Learning Chess - Chess for Beginners E-Book

Alexander Fischer

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 36

Beschreibung

Learning Chess - Chess for Beginners With this book you can learn the basics of chess or the rules of chess quickly and effortlessly. Every single move of the chess pieces is shown in diagrams. The basic knowledge of chess is explained in an understandable way and with more than 150 diagrams it makes getting started easy for beginners. - The Chessboard - Designation of the Individual Squares - Designation of the Files - Designation of the Ranks - Designation of the Diagonals - Setting up the Chessboard Correctly - The Chess Pieces - The Initial Setup - The Pieces: King / Queen / Rook / Bishop / Knight / Pawn - The Value of the Pieces - The Rules of Chess - Capturing Pieces - Capturing Pieces using Pawns - Capturing En Passant - Promoting a Pawn - Castling - Check, Mate, Draw, Stalemate - Notation of Moves - Small Exercises - Tips for your First Game of Chess

Leseprobe

I dedicate this book to my parents. Your love is the greatest gift on this earth.

Thank you for everything, yours Alexander.

Table of Contents

Learning Chess - Chess for Beginners

The Chessboard

Designation of the Individual Squares

Designation of the Ranks

Designation of the Files

Designation of the Diagonals

Setting up the Chessboard Correctly

The Chess Pieces

The Initial Setup

The King

The Queen

The Rook

The Bishop

The Knight

The Pawn

The Value of the Pieces

Capturing Pieces

Capturing Pieces using Pawns

Capturing En Passant

Promoting a Pawn

Castling

Check, Mate, Draw, Stalemate

Notation of Moves

The Rules of Chess

Small Exercises

Tips for Your First Game of Chess

Learning Chess – Chess for Beginners

If you want to learn chess as a beginner, I want to teach you the basics of playing chess and the rules of chess in this book “Learning Chess – Chess for Beginners” in a comprehensive way.

Many believe that it's hard to learn chess. But if you learn the few rules that there are, you'll see that it's not that hard. Chess isn't so hard to learn after all. This book aims to encourage you to start playing chess. Once you have finished this book, you will have mastered the rules of chess.

All examples are clearly and comprehensively structured using graphics. Each move of a chess piece is shown in a diagram. With this guide, you'll comprehensively learn chess.

Chess is a Sport

Chess is very demanding for players. Playing chess fosters skills like concentration, self-discipline, perseverance and mathematical thinking. It's also very competitive, since you can train in playing chess and improve that way.

“Chess is stimulation and pleasure at the same time. It educates the young and invigorates the old. The sport of chess promotes skills such as concentration, the ability to observe and comprehend, combination and perseverance, skills that are generally useful in life” (Former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker)

I'm convinced that with this book, starting to play chess will be easy for you and I hope you will enjoy learning the game of chess, which is also called “the game of kings”.

To be able to understand the rules better, you should set up a chess board, so that the examples involving many comprehensive diagrams will be even easier to understand.

The Chessboard

Chess is a strategic board game. It is played by two opponents, on a so-called chessboard, which has a square shape with even more squares on it. On each side there are eight squares. So since it is 8 x 8, there are 64 squares. Those are alternately white (light) and black (dark).

The Chessboard - Designation of the Individual Squares

There are letters and numbers at the edges of the chessboard. On the left side, there are numbers next to the eight squares. Those are numbered from 1 to 8.

On the bottom side, there are letters under the eight squares. They are labeled from a to h.

To indicate the squares on the chessboard, you use the letter that is under the square first, then the number that is on the left of that square. So it is always the letter first, then the number.

This way, there is only one square where there is a “c”, for example, on the letter-side and, for example, a “3” on the number-side. This would be the square c3. This way, each square has its own unique designation.

Example:

The square on the bottom left is indicated as a1.

Each square and its designation.

This is important for the notation of moves. More on this later.

The Chessboard – The Ranks, Files, Diagonals and their Designations