Chess for greenhorns

The list for GOAT chess players is highly debated, and every person has their own. I am not here to debate that, however here's my list of chess players known for excelling so much in different parts of chess, that their name is synonymous with it. Attacking creatively-The most obvious part of chess in the Romantic era, and an important one even nowadays.  Honourable Mentions : Garry Kasparov Another GOAT contender, Kasparov's calculational ability was what aided most of his exceptional sacrifices. Unfortunately, he made too many sound sacrifices.(joke) David Bronstein Paul Morphy Moving on, we have, 5.Lionel Kieseritzky The most topical variation of the King's Gambit is named after him, apart from THAT he has played some insanely complex games with the same opening. Here is an example of the madness:   5. ... h5 has actually been debunked by engines, but the fact that he beat it more than a century ago is pretty awesome.  This isn't even the tip of how insane it can

The pandemic induced by the Covid-19 virus has bought a stop to most chess competitions. Over the board, that is. The online chess scene has shot up exponentially, with chess.com adding over a million members last year alone, and doubling or even tripling the prize money, to attract a stronger player pool.  Offline chess with chess elite has been rare, with less than 10 taking place in 2020. While there are many that welcome this change, and manage having a clean transition to online chess, offline chess purists, or at least the ones that grew up with it are waiting for the day offline tournaments are more accessible for them. They probably want some thing like this. So what are the pros and cons to online chess? Here is a list: Pros More accessible: Literally anyone with access to the internet can sign up on any of the free chess sites available (I recommend lichess.org ) and play, or study chess. Apart from this, Youtube has thousands of quality videos, for chess players of all level

  Castling Castling is the easiest way to get your king to safety in the early stages of the game.  To perform castling: Move your king two squares to the right or left, depending on whether you want to castle queenside or kingside, then take the corresponding rook and move it to the other side of the king. Example: The white king castled kingside, while the black king castled queenside. A few additional rules: -The king can not castle when in check -Neither of the squares it passes through can be controlled by an opponents piece to castle. -The king can not not castle if it has moved, or if either of the rooks have moved. If one of the rooks have moved, then you can castle the other side. -Neither of the squares connecting the rook and king can be occupied by any other pieces Ways in which the game can end: Checkmate: Checkmate occurs when a king is checked, and the king can not legally escape, either by moving out of check, capturing the checking piece, or block the path of check. Th

  Who is the Pawn? Though the weakest piece on the board, pawns compensate for it in their numbers, and many peculiar abilities they possess.  Their inherent weakness can often be used as a strength, because of their lower value, they favorable trade all other pieces. Hence an attack by a pawn to a piece of larger value is seldom disregarded.  Pawns are also the to support attacked pieces, and protect the king. Pawns are the only pieces that have conditional movement. A pawn that has not moved before may move either one step or two steps forward on the first move, but after it makes a move, it can only move one step forward. The pawn on e2 may move two steps or one, but the pawn on b4 may move only one step up to b5. Pawns do NOT capture forwards, though. Pawns can capture enemy pieces that are one square away diagonally from the pawn, but they move diagonally ONLY to capture, otherwise resetting back to one square up movement. + This makes pawns the only piece that is only capable of

  Who is the knight? Not this guy, this guy. The knight, weirdly enough is represented by a horse. It is the only piece that moves in a non linear shape. It moves in a L shape. The knight also as a special ability: It jumps over other pieces, enemy and friendly. Knights have a piece value of 3. That covers knights. Up next:  The Pawn

 The Queen, Rook and Bishop all have intertwined movements. Who is the Rook? The third most valuable piece in the game. The rook (aka 'Elephant', 'Fort') mostly remains inactive for most of the early parts of the game, while the Queen, Rook, Knight and Pawns do most of the heavy-lifting. It is used to get the king to safety by castling.  It is usually recommended to not play too many moves with the rook early on.  The Rook can move straight or down the file, or sides ways both ways along the row it is currently on to a maximum of 7 squares in a direction, because it hits the end of the board after that The rook has a piece value of 5 points. Who is the Bishop? The Bishop, with its relatively lower piece value, and terrific agility and range throughout the game, is one of the most fun pieces to play with because it isn't too  bad even if it gets exchanged .  The Queen combined with the Bishop can make for a very deadly combo when used properly. The Bishop moves diago