Learn Chess Terminology


	Learn Chess Terminology

simplesimon7733

9-3-2009 8:42 PM

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Describes four common chess terms in detail. These terms include tactics, strategy, first move advantage and special chess moves.

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</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html"><H2>Tactics</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html">Tactics are one or more moves played to gain a short term benefit. Benefits normally include gaining a material advantage (simply means having more pieces or more valuable pieces than your opponent), positioning a pawn, guarding the king or controlling more space.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html"><H2>Strategy</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html">Chess Strategy is the act of playing multiple tactics to achieve a long term predetermined outcome.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html"><H2>Special Moves</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html"> Special chess moves include en passant (taking a pawn during the first two square move); castling (moving the king through the rook); and pawn promotion (replacing the pawn with another piece when it reaches the other side of the board).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html"><H2>First Move Advantage</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://chessforbeginners.blogspot.com/2009/08/ches-for-beginners-chess-terminology.html">This simply implies that the player who moves first (white) has a slight advantage over the player who moves second (black).</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC4C2243-AD51-4FFF-876B-DAFD8F7DBCFE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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