Queen's Gambit Move in the Game of Chess

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Ken and I am here to talk to you about playing Chess. We talked about two different openings. The last opening we talked about was the Queen's opening, so let's just review that. The Queen's Pawn comes out 2 spaces, as I've just done here. Now the correspondence from the back is to come out 2 spaces as well, as we see right here. Now another variation of this is what is called the Queen's Gambit. Either the King's Pawn has moved out 2 spaces or the Queen's Pawn has moved out 2 spaces. This attacks this Pawn. This Pawn then has to usually kick the Queen's Gambit,accepts the Gambit which is what it is called. The next move for the white is to move out 1 space on the King's Pawn, thus opening up the Bishop to take the Pawn. If you look over here on the black side, there is no really way to protect the black. You cannot protect the Pawn with this and there is no way to come out accept to bring the King the Queen out and one of the golden rules of playing Chess is to always leave your Queen into the very last moment, so that's the Queen Gambit and the next move here would be for the Bishop to take the Pawn. This brings the Bishop to the center of the board. The idea of the strategy is to make the pieces come to the center of the board. By coming to the center of the board, you will find that you have more control over the pieces and they are more powerful in the center. One of the objects of the game is to try and take the center of the board. By the way, I just knocked over my King which means I conceived this game. Thank you very much. "