Beginners Chess: The Basics

Chess players have their own language when they talk about the game. To keep up, it is useful to know what terms like Castle, Rook, Decoy, En Passant and finally Checkmate mean!

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a square checkered game-board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.

Each player begin...