This chess games glossary is divided into 3 parts and is dedicated to avid players around the world. The first part for these skill games focuses on the chessboard and strategy followed by chess terms in 2 parts.
Chess introduction includes a chessboard layout graphic and description of chess pieces. Arguably, the most popular of skill games, gamerisms believes that chess games should be categorized as strategy games.
Board skill games use a central tool to track a player’s status and progress.
All board games maintain turn-based play in that one player’s move/strategy is followed by their opponents’ move/strategy. Players can only move at their turn.


Chess Games Glossary: Chess Pieces
King: The king moves in a chess game to any square adjoining his own, not occupied by another piece. The king is banned from moving to a square where he is exposed to capture and cannot occupy any square next to the opposing king. In moving the king to a square occupied by a hostile man, the player captures that piece.
In certain cases, the king and the castle move at the same time. That move is called castling.

Rook: The rook moves from its square on to any other square in the same rank provided it does not bump into any barriers according to chess game rules.

Bishop: The bishop moves from his square to any other square in his diagonal provided he does not bump into any barriers according to chess game rules.

Queen: The queen may make any chess game move that a rook or bishop is able to make.

Chess Games Glossary: Pawn and Knight
Pawn: The pawn moves one-step forward, except in its initial position, when it may move one or two steps forward.
 If the square in front of the pawn is taken, the Pawn is blocked, and cannot move forward at all until the barrier has been removed.
The Pawn captures a hostile man placed one-step diagonally forward.
This rule is modified by the capture, also known as en-passant or in passing.
If when a Pawn is moving two steps from its initial position, passes an enemy Pawn standing on its own fifth rank, on either of the next adjoining files, the latter Pawn, if desired, has the right to capture the hostile Pawn en-passant. That capture or en-passant is done in the same way as if the hostile Pawn had moved only one-step.
Additionally, when a Pawn by any route has reached the eighth rank of the board, this chess game piece ceases to be a Pawn. At that time, it has to be changed into any piece of its own colour, except the King. This chess game rule holds true even when a piece should have to be supplied from another box.

Knight: The Knight moves on to any square not occupied by a man of its color that it can reach by proceeding in any direction two squares on its rank or file and one square at right angles thereto. If a square within reach, according to games rules, is occupied by a hostile man, the Knight may capture that man by placing itself on that square. Therefore, the Knight always moves to a square of the other colour.

Chess Games Glossary is followed by chess terms A - D
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