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Phases of Chess 101

Phases of chess are how the best chess players think and play chess.
Chess is divided into three phases, known as the Opening, the Middlegame, and the Endgame.

 The opening is moving your pieces from their starting positions to take up active posts ready to do battle in the middlegame.

The Middlegame

The general rule of when it is the middlegame is once the pieces have been deployed and the kings have castled to safety. 
The Endgame
Kinda like the Avengers: Endgame, the endgame of chess is where most of the pieces have been captured and only a few remain. Some players will call any position without queens an endgame.
Usually, the players don't have enough pieces left to easily checkmate the opponent's king, so strategy in the endgame generally revolves around getting a pawn to the other side of the board to make a queen. 

Lesson 1.  How To Play Chess 101
Lesson 2. Chess 101 Moving the Knight
References
"Phases of the game" (n.d.). Phases of the game. Retrieved from  https://www.chessstrategyonline.com/content/tutorials/basic-chess-concepts-phases-of-the-game

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