Chess

=Chess= (by Vince)

Chess is a very old game. It is believed that around 1475, a game called shatranj is modified into modern chess.

In Chess, you get a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks and 8 pawns.

Here is how you can move them:
 * The King can move in any direction but can only do so one square.
 * The queen can also move in any direction but can do so with any amount of squares. The direction, however, has to be straight.
 * The bishops can move diagonally base on the colour they were originally positioned in. You will have two bishops; one will be position on a white square and the other on a black square.
 * The knights can move like an 'L'. This means that you can move it one square to a direction and another 3 squares to a different direction. Unlike all the others, this allows you to move the knight over other pieces.
 * The rooks is like the queenn and bishops, it can move as much squares as possible. However, it can only move horizontally and vertically.
 * The pawn may seem useless but is can be an asset to you later in the game. A pawn moves one square towards the other opponent most of the time. However, on its first move, you can decide wether that pawn moves 2 square or 1. If an opponent's piece is northeast of northwest of your pawn, you can capture that piece by moving your pawn to that direction. This is the only a pawn captures an opponents piece.
 * A pawn can be an asset to you later in the game, especially when your queen or another important piece is captured by the opponent. By getting the pawn to the reach the end of your opponents side(this can be hard to do), you can swap it with important pieces that was captured by your opponent. For example, if you loss a queen, you can trade your tiny pawn for it.

I hope you learned some basic stuff about chess. If this interests you, try it out... You might love it like I do...