Play a rousing game of chess against the computer or against someone who is online at the time.
Due to a recent Chess addiction I've been having with some friends, I thought why not do this really quickly. Don't worry, Claire B starts soon!In This Video. Try playing an online chess game against a top chess computer. You can set the level from 1 to 10, from easy to grandmaster. If you get stuck, use a hint or take back the move. When you are ready to play games with human players, register for a free Chess.com account! Play Chess Online for all levels. Hints for beginners. Thousands of players online now. A: The Chess Titans 64-bit version was specially designed for 64-bit Windows Operating Systems and performed much better on those. The Chess Titans 32-bit version was initially intended for 32-bit Windows Operating Systems, but it can also run on 64-bit Windows Operating Systems. Chess Titans is an application that builds by ElDiabl0. The Games pack bundled with Windows Vista and Windows 7 included some some nice piece of software like Chess Titans, Mahjong Titans and Purble Place and some card games. Microsoft decided not to include the Games pack in Windows 10, as it now offers Modern or UWP version of some of those games from the Windows Store, which are ads supported.
When you begin playing the game, you'll see that the graphics and the intricate details of the game are striking. Each piece is carefully mastered so that it looks like you could pick it up off of the board. This is a classic game with a simple layout. There aren't any fun sounds or themes to choose from in the game. All you get is a chess board and the pieces, allowing you to concentrate on moving around the board and defeating the opponent. Even though there isn't the glitz and glamour that you might find in other board games, it's still fun to play and soothing for the mind.
If you're a beginner, there are a few hints offered to help you understand how each piece can move and where you should move on the board in order to win the game. After you have mastered the basics of the game, you can change the difficulty level for a challenge. This means that the computer you're playing against is a bit tougher, and you will be paired with people who have quite a few wins under their belt. Although you can't really change the background, you can change the material of the pieces, such as crystal or wood, giving a beautiful display for the game. To move the pieces around the board, you will use the keyboard or the mouse to pick up each piece before shifting it to where you want it to go on the board.
Pros
- Simple chess matches
- Calming game play
Cons
- Not as many customized details
Chess Rules
Chess is one of the oldest known board games still played to this day. The rules of chess have varied greatly since its invention, but by now have been fairly standardized and commonly known. The rules presented here are the basic rules of the game of chess, but a detailed overview of how the game is played can be found at Wikipedia or the official ruleset of the International chess federation.
Queen's Gambit
Since the chess TV show the Queen's Gambit has recently been very popular we've temporarily changed our hardest opponent, Ann, and renamed her to Beth (as in Beth Harmon, the protagonist from the Queen's Gambit). We'll put Ann back in a few days 🙂.
Setup
The game of chess is played on an 8x8 checkered board, where the rows are marked from 1-8 and referred to as 'ranks' and the columns marked from 'A' to 'H', referred to as 'files'. The square marked as 'A1' should be black. The player controlling the white pieces places his pieces on ranks 1 and 2, and the player playing the black pieces places his pieces on ranks 7 and 8. The pawns are placed on ranks 2 and 7. The other pieces are placed on ranks 1 and 8 as followed, starting from the 'A' file: A rook, a knight, a bishop, a queen, a king, a bishop, a knight, and a rook. The player who has white goes first, and players alternate moves after that.
The Aim of the game
The game can end under the following circumstances:
- If your opponent's king is under threat of capture, but your opponent has no legal move to prevent that capture, you have won. This is referred to as 'Checkmate'
- when either player concedes the game.
- when a player takes too long in making their move. On this site we give each player 60 seconds to make each move, and a total of 15 minutes for all their moves before the game is forfeit.
- If a players king is not under threat of capture but that player has no legal moves anyway, the game is a draw.
- The game is also a draw if any of the following situations come up:
- Neither player has enough pieces to be able to checkmate
- The same board position is repeated three times
- 50 consecutive turns have passed in which neither player has moved a pawn nor captured a piece
- The players agree to a draw
Making a move
The six pieces move as follows:
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- The Bishop can move any number of squares along the diagonal.
- The Rook can move any number of squares along the same rank or file.
- The Queen can move any number of squares along the same rank, file, or diagonal.
- The Knight moves to the closest square that is neither on the same rank, file, or diagonal. Essentially the knight moves in an 'L' shape, two squares along a rank or file and then a single square perpendicular.The knight is the only piece that can 'jump over' other pieces.
- The Pawn moves one square along the file, always towards the opponent's side of the board. The first time a pawn moves it is allowed to move two spaces along the file instead of one granted it has the space. A pawn can only capture a piece imminently along the diagonals in the direction of travel, not along the file it is currently travelling.
- The King can only move a single square in any direction, with the exception of castling (see below). The King can never place himself in a check.
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Placing a king in check
When a player makes a move in which any of his pieces threatens to capture the opponents king the next turn the king is said to be in check. A player in check must make a move that results in the check being relieved; be that by moving the king out of the way, capturing the threatning piece, or placing a piece in between the king and threatning piece. A player that has no legal move out of the check has lost the game (referred to a Checkmate). A player can be placed in check by multiple pieces at once, and must get out of all checks at once. A player can not remain in check. A player may never make a move that results in his own king being in check.
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Special moves
- En passant refers to a special move open to the pawns. When a pawn is moved two spaces from his starting position and is placed next to an enemy pawn, the enemy pawn can capture the pawn as it had only been moved a single square. For example, assume a white pawn is placed at B5. the black C7 pawn is moved to C5. The White player can move the B5 pawn to C6, and capture the C7 pawn. The player can only utilize en passant on the move directly following the opponent moving the pawn in question. The right expires as soon as his opponent makes the next move
- Castling refers to a special move open to the King and Rooks. If neither the King nor Rook has been moved during the game, the rank separating them is clear of pieces, and during the castling process no space the king will move over or end on is under attack by an opponent piece, the player can move his king two spaces towards the rook, and the rook on the opposite side of the king. For example, assume that the white king on E1 and the white rook on A1 have direct line of sight and have not moved. The white player can, in a single move, move the king two spaces left (to C1) and the rook three spaces right (to D1). The player could also castle kingside, moving the king to G1 and the H1 rook to F1.
- Promotion is a special move granted to the pawns. If a pawn manages to reach the far end of the board (white pawns to the 8-rank, black pawns to the 1-rank) they are automatically promoted. The player must state a piece (Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen). The promoted pawn is then transformed to the declared piece. A player might thus have a maximum of 9 Queens on the board, the one he started with and one for each of the 8 pawns that he potentially can promote. By the nature of the game pawns can not promote to a king, nor remain pawns.