> Though such a cheat sheet may not be made anytime soon, doesn't mean
> information about it can't begin being gathered and discussed.

> The basics:
> The set up of the board to begin with, noting that the lower left
> corner of each player is black, and lady (queen) gets her color.
> How each piece moves w/ symbolised pieces and arrows demonstrating
> these moves
> Visual on castling
> Visual on En Passant
> a small image of each of the pieces from a commonly used set

> Terms and definitions:
> ranks - rows on a chess board, denoted by numbers 1 to 8, from White's
> side to Black's side
> files - columns on a chess board, denoted by the letters a to h,
> White's left to right
> check - The player's king is in danger of being captured.
> checkmate - The player is unable to save their king (game ends in
> loss).
> stalemate (scholars mate) - When a player has no legal moves available
> (game ends in draw).
> promotions - A pawn advancing to their farthest rank is replaced by
> the owning player's choice of Queen, Rook, Bishop or Knight.
> En Passant - (including pronunciation?) A pawn moving two squares may
> be captured by adjacent pawns as though it only moved only one square,
> but only on the immediately following turn.
> Castle - For an unmoved king to move two squares towards an unmoved
> Rook, and the Rook being moved to the other side of the king.  The
> King may not be moving in, though, or out of check.  There may be no
> pieces between the King and Rook.

> Other things that may fit on the sheet:
> Elo System
> Chess Titles
> Move Notation

> At some points, I keep getting tempted to mention items pertaining to
> variations of Chess.  Further consideration suggested to me that Chess
> variations had enough information to justify its own sheet.

> Great idea, and nice content outline. I've added "Chess" as a request
> to the list. This is definitely one I'd like to do - I playchess
> (badly) and a cheat sheet would have been useful when I was learning,
> all those years ago!

> Dave

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Levi Watts <viruswa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Though such a cheat sheet may not be made anytime soon, doesn't mean
> > information about it can't begin being gathered and discussed.

> > The basics:
> > The set up of the board to begin with, noting that the lower left
> > corner of each player is black, and lady (queen) gets her color.
> > How each piece moves w/ symbolised pieces and arrows demonstrating
> > these moves
> > Visual on castling
> > Visual on En Passant
> > a small image of each of the pieces from a commonly used set

> > Terms and definitions:
> > ranks - rows on achessboard, denoted by numbers 1 to 8, from White's
> > side to Black's side
> > files - columns on achessboard, denoted by the letters a to h,
> > White's left to right
> > check - The player's king is in danger of being captured.
> > checkmate - The player is unable to save their king (game ends in
> > loss).
> > stalemate (scholars mate) - When a player has no legal moves available
> > (game ends in draw).
> > promotions - A pawn advancing to their farthest rank is replaced by
> > the owning player's choice of Queen, Rook, Bishop or Knight.
> > En Passant - (including pronunciation?) A pawn moving two squares may
> > be captured by adjacent pawns as though it only moved only one square,
> > but only on the immediately following turn.
> > Castle - For an unmoved king to move two squares towards an unmoved
> > Rook, and the Rook being moved to the other side of the king.  The
> > King may not be moving in, though, or out of check.  There may be no
> > pieces between the King and Rook.

> > Other things that may fit on the sheet:
> > Elo System
> >ChessTitles
> > Move Notation

> > At some points, I keep getting tempted to mention items pertaining to
> > variations ofChess.  Further consideration suggested to me thatChess
> > variations had enough information to justify its own sheet.

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