How to play chess (explained by a Master)

How to play chess/Learn the rules of chess:
0:22 How to set up the chess board
1:18 How the rook moves
1:35 How the bishop moves
1:46 How the queen moves
2:03 How the king moves/Game objective
2:21 What is 'check'? / What does checkmate mean?
3:55 How the knight moves
4:36 How the pawn moves/captures
5:43 Pawn promotion
6:22 How does En passant work?
7:56 How to castle in chess
10:06 What does stalemate mean?
10:55 Draw by 50-move rule
11:18 Draw by Perpetual check
11:44 Draw by threefold repetition
12:27 Draw by insufficient material

A big thank you to those below who've offered to freely translate this video's English Captions. Each has played a big part in opening new doors to the game.

Arabic by Mamdouh Ismail
Chinese by Tianmi
Czech by Mikuláš
Dutch by Dirk Maes
French by Guillaume Voiron
German by Tianmi
Greek by Kostas Kokkalidis
Hindi by Vipul Tripathi
Hungarian by Tamás
Italian by Davide Luigi
Norwegian by Stian
Polish by Chris Bryzek
Portuguese by Nando
Spanish by Martín
Swedish by Seymour_Stein

[ChessNetwork]

Many thanks in advance to those who pass along this video to the non-chess players of the world. 😎
Beginner to Chess Master playlist:

[matthewgrogan]

"You can promote all of your pawns to queens, if you would like to do that."

I would, yes.

[CherrylMaree]

Thank you. Doctors have strongly suggested playing chess to help my husband's memory and I have been struggling to understand the game enough to help him.

[Uros]

Even though I've been playing chess for over 5 years and have known the rules for 10 years I still watched the wideo all the way through... such pleasant voice and even more pleasant way of speaking... you're incredible Jerry!

[gemini_ghost]

The most clear instructions I have seen on how to play chess. Thank you!

[gabrielquintana]

I smoked a blunt & got high & started wondering how tf chess is played (me being a simp) thinking it’s easy but HELL props to ppl who are dedicated to playing this peace of art

[liana]

Wow I went to chess class for 2 months and barley learned anything but in 13 minutes I learned how to play the hole game and yes I will pass this video

[JorisvanLeeuwen]

Love to hear and watch you play! You got me into playing.. around 1200 in ranking now, studying daily trying to get up to a level where I can enjoy playing bullet tournaments.

[HyzerJAK]

Excellent video! Before this video I had never found a clear, concise, complete video on the rules of chess, so I'm glad someone finally made one!

[LisaLisa-]

Hi Jerry
Thank you for teaching us old fogies how to play CHESS for the first time! I feel Young again!
However I will be replaying your tutorial many times before I attempt at competing with my 11 year old son.
Lisa

[RF-gttr]

Been wanting to learn chess for years but every time I start to learn I give up after 1 minute, literally.
WIth this video I had several "AH HAH" moments. Thanks!

[ryvr.]

the queen's gambit got us all f**ked up chile! Knight to G6 gurl!

[vehement.]

Everyone keeps on saying it’s difficult but I found it personally really easy, I love it already! Thank you 😊

[lilsatanex]

Who here has never watched queens gambit

[MicroControl]

Playing chess is my biggest hobby and I still loved watching this introduction for the very beginners. Great job, Jerry!! Thank you!! I will pass it along to all my friends who always found my explanations too complicated :-D

[CaballusKnight]

Playing chess casually for years, I was watching this video to see how you explained the rules, and then I saw the 50 moves stalemate rule, it blew my mind I did not know about this before.
Great video!

[TheDawg]

I have just started learning the rules by playing Chess on my PC and this tutorial helped me a lot =)

[marfeddewrwz]

The only thing I didn't like about this video was that you started to talk in terms of algebraic notation without explaing it, and that you talked about the value of the pieces, without explaining what is it for(so to speak).
This was just constructive criticism. Dont take it wrong!

[jonathanknight]

You are great Jerry, Spreading chess to all of those who don't already know. Love you man, hope you continue to do great things.

[Mattslayerable]

you have a great ability to express yourself and teach