizontally and vertically on which it is located.
3. The queen piece moves across the entire field along the diagonal, horizontal and vertical, on which it is located.
4. The figure of a knight is moved by the letter "g" - first it moves two squares horizontally or vertically, then moves one square horizontally or vertically perpendicular to the original direction.
5. The pawn piece moves forward to a free square, which is directly in front of it on the same file.
- the pawn moves two squares along the same file, if these squares are free,
- the pawn moves to the square occupied by the second player's piece, at the same time knocking the opponent's piece out of the game,
- in case the pawn reaches the final square horizontally from its original position, it can be replaced by another piece, for example, a rook, queen, bishop or knight, which is your move.
6. The king piece moves in two different ways:
- can move to any adjacent square that is not in sight of the attack by one or more pieces of the second player. As a rule, the pieces of the second player attack this square, even if there is no possibility of a move,
- can go "castle". This is the move of the king and one rook of the same color along the extreme horizontal, such a movement is considered a move of the king and is performed in such a way that the king moves from its original square to two squares to the rook, then the rook passes through the king to the last square crossed by the king. When you are just starting to play chess, this move can be very useful.
The king is "in check" if a piece becomes attacked by any of the other player's pieces, even if none of the attacking pieces can make a move. It is not necessary to inform your partner about the check.
7. No piece must make a move that puts or leaves the king in check.
