The Center of the Board in Chess

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Ken and I am here to talk to you today about playing Chess. Now the overall strategy of the game is to capture the King but during this process, one way of doing this is to develop our pieces. When I say our pieces, I am talking about the important pieces; the Knight, the Bishop, the Queen, both Knight's on this side over here and the other Queen and the Rooks are done at the very end. So going through out particular thing, we come out and I'm using the King's Pawn of opening and I've got the correspondence over here. I've moved out my Knight so I am developing it and I am trying to go the center of the board. The correspondent move over here is to bring out this Knight. I now bring out my Bishop, so now I've got 3 pieces focused on the center of the board and the corresponding move is to bring out the other Knight. I then protect this Pawn with another Pawn. I have 2 pieces that I have developed and this person develops her Bishop. I then develop my next Knight over here and this person does what they call a castle. The black castle which is a protected position. I then castle on the white. The next move for me would be to bring out my other Bishop. Now I have all my pieces centered in the center of the board; that's where the real power lies. So the strategy of the game is to bring out the minor pieces, the Knights and the Bishops, the castle to King to protect it and to develop a Queen last. If you develop the Queen first which like many beginning players do, you have a real chance of losing the Queen. So that is basically a no no. A lot of the corresponding things happen from black as well as a way of countering what you have done. So it could be complicated but the idea to remember once again is that we are trying to get our minor pieces, what I mean minor by the Knights and the Bishops to the center of the board and to protect our King in a castle position that is more protected than being in the center. "