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The white time player always goes first, the decision about who should play as white depends on the two persons who are playing; either flip a coin, a game of rock, paper, scissors, etc. The players then alternate turns until the end.

Each piece of the two teams move differently to each other, and you should note that pieces cannot move through other pieces, or onto a square with any of your own pieces on; except the knight who can jump over them. The aim with moving your pieces is to either defend your own pieces or gain control of important squares, or to capture your opponents pieces.

To capture a piece you simply replace them with your own.

Strategy wise you need to play and practise and take a look at the rules to discover your own methods, although each match is not going to play out like in any strategy books as no situation is going to be exactly the same.

However here are some basic rules to strategy to guide yourself by;
no.1 - Protect your king.
You should attempt to get your king to a corner as soon as. It doesn't matter how close you are to checkmating your opponent if you're checkmated first.

no.2 - Don't give pieces away.
Not if you can help it. As each piece is worth something and is important, as you can't win a game with no pieces to checkmate the opponent with. The system I was told to keep track of the value of each piece was; a pawn is 1, a knight is 3, a bishop is 3, a rook is 5, a queen is 9 and the king in infinite. The value isn't involved with anything aside your own understanding of what you are throwing away with a bad move, or if a piece gets taken.

no.3 - Control the centre.
If you control the centre you will have the most room to move your pieces around and will restrict your opponent from being able to do the same.

no.4 - Use every piece.
Your pieces are to be used, you should try and move all your pieces around, don't reserve any of them. That way you have more opportunities to attack the king, only using one or two won't work against a practised player.