Chess - branching out

Today we had student led workshops and I chose the chess workshop run by Luke. Luke taught us how to  start a game and end a game as well. To start the the game one of the best possible ways is to have your pawns infront of the king and queen out two spaces. Then, you need to put the pawns beside those two pawns out one space. After that you should move your knights out so they are infront of the pawns that are blocking the rook from getting out. This is a very good start because you can castle, the pawns are protected by the pawns behind them, and the knights are out which are very good for the middle of the game.  I hope to use some of these new moves in my next game.

He also taught us how to check mate with a king and a queen. At some points Luke

was unhelpful when he was cheating while we were playing him.