New BGA Chess Wiki and Beginners' Tutorial

[Sammy McSam]

Hi chess enthusiasts

Just wanted to draw attention to:

1. The new BGA Chess wiki page
2. The new BGA Chess Tutorial (alpha)

Please do give feedback for either by replying here and let's make BGA even more amazing!

[JDplayer]

Nice! The tutorial is quite wide ranging in its coverage, including things like discovered check, but it's all stuff you could encounter in a game of chess! Perhaps good for people who've seen the game once or twice before at least. The wiki page seems thorough and accessible (I've only glanced through it).

[Sammy McSam]

Thanks for the feedback JDplayer!

The main focus of the tutorial is identifying when it is 'check' and 'checkmate' as this is critical to understanding legal moves. This is why it is made clear when pieces cannot move (because it would place their own King in check) and also that moving a piece (that itself does not give check) can result in check which must be resolved immediately (a 'discovered' check).

As an experienced chess teacher, the thought of explaining all the rules of chess in one session (and using only one example game!) is quite a challenge. I hope you'll agree that by the end of the tutorial, beginners would have met all the learning objectives which are to learn how to:
1. use board coordinates
2. move each piece
3. 'castle'
4. promote a pawn (to a Queen)
5. check
6. checkmate!

[JDplayer]

Yeah true - you had to define what you wanted to achieve in a short tutorial. Nicely done.