Colored moves

Play good moves and avoid the duff ones!

In Chessology, when you move your mouse over one of your pieces, all the squares to which you can move the piece are immediately highlighted.

A highlighted square has a band around its outer edge and is thus clearly visible.

For example, in the diagram, you have move the mouse over your white knight, so all five squares to which you can move the knight are highlighted in white.

Did you notice that one of the highlighted moves allows you to capture an enemy pawn near the center of the board with your knight?

So this looks like a good move. But is it?


No problem!

If you have colored moves turned on, you will be able to tell instantly the good moves from the bad moves!

This is because good moves are highlighted red, bad moves are highlighted green, and in-between moves, well, somewhere in-between!

So, as you can now see in the same diagram, but this time with colored moves turned on, capturing the enemy pawn does indeed look like a good move, because the square containing the pawn is bright green!

And, as you know, green is good!!

Capturing this pawn with your knight is a good move because the pawn has been left undefended.

Besides, it looks like none of the other knight moves are any good as they are all highlighted either red, or orange, which is close enough to red.

In fact, if the knight moves to any one of the squares highlighted red, it can be captured by the enemy on the next move!

Turning on Colored Moves

shows popup menu to select colored moves

When you first start the program, colored moves are turned on by default, so you do not have to do anything.

However, you can use the popup menu to toggle this feature on or off.

Using the mouse, right-click anywhere on the board to display the popup menu.

If you want to turn colored moves on, just click on the menu item labelled Show colored moves.

If you want to turn colored moves off, the menu item will display Hide colored moves and you just click to turn colored moves off.

Next Section

In the next section, you will learn about colored pieces, another very useful feature which warns you if you are about to make either a blunder or a seriously good move!

Colored Pieces