You may have believed that the goal of chess is to always win through checkmate. You’re clueless that chess has a huge number of objectives. I’ve been playing since I was little, but it wasn’t until recently that I understood…
I’ve been playing chess for so long that I can literally tell you how each chess pieces moves. Each chess pieces move differently and one of them only move diagonally. The Bishop is the only chess piece that can move…
Learning to play chess should begin with your desire to improve and your goal to beat every chess player you meet. Your mentor, who might be a relative, a friend, or a personal coach, will then provide the lessons and…
Have you read the book Chess Fundamentals by Jose Raul Capablanca? If not, you’re in luck since I’ll be sharing some of his chess-related teachings with you. I’m going to share with you his first principle which is the endings,…
Are you always looking for someone to play chess with? Or looking for a perfect chess set to your grandkids but don’t have time to teach them? You don’t need to worry anymore, there are a lot of grandparents who…
When I was learning chess, I did not pay attention to pawns importance, and I saw them as weak and not useful. But when I started getting defeated by opponents who know how to use pawns for their advantage, I…
In chess, it’s important to protect your King at all times and be careful where you move your king. In fact, if the king gets into checkmate – which means there are no legal moves available for him on that…
The chess piece that looks like a castle tower is called a rook, each player will start with two rooks, and they are positioned at the corner of the board (a1, h1 for white, a8, h8 for black). When you are going to use…
Do you want to know how the bishop moves in chess? How to use the bishop, and did you know that there is an opening for bishops? At the beginning of a game, each player has two bishops each. The…
The most feared chess piece on the board is the queen, especially if you use it early in the game. There are openings that utilize the queen very early in the game. The queen is so powerful that most of…
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