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The game is played on a chessboard, consisting of 64 squares: eight rows and eight columns. The

squares are alternately light (white) and dark colored. The board must be laid down such that

there is a black square in the lower-left corner. To facilitate notation of moves, all squares are

given a name. From the view of the white player, the rows are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; the

lowest row has number 1, and the upper row has number 8. The columns are named, from left to

right, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. A square gets a name, consisting of the combination of its column-letter

and row-number, e.g., the square in the lower left corner (for white) is a1.

Alternately, the players make a move, starting with the white player (the player that plays with the

white pieces.) A move consists of moving one of the pieces of the player to a different square,

following the rules of movement for that piece - there is one special exception, named castling,

where players move two pieces simultaneously.

A player can take a piece of the opponent by moving one of his own pieces to the square that

contains a piece of the opponent. The opponents piece then is removed from the board, and out of

play for the rest of the game. (Taking is not compulsory.)

At the start of the game, the position of the pieces is as follows.

Thus, at the second row, there are eight white pawns, at the seventh row, there are eight black

pawns. At the first row, from left to right, we have a: rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop,

knight, and rook. Note that the queens start of squares of their own color, with a dark square in

each players left hand corner.

Movement of the pieces

Rook

The rook moves in a straight line, horizontally or vertically. The rook may not jump over other

pieces, that is: all squares between the square where the rook starts its move and where the rook

ends its move must be empty. (As for all pieces, when the square where the rook ends his move

contains a piece of the opponent, then this piece is taken. The square where the rook ends his

move may not contain a piece of the player owning this rook.)

Bishop

The bishop moves in a straight diagonal line. The bishop may also not jump over other pieces.

CHESS

Chess is a game played by two players. One player

plays with the white pieces and the other player plays

with the black pieces. Each player has sixteen pieces

in the beginning of the game: One King, One Queen,

two Rooks, two Bishops, two Knights, and eight Pawns.