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How to Play Chess board: Learn 5 Basics Rules

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Chess is an ancient strategy board game, can be play by all ages. If you are new to chess then explore the five fundamental rules, understanding these five essential rules will set you on the path to success on the chessboard.   1.Board and Pieces: Chessboard has 64 squares.  Each player has 16 pieces: king, queen, rooks, knights, bishops, and pawns. 2.Movement: King moves one square in any direction. Queen moves any number of squares diagonally, horizontally or vertically. Rooks move any number of squares horizontally or vertically. Knights move in an L-shape. Bishops move any number of squares diagonally. Pawns move forward one square, capture diagonally and can move two squares on their first move. 3.Objective: Checkmate opponent's king by trapping so it can't escape. 4.Special Moves: Castling allows the king and rook to move together. En passant is a pawn capture. Promotion happens when a pawn reaches the opposite side of the board. 5.Draw Conditions: Stalemate occurs when

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How to Improve Chess Tactics

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Chess is easy to learn but difficult to master which take time and if you want to improve in chess first thing you have to do is learn chess tactics, Off course everyone knows it how important a chess tactic to get better and often people fail it, so today we will tell thing to keep in mind while learning chess tactics. Before that what is chess tactics- for the beginners it short- it is a move or series of move to achieve a goal, it can be to capture a pieces or build your pieces in strong position. Focusing on studying various tactical combination such as forks, pins and skewers. Understand how these tactics work and when to apply them in your games. 1) A  fork occurs when a single chess piece attacks two or more opponent pieces simultaneously. It puts the opponent in a dilemma, as they must choose which piece to save, often leading to losing material. Knights excel at executing forks due to their unique L-shaped movement. 2) Pins occur when a piece is restricted from moving to prot

Checkmating With a Lone Rook and King

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Mastering chess without knowing the basic tactical movement of pieces is impossible, as tactical have always been the most important aspect of chess. They represent the triumph of mind over matter. Besides bringing beauty to the game, successful tactics often allow players to gain a decisive edge over their opponents. We all get frustrated at a time when had a good chess opening but end up with only few pieces. Most of time it is rook we are left with but don't worry the lone Rook and King has a very dynamic duo capable of checkmating opponents. Checkmate with lone rook is much difficult than with a queen or two rooks, however there are some few point you have keep in mind while checkmating with rook and king such as: 1) The rook should be use to restrict opponent king movement 2) The king should be corner at the edge of the chess board 3)The king should be use to block the escape square of the opponent king The Rook's horizontal and vertical dominance clears paths, restricting