How can I learn to play chess? (the basics)?

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How can I learn to play chess? (the basics)?

Answer 1

well it is not hard to learn

in my opinon its easier than football

you can yahoo it

Answer 2

find someone who know how to play chess to teach you

Answer 3

Well i cant really explain it . it is too long.

Answer 4

go on http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/i...

Answer 5

go to www.uschess.org and click on new to chess lots of info

Answer 6

I purchased Chess Master 9000 and now I play at chess tournaments every week and I win 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place...

Answer 7

There are learner sets of chess available.  Various webpages and books have instructions on how to play.

Pieces:

8 pawns - start in your second row, move forward only once space, capturing diagional and promote on the opposite end of the board to a rook, bishop or queen.

2 rooks or castle - start in the corners and can move in a straight line and may capture a piece at the end of such a move

2 knights- position next to the rooks; these are leapers ie. can move over other pieces in its path moving in a L moving 2 then 1

2 bishops - next to the knights; these move & capture on a diagonal; each bishop stay on the color they start on.

1 queen - moves and capture either as a bishop or rook and starts on the remaining same color square

1 king - moves one space any direction

The objective is to place the oposing king into checkmate.  Checkmate is the state were the king is being under threat of capture and cannot move out of that threat or another threat of capture.

White (or light color) moves first.

There are a couple of other rules: en-passant capture for pawn and the castling move for the King and a rook but this is the basics.

http://www.chessvariants.org/d.chess/che...

Answer 8

Just read the rules, or better yet, have someone you know set up the board and show you how to play.  

When I was 9 my mom taught me and my brothers how to play by reading the rules in an Encyclopedia (the old kind -- printed on paper) and made a chess set out of checkers for pawns, and an array of little wooden tokens we had for the rest of the pieces.  Later on we got a real chess set.