How to Make Advance Moves in Chess

Video Transcript

"Once you learn the basic movements of the pieces, the next thing to consider is castling. Now castling on either side is putting a king in a safe position so that the other pieces can move around them. As you develop the game you will find that controlling the center is an important key but if you are using the pawns to control the center they are moving away from the king and the king becomes a bigger target. So one of the things that we want to do to the king early in the game is castle and the easiest way to figure out castling is that the king goes to the next dark square and the rook goes on the other side of it or this is called castling short or castling to the king's side. The other possibility is castling to the queen's side, in this particular case where there are no other pieces that interfere and no pieces attacking the squares that the king has to cross then the king again goes to the dark square, the rook goes on the other side. This move has two functions. It is not just putting the king in a safer position but it is also creating a position where the rooks are connected so if somebody attacks this rook, this rook defends. If somebody attacks this rook this rook defends. The king doesn't have to be bothered with it. The last rule and the newest rule in chess is something called en passant. It was introduced by Philador and this is the idea that if a pawn reaches past, one square past the half way point he is entering the opposing player's area or area of influence and so if the opposing player wants to try and control a square beyond it say black tries C5 this creates what Philador introduced as en passant or taking in passing and what happens is the white pawn can actually move here. Now the basis of that seems rather strange but the idea is simply this that since the white pawn has gone past the half way point in order for this pawn to go past it it must challenge so the move en passant is the same as instead of black moving here, black move here. Now white can take it. So en passant and en passant position the white is already here and black moves here just as if black had simply played here, white still takes this pawn and that is a special rule which occurs occasionally in games but is not all that common."