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Object of the game:
To establish a possition by which you can get the opponent's King checkmate
Chess is played by two opponents, "White" and "Black," who take turns marking their moves. White always makes the first move. The chess board1 has 8 horizontal rows ("ranks") and 8 vertical rows ("files"). Each now is therefore made up of eight squares.
All 64 squares are used in the play, and in order to make it easier to tell them apart, they are alternately light-colored ("white squares") and dark-colored ("black squares")1.
The Opening Position:
At the beginning of a game, each player has 16 chessmen2. The names of the pieces are:
- King (one)
- Queen (one)
- Rooks (two)
- Bishops (two)
- Knights (two)
- Pawns (eight)
Important:
Remember that the right hand corner square nearest the White must be a white square. Also, you must remember that at the opening position the two Queens face each other along the same vertical row ("The Queen file"). Each Queen is placed on a square of its own color, the White Queen on a white square and vice versa. Both Kings face each other across the King file. Pawns belong on the second row, in front of all the pieces, and each one is named according to the piece it stands in front of -- or, to put it in another way, for the file on which it stands.
