Chess

Have you ever play chess in the real world? Have you ever heard the abbreviation GM for “Grand Master”? Well, grand master in the chess world is a person who has so many experiences and tactics so he tends to win every time he plays with somebody. Well if you like a tactic game like chess, why don’t you try to play chess on your mobile device? Chess comes with several menus. There are tactics, lesson, video, daily puzzle, and play the game. 

If you choose tactics, you can learn how to make the best move when you are under attack. For example, the queen of your opponent has already attacked to your area, you can encounter with check his king and finally find a way to checkmate. However, if you are a beginner in the game, you can learn chess from the very beginning with entering the lesson menu. 

Here, you learn the components available on top of a chess board. What is the name of each component and how to move it? In the chess, there is a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, and two rooks. In front of them, there are components called pieces. The objective of this game is to capture the opponent’s king. Capture is a term if you take your opponent component with yours so you replace it in the same plot with yours. Each time the king is under attack, the condition is called check. If the king is under attack and can not be moved to save him, the term is “checkmate”. 

Now let’s know how to make a move for each component! First, for the king, it can only move one plot vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The queen can be moved vertically, horizontally, or diagonally as far as she meets another component or capture. The bishops pathway is diagonal and he can go as far as he meets the other component or capture. The knight is a special component because he can go to some plots which make letter L (3 plots horizontally and 1 plot vertically or 3 plots vertically and 1 plots horizontally) from his origin position. The rook’s move is either vertically (straight forward to the opponent) or horizontally (to the left or right side) with so many plots as he can go or until he captures a material. In the chess, there are some alphabet (a to h) and numbers (1 to 8) to mark each plot and make it easier to call which material moves to which plot. Each material also has a code for example k for the king, q for the queen, and n for the knight because k has already used for the king, etc. For the pieces, usually, people do not give a code to make it simple. Each material also has a value. This value marks how important a material is. Queen has a value of 9, rook 5, bishop or knight 3, the piece has 1 and king has no value. You can also learn how to move your material by watching the video in the video menu. The puzzle menu is almost the same with the tactics, but it seems you move your material first before your opponent make a move.

In this game you can play chess within 1, 3, 5, 10 or 30 minutes or 2|1, 3|2, 5|5, 15|10 game. You can also view your statistic of win/loose and you can learn a better move from the computer suggestion. 

Overall playing the chess is enjoying and a lot of fun and also can train you to become the grand master! So are you ready for being a grand master? Well, let’s play this game!