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Chess

The objective of each player is to place the opponent´s king "under attack" in such way that the opponent has no legal move wich avoid the capture of the king.

Chess openings

A chess opening refers to the initial moves of a chess game.

Italian Game

Caro-Kann Defense

Ruy Lopez

Sicilian Defense

French Defense

Places to play Online

playchess.com

chess24.com

lichess.org

Chess.com

Players

My favorite chess players

Hikaru Nakamura

Jose Gascon Del Nogal

Alexandra and Andrea Botez

Some of the best players

Magnus Carlsen

Bobby Fischer

Gary Kasparov

Some terms

Ilegal move: move a piece in a wrong way

Draw: the result of a game ending in a tie

Checkmate: a check from which a king cannot escape.

Check: an attack on the king

Castle

To move your unmoved King 2 squares toward an unmoved Rook and to move the Rook on the other side of the King is the castling move.

Capture: remove a piece from the board

Blitz: fast chess

Blunder: a bad move

How to put the pieces

The king between the queen and a bishop

The queen next to a bishop

The queen goes in the square of the color that the piece have, white or black

Two bishops (each one next to a knight)

Two kights (each one next to a rook)

Two rooks (one in each corner)

Eight pawns in the second row

Pieces

King

Worth:---

The value of a king is invaluable because the capture of the king implies the loss of the game

Queen

Worth: 9 points

Rook

Worth: 5 points

Bishop

Knight

Worth: 3 points

The knight is the only piece that can "jump" other pieces

Pawn

Worth: 1 point

At the initial position the pawn can move 2 squares, after the first move the pawn can move only one square.