Due to the fact that my friend is trying, ever-so-patiently to teach me to play chess. As he is involved in a series of chess matches in our town. Hence here I am for the last five posts to try to understand at the very basics of chess.
As you undoubtedly know, chess is a game played between two persons, a game played on a board of 64 squares with alternating colours. The 'teams' of each persons consists of sixteen pieces; a king, a queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. The aim is to checkmate the other king, 'checkmate' being when the king is either getting captured or in an inescapable position.
The board is set with the opposing colours at each end of the board, the teams lined up in two rows, with a light or white coloured square to the right hand corner. All the pawns at the front, with the second row containing the rest in the following sequence; the rook, the knight, the bishop, the queen, on her corresponding colour, and the king next to her, the bishop, the knight, and the rook.
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