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Chess Explained in Fewer Than 160 Words

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Chess, But Explained In Fewer Than 140 Characters




Pieces move like this: Knights travel in an L-shape, Bishops move on diagonals(dark and light squares), Rooks move up the ranks and files(ranks are horizontal squares, files are vertical squares), queens can move on the diagonals and ranks and files, they cannot travel like Knights.

King and Queen checkmating a lone king

  


The objective is to checkmate the king or flag them(time them out) if played with time control. There are three parts to the game, opening, middlegame, and endgame. 

An opening called the Queen's Pawn Game, or d4 with chess notation


Books on Opening, Middlegame, and Endgame Play

Middlegame plans



In the opening, white moves first. The objective in the opening is to take the center(first four squares), centralize all the minor pieces to aim in the center of the board, both bishops, and knights, and also develop. The middlegame is either to make a plan, like attacking the queenside or kingside of the board. 
An endgame in chess


The endgame is when all the pieces are traded off, and they are playing for promotion toward the end of the board.

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