The number 1 starts on the side with the white chess pieces and the number 8 starts on the side with the black pieces. The board has 64 squares, 32 squares are dark and 32 are white squares.
There are rows or ranks and files. A row consists of 8 horizontal squares. A file consists of 8 vertical squares. There are long and short diagonals. Make sure to place bishops on open diagonals where they can show their optimal power. Back to — Chess Strategies for Beginners. An easy way to remember is that the queen wants to match her outfit. White queen on the light square; black queen on the dark square.
At this point there will be only one vacant square, so your king should naturally take his place. In chess, the player with the white pieces always moves first. You can decide who plays White and who plays Black through any method of chance. One way is to hide a white pawn in one hand behind your back and have your opponent choose.
If you want to get a game going, there is a chessboard already set up for you at Chess. Part 1. All rights reserved. This image may not be used by other entities without the express written consent of wikiHow, Inc. Set the board so that the bottom-right square is a light square.
Both players will have a light square in the right corner on the edge of the board closest to them. The setup for each player looks identical from their perspective. You set up your pieces on the two horizontal rows "ranks" closest to you. The major pieces go on the first rank. The pawns go on the second rank. Unlike in checkers, chess uses every single square on the board. When setting up your chessboard, a tip to keep in mind is that White is always on rank 1 and 2 and that Black is always on ranks 7 and 8.
Place your rooks in each corner. Start with your rooks sometimes called castles , which are tall pieces that move in straight lines horizontally along "ranks" and vertically along "files".
Place a rook on each of your two corners. On a novelty board, such as Civil War sets or movie-themed pieces, it may be impossible to tell what a piece is without knowing the icons or rule-book symbols which may be marked on the bottom of the pieces. Place the knights next to the rooks. The knights, which look like horses, go just to the right and left of the rooks.
Knights move three squares in an "L" shape, first two spaces in one direction, then one space in another, or first one space in one direction, then two in another. Knights can hop over pieces to make their moves, being the only pieces allowed to do so. Place the bishops to the inside of the knights. The tall, round-topped bishops start next to the knights.
Bishops move only along diagonal lines. The left bishop will start on a dark square and always remain on dark. The right bishop starts on a light square and always remains on light. Place the queen on the remaining, matching-color square. If you are the white side, your queen goes on the remaining white square in the middle of the first rank. If you are playing black, your queen goes on the remaining black square.
The queen is one of the tallest pieces in the game and has a spiked crown. She can move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally any number of spaces, making her the most powerful piece on the board.
Place the king on the last open square of the first rank. The king is usually the tallest piece on the board and appears to wear a rounded crown often topped with a cross.
The king can move in any direction but only one space at a time. You use the rest of your pieces to protect your king. If you lose your king, you lose the game.
Place the pawns along the second rank. After you've put your major pieces on the first rank, line up the lowly pawns like a protective wall on the second rank. Pawns move forward one space at a time, but they can make a variety of special moves, too.
Once both players place their pieces like shown above, they're ready to play. Review your pieces. Part 2. Win the game by "checkmating" your opponent's king. This occurs when the king cannot escape check no matter what. By contrast, your opponent's king is merely "in check" if you could capture him on your next move but the opponent has a means of escaping. A player must immediately move their king out of check if it's possible to do so. Once it's apparent that a king cannot avoid being captured on the next move, checkmate is immediately declared, and the game is over.
Some players like to say "check" when they make a move that puts the opponent's king in immediate danger. You may not place your own king in check. Such a move is considered "illegal" and must be immediately rescinded. Capture the opponent's pieces to remove them from the game. If one of your pieces makes a move that ends on a square already occupied by an opponent's piece, you "capture" that piece and remove it from the game.
Your piece then takes the captured piece's place on that square. You cannot capture your own pieces or occupy any square with more than one piece. In other words, you cannot move a piece through or to a square already occupied by one of your pieces—with the exception of your knights. They may move over any other piece but may not end a move on a square already occupied by one of your pieces.
With the exception of the pawn , you can capture pieces only with a "normal" move. For example, rooks can capture only with vertical or horizontal moves. You cannot move over a piece to capture another one. If your piece "hits" another piece during its movement, it stops, captures the piece, and stays on that square.
The knight is the only exception to this, as it takes a piece only when it ends a move by landing on that piece's square. Begin with White. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile.
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