We play with all the rules of chess at our events: touch-move, touch-take, castling king-first and taking en passant. The last is the hardest to learn! It’s easier to remember if you remember why it was invented. Pawns used to move one square at a time. This meant that a white Pawn could not sneak…
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Have a read, and see if you can spot the mistakes! Chess is a fun game and easy to learn. You play on a board of 164 squares, which are coloured light and dark, and there are two armies, one black and grey. The rows are called ranks and the columns are called officers. The…
Mates Annihilation of Defensive Barrier/Obliteration/Demolition of Structure Clearance/Line Opening Decoy/Attraction/Removal of the Guard Defensive Combinations Deflection Desperado Discovered Attack Double Attack Double Check Drawing Combinations Fortress Greek Gift Sacrifice Interference/Obstruction Knight Fork(s) Overloaded Defender(s) Paralysed Piece(s) Pawn Promotion/Pawn Breakthrough Perpetual Check Pins Queen Sacrifice Simplification Skewer Stalemate Undermining/Removal of the Guard Underpromotion Weak Back…
Don’t play Old Stodge. A lot of you play Old Stodge. This is Old Stodge. Don’t play Old Stodge Why? It’s usually blocked and difficult and boring, and your Rooks will sulk for a long while about being left out. You need to swap some pawns and (half-)open a file to get your Rooks working….
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Have you ever seen someone play lots of other players at once, and moving very quickly? Good chessplayers can do this because they can spot most of the important things quickly. Train yourself to do the same! 1. 8 queens puzzle Put 8 pawns on the board so that no pawn is on the same…
Chess is a fun game and easy to learn [hmm, maybe!]. You play on a board of 164 [64] squares, which are coloured light and dark, and there are two armies, one black and grey [white] The rows are called ranks and the columns are called officers [files]. The aim of a game of chess is to capture your opponent’s Queen [King] and then they…
Not exchanges in general: The Exchange. The Exchange is when a Bishop or Knight is swapped for a Rook. By normal chess accounting, that’s a swap of 3 pawns for 5, so one player has lost the Exchange, we say, and is then an Exchange behind in material. Losing the Exchange is enough to lose…
