Riv's Guide to Playing Chess at Home
Riv's Guide to Playing Chess at Home
Chess: Fool's Mate (1 min vid)
Interesting about the above video clip: The narrator says the moves in classic Descriptive Notation. The moves are actually WRITTEN, however, in Algebraic Notation.
Chess: Fool's Mate; Transitioning Algebraic Notation (vid)
1. The comment section of this second video shows that some people have NO clue about how chess is actually played, let alone recorded.
2. Interestingly, unlike tournament notation, the moves here are recorded from start point AND endpoint of the move.
It'll probably take a few attempts to streamline/"edit" these submissions into a working tutorial.
The info Riv gave makes a good starting guide for playing chess games at home.
Generally, however, such games are informal, non-reproducible, and difficult to study or learn from if you want to take things to a slightly higher level.
Because they're generally not recorded, except in memory.
Once you know how to record moves, however, i.e. "chess notation", you can begin to study, learn more, and gradually improve.
The link in the post preceding this one is an excellent resource on that; just scroll down once you're on the page it links to.
Actually let me just supply that link as a click-able hyperlink topic right here: Chess: Formal Notation
Very little helps learning more than actually playing through games, and I think playing through explained and illustrated ones help still more.
Let's try to combine what we've learned and go through the Fool's Mate.
Originally posted by riv6672Pawns can move directly forward two squares on their first move only.
Originally posted by riv6672The queen can move in any direction on a straight or diagonal path.
This game is already over.
Black won.
How?
Riv explains:
Originally posted by riv6672The King ...
This piece is the game winner. Once your king is check-mated, the game is over, and your opponent wins, regardless of the score.
By the way, if you're new and wondering, a "check" is the name of an attack on the King.
Normally the king can move out of the way of an attack, have someone "block" an attack by putting themselves in between the king and his attacker, or capture the attacking piece. In this particular situation, the White King can do none of that. The Black Queen could take him on her next move regardless of what he did or even thought to do. Checkmate.
And the name of this particular type of checkmate is the unfortunately named "Fool's Mate", the fastest one known.
Quiz Time!
For the Brave only!
Questions designed to help you improve chess reading and analytical skills.
Answer correctly and win a No-Prize!
Or potentially even a response from me!
Q1. What square is the White King sitting on in the diagram below?
Q2. Why is the following position stalemate? And what does that mean?
Q3. It is Black's turn to play, or was just an instant ago.
However, even though he was threatening checkmate in one move, with the White Queen empowered by the White bishop to take out the pawn in front of the Black King and thus win the game, White instead resigns.
Why? What did White see that Black could do that made White quit?
Q4. It is White's turn to move. He can checkmate Black in 2 moves regardless of what Black does. In fact, the right next move will force Black to move exactly where he wants for the second move to checkmate. What is the algebraic notation for the moves that end this game?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=csotaqjwR7c
Odd TV: Return to Oz.
A scary movie. Given an analysis that is scarier still.
