Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a
chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight
grid.
It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people
worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.
Each chess piece has its own style of moving. In the
diagrams, the dots mark the squares where the piece can move if no other pieces
(including one's own piece) are on the squares between the piece's initial position
and its destination.
The king -
It moves one square in any direction. The king has
also a special move which is called castling and involves also moving a rook.
The rook -
Can move any number of squares along any rank or
file, but may not leap over other pieces. Along with the king, the rook is
involved during the king's castling move.
The bishop -
Can move any number of squares diagonally, but
may not leap over other pieces.
The queen -
Combines the power of the rook and bishop and can
move any number of squares along rank, file, or diagonal, but it may not leap
over other pieces.
The knight -
Moves to any of the closest squares that are not
on the same rank, file, or diagonal, thus the move forms an
"L"-shape: two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two
squares horizontally and one square vertically. The knight is the only piece
that can leap over other pieces.
The pawn -
May move forward to the unoccupied square
immediately in front of it on the same file; or on its first move it may
advance two squares along the same file provided both squares are unoccupied;
or it may move to a square occupied by an opponent's piece which is diagonally
in front of it on an adjacent file, capturing that piece. The pawn has two
special moves: the en passant capture and pawn promotion.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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