Chess

THE GAME OF CHESS

The game of chess is played between two people, with one person using the light pieces and the other using the dark pieces. The object of the game is to capture the opponent’s king, a condition called “Checkmate”. Checkmate occurs when the king is attacked and cannot escape being captured.

The person playing with the light chess pieces gets the first turn, and then each player takes a turn moving his/her pieces, moving only one piece each turn (except when “Castling”, a technique which will later be further explained.) A player may move his/her pieces onto unoccupied squares only, except in the case of capture of an enemy’s piece that is on the square where the piece is to be moved.

In the setup of the chess board, the light queen goes on a light square, as the dark queen goes on a dark square, with the king occupying the very next spot. The opposing king and queen of each player are placed directly opposite each other on the last row of e...