CHESS FOR BEGINNERS

The Basics of Chess :

Chess is a kind of SPORT where it provide many hours of pleasure as the game is known to improve analytical thinking, creativity, judgment and it's one amongst the HOBBIES for children. Chess attracts people of all ages from all over the world. Throughout its long history, it has earned acclaim and is considered to be the 'king' of board games. Chess is intriguing, for it allows players to pit their wits, experience and inspiration against a competitor. Chess is a fascinating board game that was invented thousands of years ago. There are 32 chess pieces in total; 16 white pieces and their 16 black counterparts. One player owns the white pieces (we call this player WHITE) and the opponent (the BLACK) gets the black ones. The 16 pieces are: the King, the Queen, two Rooks, two Bishops, two Knights and eight Pawns.

When the game starts these pieces are placed in their initial, predefined positions. The arrangement is as follows: each player has his own pieces positioned along the two rows of the board (called ranks) that are closest to him. All 8 pawns are placed on the innermost rank of the 2. The rest of the pieces are placed closest to the player in the following order: Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen, King, Bishop, Knight, and Rook. This order is from left to right for WHITE and from right to left for BLACK, so that the same pieces are opposed on each column (called a file) of the board.

Now that we have appropriately designated the ranks and files we may identify a square by looking up the rank and the file to which it belongs. Thus, still viewing from WHITE's side, the bottom left square is the square 'a1', since it belongs to file 'a' and to the first rank. Its adjacent squares are 'b1' on the right and 'a2' just above it. Your goal is to trap the enemy King, it's that simple.