Chess Pieces and the Rules of Movement
Thinking about learning how to play chess The first step is to gain a good understanding of the capabilities and limitations of each of your chess pieces. Chess pieces can have different values and capabilities. Every chess set is made up of a certain number of chess pieces, which usually consist of one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and 8 pawns. A player can obtain extra bishops, knights, rooks, or queens by having one of their pawns reach the opponents side of the chess board. One of the players has chess pieces that are all white and the other player has chess pieces that are all black, so the sides are referred to as black and white. In the game of chess, the word piece can have three unique meanings. The first meaning that it can have is just any one of the actual chess pieces in the chess set, including all of the pawns. The second meaning that piece can have is any of the chess pieces except for pawn, so usually to refer to either the rook, bishop, queen,