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| Chess - Introduction | | Chess, game of skill between two people that is played using specially designed pieces on a square board comprised of 64 alternating light and dark squares in eight rows of eight squares each. The vertical columns on the board that extend from one player to the other are called files, and the horizontal rows are called ranks. The diagonal lines across the board are called diagonals. | | How Chess is Played | Each player controls an army comprised of eight pawns and eight pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks (sometimes called "castles"), two bishops, and two knights. Although the term pieces is sometimes used to refer to all 16 chessmen, it usually does not refer to pawns. The two armies are of contrasting colors, one light and the other dark, and are always called White and Black regardless of their actual colors.
| | Moves of the Pieces | | White always moves first, and the players then alternate turns. A move consists of transferring a man to another square that is either vacant or occupied by an opponent's man. If it is occupied, the opponent's man is captured (removed from the board and replaced by the capturing man). The only exception is the king, which is never captured (see Object of the Game below). A move to capture is not required unless it is the only possible move. Only one piece may be moved each turn except when castling (see below). All pieces except the knight move along straight, unobstructed paths; only the knight may move over or around other pieces. The king moves one square in any direction, but not to a square that is attacked by an enemy piecethat is, a square to which an enemy piece can go on the next move. The queen moves as far as desired in any uninterrupted direction. The rook moves as far as desired in any horizontal or vertical direction. The bishop moves as far as desired in any diagonal direction, but is confined to squares of the color on which it began the game. The knight moves a distance of exactly two squares to a square of the opposite color. The path of the move resembles the letter Ltwo squares horizontally or vertically combined with one square at a right angle. The knight may go over or around any piece in its way. | | Object of the Game | | Each player's goal is to attack the enemy king such that the king cannot deflect or remove the attack and cannot escape. When a king is attacked, it is "in check." Check does not have to be announced, but the player whose king is in check must attempt to escape on the next move. There are three possibilities: (1) moving the king to a safe square, (2) capturing the attacking piece, or (3) cutting off the attack by interposing a piece or pawn between the attacking piece and the king. If none of these moves is available, the king is checkmated. Checkmate ends the game at oncethe king is never actually capturedand the player who gives the checkmate wins. The word "checkmate" (often abbreviated to "mate") comes from the ancient Persian shah mat, meaning "the king is helpless (defeated)." |
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