What Is Chess? Rules, Pieces and Objective of the Game
The board, the six pieces, the goal, a dated history from chaturanga to today, how a game flows, and how to start playing today.
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Twenty-five guides for learning chess: the beginner tutorial and the complete rules reference, beginner strategy and game analysis, nine lessons in Hindi, and a three-part series on chess openings for beginners.
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How to Play Chess for Beginners: All the Rules in 7 Steps
The complete tutorial: board setup, how every piece moves, check and checkmate, the three special moves. A board for every rule and two puzzles at the end.
Chess Rules: How the Pieces Move, Check, Checkmate and Draws
All the rules: setup, the movement table, castling, en passant, promotion, check and checkmate, and all five ways a game is drawn.
Chess Board Setup: How to Set Up a Chessboard Correctly
Seven steps with a diagram each: light square on the right, pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, and the queen on her own color.
En Passant in Chess: The Rule, Its Conditions and Notation
What en passant is, the exact conditions, how it's written, why the rule exists, and a position where you can play it yourself.
Castling in Chess: The Rules, the Notation, and When to Do It
The one move that shifts two pieces at once: the four conditions, kingside vs queenside, how it's written, and a position to castle in yourself.
Chess Notation: How to Read and Write Chess Moves
Square names, piece letters, captures, checks, castling and promotion: everything algebraic notation uses, with a scoresheet move to play yourself.
Chess Piece Values: What Every Piece Is Worth
The standard point values, why bishops and knights both count as three, what the exchange is, and when the numbers lie.
Stalemate vs Checkmate: How the Two Endings Differ
One ends the game with a winner, the other with a draw. The exact difference, why stalemate exists, and a position where one queen move mates and another throws the win away.
Chess Strategies for Beginners: 5 Plans for Your First Games
Fight for the centre, develop everything once, run the blunder scan before every move, improve your worst piece, and trade down when ahead. A board for each plan and a position to solve.
Checkmate in Chess: Definition, Rules and Mating Patterns
What checkmate is, how it differs from check and stalemate, the three ways out of check, and five mating patterns with a board each: back rank, scholar's, queen and king, two-rook ladder, smothered.
Pass and Play Chess: Two Players on One Phone
How to play chess with a friend on one phone: the steps, why the board does not flip, the clocks, and house rules for two players on one screen.
How to Analyze Chess Games in 5 Steps
Find the move where the game turned, ask what you saw and what you missed, check the opening, write one lesson. Also covers the evaluation bar and engine scores, with a swing moment on a board and a position to judge yourself.
Chess in Hindi
Chess Kaise Khelte Hain: शतरंज कैसे खेलें, Step by Step
The full tutorial in Hinglish: board setup, every piece ki chaal, राजा, वज़ीर, हाथी, ऊँट, घोड़ा, प्यादा, check aur checkmate, and your first game.
Chess Rules in Hindi: शतरंज के नियम: पूरी गाइड
Setup, movement table, castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate aur draw ke saare niyam.
Chess in Hindi: शतरंज: Piece Names, Meaning aur Basics
Chess ko Hindi mein शतरंज kehte hain. Har piece ka Hindi naam, zaroori chess terms, and where the game came from.
Chess Board Setup in Hindi: बोर्ड कैसे लगाएँ
Saat step, har step par ek board: light square dayein, pyade, haathi, ghoda, oont, aur wazir apne rang par.
En Passant in Hindi: सबसे अजीब चाल, आसान भाषा में
En passant kya hai, teen shartein, notation, aur ek board jahaan aap khud yeh capture kar sakte hain.
Castling in Hindi: कैसलिंग के नियम और सही समय
Chaar shartein, kingside bनाम queenside, notation, aur kab castle karna sahi hai: ek playable board ke saath.
Chess Notation in Hindi: चालें कैसे पढ़ें और लिखें
Squares ke naam, pieces ke akshar, capture aur check ke symbols, aur ek famous game move-by-move.
Chess Piece Values in Hindi: किसकी कितनी कीमत
Pyada 1, ghoda 3, oont 3, haathi 5, wazir 9. Yeh number kahan se aaye, trade mein kaise use karein, aur kab jhooth bolte hain.
Stalemate vs Checkmate in Hindi: फर्क क्या है
Dono mein chaal nahin bachti. Farak sirf ek baat ka: raja shah mein hai ya nahin. Ek board par dono dikhaye gaye.
Chess openings
The seven opening principles
The seven habits that carry every opening: take the middle, develop with a purpose, castle early — and why they beat memorized lines.
Choosing your first opening
A twenty-game test that finds the opening that fits how you actually play, instead of the one a list told you to learn.
Best chess openings for beginners
Nine openings worth learning first, each with its position on a board, what it wants, who it suits, and a move-by-move course.
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