The Secret to Chess Success: Kids Academy Reveals the Truth About Check!

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Learn to Play Chess - What Is Check | Kids Academy

One of the basic knowledge of chess includes the understanding of check and checkmate. In this tutorial let’s focus on checking more and learning to play chess for beginners.

In very simple words, in chess the word check means that the king is under attack and is being threatened by any of the characters on the chessboard. The king is in danger and needs to save himself from getting captured. Since in chess, we don’t capture the king so at the turn before when the king would be captured we say that it's checkmate and the game is over.

Now if you are asking why the only king gets the check, well simply because the king is the most important character on the chessboard. He is the leader of the army and hence the king must be kept safe from any attacks. The main objective of the whole chess game is to protect your own king and attack and surround the opponent's king until it is checkmate and the opponent cannot save their king.

From here the rook can directly attack the black king and hence the king is now in danger, which in chess words means that the king is in check. In the next turn, the white rook will easily capture the black king.

The black king now needs to save himself. The king can save itself using any of the three strategies, either it can capture/attack, it can protect itself, or it can run away. This strategy is explained in another tutorial on the check and checkmate further.

So now you see that the king can be in danger by any of the characters and needs to be saved. You can use further examples to explain even more to your kid.

The more the kid understands the game the more interested he/she would feel in it otherwise it would just become a boring lecture for them to make sure that it is interesting to the kids. Before you teach them first learn how to play chess for kids so that you can explain to them by coming down at their level of understanding.


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