How to Play Chess with the Right Strategies
Since its inception in 1475 in southern Europe chess has always been an intellectual game of strategies. And even long before that, in around 600 AD, its earlier Indian version was said to have been a military game of strategies. Therefore, chess is a contest of who has the best strategies in the game. And where strategies are concerned basic rules play an important role.
To master its strategies we need to master first the basics on how to play chess. It's like what they say about how we need to learn to walk first before we can run. Chess has lots of good strategies but we need to start with the very basics. Like exploring a chess board, for instance. Many players note that chess boards have numbers 1 to 8 on the sides and letters A to H on top and below. Some may casually know what they're called 'coordinates' but very few know what they're for.
Again, very few understand the parts of a chess board. If we want to understand chess jargon especially with reference to the board we have to know the different parts of it. Chess literature will refer to coordinates and the parts of a chess board with regards to fundamental strategies. Thus, we need basic knowledge on them if we want to be chess conversant.
The different chess pieces, aside from having different names, have various abilities and functions. No one chess piece is negligible - not even pawns. All pieces in the game have a certain role and use that we can't do without. Each piece has a role to fulfill in basic chess strategies. From simple pawns to ruthless bishops to decisive queens and burdensome kings�all have major tasks to win specific battles to win the overall war.
We have to learn the principles of capturing, checking, castling, pawn en passant, pawn promotion, checkmate, stalemate, and others (all crucial in knowing how to play chess) before we can start looking into simple winning strategies in chess. Chess is not a game of luck. With other games we may win without much knowledge by simply having lady luck by our side. With chess, we win with the right strategies.
Though it takes tedious planning initially, in the end, winning in chess is like leading a lightning-fast assault team from taking secure positions to making the final kill. Think like an army general; then we get the essentials on how to play chess and win it too.