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Marseillais Chess is February's Recognized Chess Variant of the month.
The following are readers' comments and ratings for the page Illustrated rules of chess.
| Date | Rating | Comment |
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| 25 Mar 2002 | Good | I can't say this page is excellent, because it has the old F.I.D.E. Rules. |
| 21 Mar 2002 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 20 Feb 2002 | Excellent | Eaxctly what I was looking for! |
| 13 Feb 2002 | None | l |
| 4 Feb 2002 | None | Excellent short and complete summary of the rules! My questions were answered. |
| 1 Feb 2002 | Excellent | I was teaching my mother how to play chess and this is a very good set of rules. I don't know the names of some of the pieces so this really helps. |
| 30 Jan 2002 | Good | good |
| 16 Jan 2002 | Good | The description of castling mixes up the coordinates and the team colors according to the positioning diagram at the top of the page. It should read, "When castling, the king moves two squares towards the rook, and the rook moves over the king to the next square, i.e., *black's* king on e*8* and rook on a*8* move to: king c*8*, rook d*8* (long castling), white's king on e1 and rook on h1 move to: king g1, rook f1 (short castling), and similar for black. |
| 15 Jan 2002 | Excellent | your web page saved an argument in less than 5 seconds thankyou |
| 13 Jan 2002 | None | this page is great but should have some stragties for moving including foolsmate |
| 30 Dec 2001 | Excellent | Just got a chess board for Christmas...this is the best site for instructions. Thank you for taking the time. Pete Denk New Jersey |
| 29 Dec 2001 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 28 Dec 2001 | Excellent | Hard to remember them all, but great illustration's |
| 27 Dec 2001 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 26 Dec 2001 | Excellent | i'm a total novice and have never played looks like this will help |
| 25 Dec 2001 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 24 Dec 2001 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 14 Dec 2001 | None | Thank you forthe rule information. |
| 10 Dec 2001 | Good | The information given employs an assumption of understanding prior to attempting the play. Using this page with young people who know nothing about the game, they found the descriptions of moves difficult to grasp. This also would apply to young children who's vocabulary does not reach the level of the words used. Perhaps a second version could be shown so these children could be taught too. |
| 9 Dec 2001 | Excellent | Easy and informative |
| 4 Dec 2001 | None | You forgot to include a draw game when a player has a king with a lone bishop or a lone knight it is impossible to create a checkmate and therfore the game ends in a draw. |
| 22 Nov 2001 | Good | ifp rlayer has have a quen and and his pawn rich the other side its impossible to have a 2 quen |
| 12 Nov 2001 | Excellent | Great! This website has taught me a lot about the basics of chess. I am now the best chess player in my school! |
| 27 Oct 2001 | Excellent | great job it looks nice |
| 24 Oct 2001 | None | I was impressed with your display of rules and want to share it with a young man in our school who I suggested start a chess club. It has been a long time since I have played and am looking for site that will explain the tracking of your moves. I tried to explain that in competition that you record your moves (which he did not know) but I could not recall after 45 years just how to record moves. Would you be able to direct me to such a site or provide me with an explanation I can share with the students. Thank you for your assistance. our e-mail address (for you only) is (email removed contact us for address) izon.net Thank You Wanda |
| 15 Oct 2001 | None | Comment about the image about castling undertitled "Neither white nor black may castle: white is in check, and the black king may not move over d8". White can't castle because is in check, and white can't castle because the king has been moved from his original position. Martin |
| 2 Oct 2001 | Excellent | no comment. |
| 21 Sep 2001 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 8 Sep 2001 | Excellent | This is David Paulowich writing in support of the standard rules for pawn promotion, which seem to be unpopular with some players and chess variant designers. If, for example, pawns could only be promoted to previously captured pieces, then many beautiful games would no longer be legal. My databases contain over 400 games with 4 Queens on the board, 2 White and 2 Black, including: Capablanca - Alekhine, 1927 (Thirteenth World Chess Championship Match, game 11) and Borsony - Koch, 1956 (Second World Correspondence Chess Championship). In 1936 Reinle checkmated Lange in this "extra promotion" game: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 f5 3. exf5 e4 4. Qh5+ g6 5. fxg6 h6 6. g7+ Ke7 7. Qe5+ Kf7 8. gxh8=N# Such games, with one player having nine pieces other than pawns, used to be rare (only ten were played between 1856 and 1963). In modern times the opening: 1. b4 e5 2. Bb2 Bxb4 3. f4 exf4 4. Bxg7 Qh4+ 5. g3 fxg3 6. Bg2 gxh2+ 7. Kf1 hxg1=Q+ 8. Kxg1 (from Kucharkowski - Walter, 1982) has been repeated in over 200 games. Incidentally, White is winning, by about 150 to 50. |
| 5 Sep 2001 | Good | No comment. |
| 3 Aug 2001 | Poor | none |
| 11 Jul 2001 | Excellent | now I feel confident to win my wife in her own game |
| 9 Jun 2001 | Excellent | I am a teacher and am thinking of starting a chess club at school. I am a beginner at the game and was looking for easy to read rules, preferably with clear diagrams. Your site gave me precisely that. The descriptions of taking en passant and castling are succint and precise. |
| 15 May 2001 | Good | I already know how to play and i am very good for 12 years.I wnated pictures so I can make my own chess website. |
| 8 May 2001 | Excellent | ITs really very informative for all chess players and specially for beginers and inter-mediatory level |
| 24 Mar 2001 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 12 Mar 2001 | Excellent | Good detailed info. Helped me a lot. |
| 25 Dec 2000 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 27 Nov 2000 | None | I have updated the Knight move and Castling rules in response to reader suggestions. Thank you to Jan David mol, Jaime (of Palm Beach County FL*) and anonymous contributor, for pointing out the potential confusion! -- D. Howe
*You can stop counting the votes now! :) |
| 27 Nov 2000 | None | The rules on this page concerning castling are incomplete. The rule that the castling rooks should be on the same row as the king should be added. Without this rule, it is legal for white to do e8=R, and castle the next move by doing Ke3 and Re2. greetings Jan David mol, (email removed contact us for address) geance.et.tudelft.nl |
| 26 Nov 2000 | Excellent | Great summary of the rules for one, like myself, who is dusting off childhood chess skills. I don't think I ever knew about taking pawns en passant. Thanks. Jim |
| 19 Nov 2000 | Excellent | No comment. |
| 12 Nov 2000 | Excellent | Thank you |
| 10 Nov 2000 | None | Hi, Thank you for taking the trouble to explain the rules of chess. I was not able to find it on many other chess sites. My careful reading of your page lead to two suggestions that might make a small improvement in your text. (1.) You might consider making the explanation of a knight move more precise. It now says "The knight makes a move that consists of first one step in a horizontal or vertical direction, and then one step diagonally." Note that after making one hirizontal or vertical move, there are up to four possible diagonal moves, but only two are legal, i.e, the two that are in the same general direction and not the two that are coming back. One could say instead: "The knights move one space horizonatly or vertically, and then moves to the space on the right or the left of the next space in that same horizontal or vertical direction." (2.) On taking a pawn en-passant. The your page says "When a pawn makes a double step from the second row to the fourth row, and there is an enemy pawn on an adjacent square on the fourth row, then this enemy pawn may move to the square on the third row that was passed over, and taking the other pawn. ...". A careless reader might not follow this easly, e.g., some of my fellow voters in Palm Beach County, FL. They might think that "the third row that was passed over" refers to: (i.) the row where the enemy pawn can move anywhere on, or (ii.) the row number of the particular space that the enemy pawn can move to. One could say: "When a pawn makes a double step from the second row to the fourth row, and there is an enemy pawn on an adjacent square on the fourth row, then this enemy pawn inthe next move may move diagonally to the square that was passed over by the double-stepping pawn, which is on the third row. In this same move, the double-stepping pawn is taken. ...". Cheers, Jaime |
| 7 Nov 2000 | Good | No comment. |
| 28 Oct 2000 | Excellent | this page is very informational and was very helpful. THANK YOU. FLEE FORTY |
| 9 Oct 2000 | None | I found this page to be very useful and would like to thank you for the help that I received. I believe, although, that you have misworded the section describing castling in that I believe you gave the wrong square coordinates corresponding with the examples. Thank you and God bless. |
| 5 Oct 2000 | Poor | this sucks alot not the web page but chess. Laterz |
| 13 Sep 2000 | Excellent | I found this very helpful. I am a beginner and have been on several different sites which had pages of moves listed like, 1. e4, etc. This is the first site I've found that showed that every square on the board has an alpha-numeric designignation. Thanks for the clarification. John S. |
| 23 Aug 2000 | Excellent | One comment on the castling rule. The conditions for castling do not prohibit castling with a newly-promoted rook on the e-file! I believe that the Laws of Chess have added the stipulation that "the rook and the king are on the same rank". |
| 22 Aug 2000 | Poor | i dont think there should be allowed two queens on a board. i this should be so becuase when you get a pawn to the end of the board it is to get back a piece that was killed. if the queen was not dead, you can not get it back and therefore can not have 2 queens on the board at the same time.!!!!!!! so ha!! |
| 20 Aug 2000 | Good | No comment. |
| 18 Aug 2000 | Excellent | I needed the rukes for an eight year old.... I found this version to be informative and easy to understand... |
| 9 Aug 2000 | Good | No comment. |
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