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The Game of Chess

Chess is a brainteaser sport that played by two people. This game is able to play by anyone without consider to gender, age, and also the social level. A real needed to play at chess is the agility of brain in arranging the strategy and mastered the opponent strategy. Chess Player doesn’t require some equipments of self-protection like football player, softball player, or fencer. What they need is only fresh mind. Here the chess players is tested their ingenuity in held the opponent’s steps. Chess is often called as intellectual sport, because it needs clever strategy in stepping the chess pieces.

Chess is war game between white chess pieces and black chess pieces. The game is started with 16 chess pieces at each party, which arranged in form a line at each chessboard side face to face. One chess piece can only occupy one check. At foremost part of each line, is stayed by eight Pawns, followed by two Rooks in its back, two Knights, two Bishops, one Queen and one King. The Chessboard is squares. The Chessboard that has confessed by internationally is if at the right hand of every player is white check. Chessboard check, amount to 64 and 32 checks filled by the chess pieces.

To step the chess pieces, every player must know the direction of each chess pieces. Every chess pieces have its direction and beat. The first step in the game of Chess passed to white player, continued by black player, continuously it has change hands until the party completed. Along the game, the players are beat each other and exchange the squares. Hence, there are many people say that the game of chess is region fight war.

General Rules of Chess Game

The main purpose in chess game is kill the opponent’s King or in chess term is 'checkmate'. For the purpose, the players must quickly and careful in attack the opponent base. The first step has taken by white player continued by black player. Every chess pieces have different step. A chess pieces can move to other position or possibly can captures the opponent’s chess pieces. Besides the Knight, chess pieces cannot move by jumped over the other chess pieces that stand in front of them. These are the direction and movements of the chess pieces:

1. Chessboard

One of necessary equipment in play chess is the chessboard. The chessboard is square. Chessboard checks are black and white. Chessboard that confessed internationally is if at right hand every player is white check. Chessboard check, amount to 64 and 32 checks filled by the chess pieces. In chessboard check, there is column, line and diagonal term. Column is 8 sequence lengthwise checks from one player to his opponent. Its direction is vertical. Line is 8 sequence checks that flat from left to right. Line also called as horizontal column.
While horizontal line is sequence check in same color. Diagonal sequence check is not must amount to 8 checks. Sometimes amount to 7, 6, 5 until least amounted 2. The diagonal direction can from up right to beneath left or up left to beneath right.

2. Pawn

There are eight pawns in every chessboard side. The pawns have smallest powerful of all chess pieces, but still have opportunity to be strong. The Pawn’s direction is straight ahead based on the squares one by one. But, from the basis, it may move forward two squares as long as there are no obstructing pieces. Pawn cannot move back. The Pawn capture is one diagonals forwards. Though pawn is least powerful in arranging strategy, but there are two special certifiable things of pawn to against.

- En Passant

Though the capture direction of Pawn is forward, there is exception if white pawn has entered to fifth line or black pawn has entered to fourth line. Example; if the white Pawn in fifth line, he can capture opponent’s chess pieces if the opponent’s pawn move from his basis in two sequences and finally land in parallel line with the white pawn (right or left side). En Passant rights will lose if it done precise after the opponent’s pawn move.

- Pawn Promotion

Besides En Passant, the other special of pawn is can do promotion. Promotion can be done if white pawn or black pawn has reached the end line. At that moment, Pawn gets promotion rights to become any kind heroic based on his wishes. For example, become Bishops, Rook, Knight or Queen. Most players will surely choose the Queen to get stronger fighting power; even it is rarely to choose other chess pieces than the Queen. Pawn that gets his promotion may not become a King. After promotion, the move rights delivered to the opponent’s. It also need to be explained that if the player who gets the promotion still has Queen, and wish to change his pawn with Queen, it is enabled. Thereby, might possibly a player has 2 or 3 Queens. But Pawn promotion is not easy thing, because the opponent will obscure the promotion.

3. Heroic

A. Rook

Rook is one of heroic chess pieces that have a big influence in chess game. If the Rook is paired with the Queen, hence conceived of biggest chess pieces.

The Rook direction is straight based on column or line and free to move in some checks, as long there is no barrier in the column or line.
The direction capture is same way with its move direction. The Rook direction may not diagonally move.

- Castling

If En Passant and Promotion is the special rights of Pawn, then Castling is special rights between King and Rook. Rook that cannot break through friend and opponent chess pieces, and King that only move on one square, have privilege for black and white King in one parties. Castling can done if:

There is no barrier between King and Rook or the squares that passed by King and Rook is emptied.
King and Rook are come from original position and have never been stepped.
King doesn’t stay in threatened position and the check that passed by King is not in threat of opponent’s chess pieces.

The purpose of Castling is to protect King and give opportunity to Rook to go down to field. When doing Castling, the King must be held first then Rook. The Rook that has threatened is still can do Castling and if the check that passed by Rook that will do Castling has threatened, the Rook still can do Castling.

B. Knight

Knight is the only heroic that enabled move to pass the other chess pieces in front of it. The Knight is based on letter L. In each opportunity, Knight only has 8 sequences to be occupied.

Even though, this heroic moves direction often makes the chess player feel confused with his jumping movement.
The Knight that resides in white sequence would arrive at black sequence, and so on.

C. Bishop

The Bishop moves direction is diagonal. Every player is entitled to have two Bishops, one in white check and one in black check. The Bishops that reside in white check always move diagonal direction in white check and so do on the contrary, Bishop that reside in black check move diagonal in black check. Because the diagonal checks have same color, it impossible that Bishop which located in white check moved to black check or so do on the contrary.

D. Queen

The powerful chess piece is Queen. This because the Queen moves direction and capture is not limited, without doubt. It means that she can move and capture from any particular direction, straight and diagonal.

But she still cannot jump over other chess pieces. Usually, she captures in the same way that she moves opponent. This heroic is often made as the great power in chess.

The chess player frequently feels better lost the other heroic than the Queen. Because this heroic is trusted to become the power source in fight the opponent.

E. King

The same as the Knight, the King is only has eight checks choice, in each move. Though his strength not too big, but the King position is very vital. If King has failed, hence the game is also end. The King direction move is one step to any squares as long the target check not in shot by the opponent. In consequence, it is better if the King not move to the dangerous squares. From this strategy, two Kings have never met or capture each other.

End Game

The game will end if player’s King captures by his opponent. When King cannot move again because it taken prisoner by the opponent, hence this situation named "Checkmate". The King player that is exposed to Checkmate expressed to fail. But if the King is expose to "Check”, where the King surrounded by opponent’s chess pieces but able to pull to other sequences, the game can be continued.

Besides Checkmate, the end of the chess game is settled by a same powerful condition of the players. This condition is named series or draw. Or, the game will be end if one of the chess players offers to draw and his opponent agree, game ceremonially ends. The end act is the vital importance in chess game. King would so central active in end act. His strength will increase ten times fold than the opening act or mid act. Almost in every end act, both players have moved their King very often than the other chess pieces.