Help chess is so hard to learn

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Books are useless chess is about playing as you play more and more you gain confidence in how to check mate and make dangerous moves as well as you learn to became more careful and less reckless.

if books are useless top GMs would not spend hours reading chess books, writing chess books, having favourite chess books.

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Anonymous1502

Original post by Tabstercat

if books are useless top GMs would not spend hours reading chess books, writing chess books, having favourite chess books.

They are good for advanced players but not for those who are beginners first you need to gain real experience and once you are quite good then you use books to increase your knowledge

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pawns: pieces on the front row that can move one for ward every turn, unless it is the first turn then you have the choice of moving them 2 spaces. They capture pieces diagonally and if moved to the opposite side of the chess board i.e. from the 2 row to the 8 row or 7 to 1 then you may promote them. promoting a piece entails the pawn and after it has moved to the opposite side of the board you may promote into a bishop rook knight or queen. queen is the most common choice but sometimes knight or if playing with friends on a physical board you might promote into something that your opponent has taken. pawns have a ball on the top of them usually

knights: Knights are the only piece that can move over other pieces, meaning that they do not need a clear path to capture a piece like every other piece in the game. knights move in L's i.e.2 spaces forward then one left or right 2 spaces back then left or right or 2 spaces sideways then forward or back. knights can be very valuable due to the fact that they can jump over pieces and they can strike at a queen which is the most powerful piece on the board, but they also have a very weird move pattern so they are hard to use. because knights can jump over pieces they are very valuable in the opening. knights are shaped like a horse's head

Rook: a Rook is shaped like a castle tower. then can move any amount of spaces vertically or horizontally as long as the path is not obstructed by either yours or your opponents pieces. they cannot move diagonally but can be on all 64 squares of a chess board making them more valuable than a bishop and more valuable than the knight because knights are very tricky to use and are considered by many to be the worst special piece in the game

Bishop: much like the rook in the sense that they can move as many times in a path as long as it is unobstructed by a piece, but bishops move diagonally instead of vertically or horizontally. you have two bishops the dark and the light bishop. they are named this because they are on their color for the entirety of the game because they only move diagonally.

Queens: The queen is the most powerful piece on a chess board, combining the rook and the bishops set of moves into one piece. the queen is able to deliver checkmate the most commonly out of any piece in the game, it strikes at the weak points of both the bishop and the rook the only piece that can stand up to it is the knight but that is easily diffused by simply moving the queen one space.

King: the king can move one space in any direction but cannot be moved into a space where it is able to be captured and if the opponent can capture you king you must make a move that makes it so that you cannot be captured anymore and the game ends when your opponent puts you into checkmate which consists of the king being in check and no matter the move the king is not able to be taken out of check.

Castling: the king and rook can castle if neither of them have moved and there is nothing in between them. you cannot castle if you are in check or if castling moves the king through a square that is in check. castling moves the king 2 spaces towrds the rook insteasd of 1 and the rook moves to the side of the king that the rook was opposite of. castling is common because you then have your rook able to be in play faster while protecting your king because it now has a wall of pawns in front of it.

En Passant: this is a rule in chess where if your pawn is on the 5 row and your opponent moves a pawn forward 2 squares(in one turn the enemy pawn hasnt moved yet) so that now your opponent's pawn is adjacent to your pawn for the turn after that move and that turn only you may capture your opponent's pawn by moving one forward and diagonaly so that your pawn is now behind your opponents pawn that you just captured. i know i didnt explain this rule very well but GothamChess explains it much better on youtube. After you learn how to move the pieces watch his videosbecause they are super good and will make you a better chess player and he is just a really great guy, you should totally check his stuff out.