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.