How Do You Make Basic Moves & Strategy In Chess?
“My name is Mike Powell and I’m here at the chess forums to introduce some basic moves in chess. The last man because all of the pieces that sit on the lower rank are referred to as men, the last piece is called a rook. A rook doesn’t have anything to do, a lot of people think this is just a tower or it’s a castle. It is wrong to refer to this as a castle. It, in modern chess is the elephant. So like an elephant or like a tank the rook only moves vertically and horizontally so it is kind of slow but it is heavy and it is very strong. It can move as far as it wants. The last piece is the pawns. The pawns don’t always serve a function as men. They only do that once they reach the eighth rank or once they have gone all the way across the board. In the beginning a pawn can move forward one square or two squares. After that it can only move one square. A pawn is captured in a way that is different than any other piece. They cannot capture the piece directly in front of them so in this parti