[bksvol-discuss] Re: chess book sample
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:31:55 -0700 (PDT)
Jamie, You have such patience. You are wonderful!!!!
Cindy
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--- On Mon, 6/1/09, Jamie Yates <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Jamie Yates <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] chess book sample
> To: "Bookshare Volunteers" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 4:17 PM
> This is page 6 and page 7 from the
> chess book I am working on. Is this adequate for the
> pictures?
>
> 6
> HOW THE PIECES MOVE
> The Bishop
> Each player has two Bishops. The one that starts next to
> the King is called the King's Bishop and the one that
> starts next to the Queen is the Queen's Bishop.
> Bishops move diagonally across the board in any direction.
> They can move any number of spaces in each turn, but they
> cannot jump over other pieces.
>
> This picture shows how the Bishop can move.
> [Picture with a white bishop at d2 and green arrows showing
> that the bishop can move backwards (diagonally) to c1 or e1,
> or forwards (diagonally) to c3, b4, a5 or e3, f4, g5 or h6.
> There is also a red (black) bishop at d6 with green arrows
> showing it can move backwards to c7 or b8, or to e7 or f8,
> or forwards to c5, b4 or a3, or to e5, f4, g3 or h2.]
>
> Puzzle: Can the White Bishop capture any of the pieces
> on this board?* (Answer page 60)
> [Picture: white bishop on d4. White knight on c5. Black
> knight on b2. Black pawn on b6. Black rook on g6. Black
> bishop on g3.]
>
> If there is a piece of its own colour in the way, the
> Bishop has to stop and can go no further along that
> diagonal.
> If there is an enemy piece in the way, like the Knight
> shown here, the Bishop can capture it.
>
>
> 7
> HOW THE PIECES MOVE
> The Knight
> Each player has two Knights: a King's Knight and a
> Queen's Knight. The Knight is the only chess piece which
> can jump over other pieces. It can jump over pieces of its
> own colour, or over enemy pieces.
>
> The Knight can move in any direction, forwards, backwards
> or to either side, but it always has to move three squares
> at a time.
> Wherever the Knight moves it must go two squares in
> one direction and then one square to the side, as shown
> above. It can make this move in any direction, as shown
> here.
> [Picture: Black knight on e5, moving two squares to e7 and
> then either one square to d7 or one square to f7; moving two
> squares to c5 and then one square to c6 or to c4; moving two
> squares to e3 and then one square to d3 or one square to f3;
> or moving two squares to g5 and then one square to g6 or one
> square to g4.]
>
> Since the knight can jump over other pieces, it can
> move at the beginning of the game before the pawns in front
> of it move.
> If the Knight lands on the square of an enemy piece, that
> piece is captured and removed from the board.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jamie in Michigan
> Currently Reading: Dead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland
> www.michrxtech.com/books.html
>
>
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