A move consists of moving one piece to another square, following the rules that piece must obey. MovesThe players must make a move in turns, the white player begins. So the right top square is 'h8' and the left bottom square is 'a1' (viewed from White, from Black it is just the opposite).Īt the beginning of the game, the board looks as follows:įrom White's point of view the second row is filled with white pawns, the seventh row with black pawns and the first and eighth row with from left to right rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight and rook.
From White's point of view the columns are numbered from left to right with 'a' to 'h', and the from bottom to top with 1 to 8. Every square can be denoted with a combination of a letter and a number. The boardChess is played on a so called chessboard, which consists of 64 squares arranged in 8 rows and 8 columns. Checkmate is when you attack the king, and the opponent cannot make a move which removes that attack. The object of chessThe goal of chess is to checkmate the opponent's king. At the beginning of the board game, every player has 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights and eight pawn. Chess is a board game for 2 persons, where one player plays with the white pieces and the other with the black pieces.
