Chess

What is chess?

Rules

Rules

Inventory

Inventory

Chess Pieces

Chess Pieces

Rooks are equal in value to five pawns, and a queen is equal to nine. Rooks and queen are heavy pieces. The king is the most valuable piece in chess. His loss means that the game is lost.g

ame is lost.

Initial arrangement

Initial arrangement

Pawn

Pawn

Chess knight

Chess knight

Bishop

Bishop can walk any distance diagonally. At the beginning of the game, each chess player has two bishops. One walks on white, and the other on black fields.

Rook

The rook can move any distance horizontally or vertically. The rook and king can castle.

Bishop

Bishop chess archer, can move any number of squares diagonally. It is easy to see that each bishop can move on squares of the same color, either only on white or only on black. On the field of what color in the initial position the bishop ended up, he will walk along the fields of the same color to the end. Therefore, elephants are called white-field and black-field, respectively.

Queen

The queen is the strongest piece on the board. He can move diagonally, vertically or horizontally to any number of squares.

Rook

The rook is a straightforward and powerful piece, the long-range artillery of chess, it can move any number of squares horizontally or vertically.

King

The king can move one square in any direction. Together with the rook, he can perform a special move, castling.

Checkmate

Queen

The queen is the strongest piece, combining the capabilities of the rook and the bishop. Can move any number of free spaces in any direction in a straight line, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.

King

The most important and valuable figure. The goal of a chess battle is to capture the opponent's king, to declare checkmate to him.

The king, like the queen, can move horizontally, vertically, diagonally in any direction, but only one field.

However, once per game, the king has the right to make a more frisky move, castling. If all the pieces standing between the king and the rook have left, and the king and the rook themselves have not yet made moves.

Checkmate