
Hello friends, from this lecture you will learn a chessboard better. Yo will also learn how to arrange all pieces on board to start a game.
Learn how the rook moves in straight lines, blocked by own pieces and able to capture opponent pieces; practice puzzles to build visualization, planning, and minimum-move strategies.
Learn how bishops move diagonally, staying on their colored squares, with open diagonals and no jumping; solve bishop puzzles by opening lines through pawn moves and planning minimum-move captures.
The queen blends rook and bishop power, moving across the board like both pieces. It controls the most squares, cannot jump, and captures by replacing opponents' pieces.
Master the king’s short-range moves: one square in any direction, unlike rook or bishop, and solve simple puzzles to capture stars efficiently while the king coordinates the army in endgames.
Learn to capture opponent pieces in chess with safe, minimal-move sequences that protect your own pieces, using rook, bishop, knight, pawn, and queen.
Learn how stalemate differs from checkmate, recognize when the opponent has no legal moves, and practice avoiding stalemate to secure a win or draw in chess endgames.
Learn how castling, a king-rook move, safeguards the king and activates the rook. Follow rules: vacant squares between, unmoved king and rook, and safe jumping and landing squares, with 0-0 for short and 0-0-0 for long.
En passant is a pawn-only capture. A white pawn on the fifth rank captures a pawn that moves two squares and passes adjacent, on the immediate next move.
Discover how piece values guide exchanges in chess, with pawns 1, knights and bishops 3, rooks 5, queens 9, and the king infinite, plus seeking favorable trades.
Learn how to checkmate a lone opponent king using a single rook with king support. Corralling the king into a corner through blocking ranks and files and waiting moves.
This course is suitable for absolute beginners to chess. Those who want to learn chess from scratch. This course is also useful for those who cannot attend live batch as this recorded course will give you flexibility. Those who think, I know movement of all the pieces and I can play chess or I know basics of chess; for them also, to advance further, this course would be of great help. Because, Basics of chess includes not only movements of pieces but there are so many rules and concepts which everyone should definitely know before actually starting to play a game.
This course contains:
History of chess
Introduction of chess board
Board setup
Introduction of chess pieces
Movements of pieces
Capture
Protection
What is check
Get out of check
What is checkmate
What is stalemate
Notation of the moves
Special moves - Castling and En Passant
Value of the pieces
Winning material
Draw material
How game can be draw
Elementary checkmates
Opening principles with examples
After every section video, you can also download pdf document too related to same topic. Document explains the concept and also includes some exercise for practice and better understanding.
By the end of this course, you will be completely aware of all the rules of the game and you can start playing your first game. After this course, you are eligible to learn intermediate level course.