![]() ![]() There is another variation on the usual one step forward, only available to pawns which have not moved yet. Thus, a pawn can move one square diagonally, but only when capturing. For a pawn captures diagonally forward, and not straight ahead. A pawn can always move one square forward, except when the destiny square is non-empty. PawnThe pawn can only move forward, but there are some variations in its movement which depend on the position of the pawn and the goal of the move. The pieces the knight jumps over are not affected. The knight is the only piece that can jump over other pieces to travel from one square to another. ![]() KnightThe knight makes a L-shaped move, which is a combination of 1 square horizontal or vertical, and one diagonal. In other words you cannot place the king on a square when your opponent could capture the king next move. The king may never enter a square which is threatened by an opposing piece. KingThe king can move horizontal, vertical and diagonal like the queen, but only one step at the time. The queen can move horizontal, vertical and diagonal in a straight line and may not jump over other pieces. ![]() This makes the queen the strongest piece on the board. QueenThe queen combines the movement of a rook and a bishop. Like the rook, the bishop cannot jump over other pieces. The rook cannot jump over other pieces, all squares between the rook's current square and its destination must be empty.īishopThe bishop moves diagonally in a straight line. RookThe rook moves vertical or horizontal in a straight line. There is one exception to this move, castling, which allows both your king and your rook to move.ĬapturesIf a player moves one of his pieces to a square occupied by an opponent's piece, this piece is removed from the board.īelow is explained which kind of moves the pieces are allowed to make: 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. ![]() The changes which took place in the fifteenth century were aimed at allowing the pieces to develop faster, and make the game more exciting.Chess is a board game for 2 persons, where one player plays with the white pieces and the other with the black pieces. It is present in all other types of chess around the world. History Chess piecesĪs the simplest piece in chess, the pawn was in the oldest version of chess, Chaturanga. Players usually promote their pawns to a queen because it is the next most-powerful piece on the board. Once a pawn reaches the other side of the board and cannot move further, it is promoted, meaning it can become any other piece on the board, except the king. We have no record of why the rule was added, but it is easy to see that it works to prevent the position becoming blocked and uninteresting. The en passant move was added in late fifteenth-century Europe, to make up for the then newly added two-square first move rule. To capture en passant can only be done on the move right after the double-square pawn advance. The first pawn is removed from the board. The taking pawn moves into the empty square over which the first pawn moved. If it passes over a square guarded by an enemy pawn, that pawn can take the first pawn "in passing" as if the first pawn had moved forward only one square. The white pawn moves from d5 to c6 and the black pawn is removedĮn passant happens when a pawn uses its first-move option to move two squares forward instead of one. En passant capture, assuming that the black pawn has just moved from c7 to c5. ![]()
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