How to Play Chess: The Rules

This video explains how to play Chess, using computer graphics of a Chess board to illustrate the rules. The program used is Zillions-of-Games, which is capable of playing many different puzzles, Chess variants, and abstract strategy board games, including new ones designed by users, because it allowed me to use my own graphics and my own customized Chess tutorial script, and it has a very user-friendly interface. I made the pieces from Armando Marroquin's Chess Magnetic font and the board from photographs of wood samples. For a written description of the rules of Chess, go to http://www.chessvariants.org/d.chess/chess.html

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Chess
• tutorial
• howto
• rules
• Schach
• Echecs

[hoskinsds]

A game can also be drawn if 1 of these situations occur:

King vs King

King and Knight (1 or 2)vs King

King and Bishop vs King

King and Bishop vs King and Bishop with both Bishops on the same colour square/

[fduniho]

@hoskinsds Yes, in each case the draw is due to insufficient mating material.

[iHateNumbersInNames9]

I disagree with promoting pawns to queens, they should always be promoted to knights, think about it for a moment. If a soldier does well in battle, should he really be rewarded by being given a sex change and then be married to the king? no! knight that man say I.

[fduniho]

@iHateNumbersInNames9 Some Chess variants replace Pawn promotion with the liberation of a captured piece. So, instead of promoting a Pawn, you would exchange it for a previously captured piece. One example is Christian Freeling's Grand Chess. One slight variant of Chess with your suggestion in mind is what I might call Monogamous Chess, in which a Pawn on the last rank may promote to any piece but a Queen or be exchanged for a captured Queen.

[mvsixth]

@iHateNumbersInNames9 No, The pawn sacrifices itself to revive the queen!

[fduniho]

@mvsixth In Chess, it is legal for a player to promote every Pawn to a Queen, even if none are captured, and so have nine Queens. It's unlikely to happen, but it's legal.

[AbcZOExyz]

My brain hurts. I think I'll just stick to checkers

[BigjockGnu]

Very helpful and well explained. My son wishes to learn chess - this provides an excellent introduction.

[Ryelskiforever]

I STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY CHESS. D: grr..

[P3arlJang]

"....the Queen which is the most powerful piece in the game." LOL. Get it?

[malditoduende30]

i want to learn, so far all i've learned is.........you can do this, but not this...... i will have to re-watch it oh so many times and have some tylenol handy...lol

[mrcooper720]

chess is wank