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Staunton style chess pieces. Left to right: king, rook, queen, pawn, knight, bishop. The rules of chess (also known as the laws of chess) govern the play of the game of chess. Chess is a two-player abstract strategy board game. Each player controls sixteen pieces of six types on a chessboard. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way.
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
While his parents are on holiday, Fritz White—controlled by the player—is challenged to a game of chess by King Black. Working with his cousin Bianca, and his parents' friend King Kaleidoscope, they travel across the countryside while engaging in a series of minigames, which demonstrate chess piece movements, such as a Ms. Pac-Man-style game demonstrating the rook's horizontal and vertical ...
A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color.
Chess is an abstract strategy board game for two players, involving no hidden information and no elements of chance.It is played on a square game board called a chessboard containing 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
Handicaps (or "odds") in chess are handicapping variants which enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one. There are a variety of such handicaps, such as material odds (the stronger player surrenders a certain piece or pieces), extra moves (the weaker player has an agreed number of moves at the beginning of the game), extra time on the chess clock, and special ...
Blindfold chess – one or both players play without seeing the board and pieces. Chess handicap – one of the players gives a handicap to the other player, usually starting the game without a certain piece. Fast chess – chess played with a time control limiting each player to a specified time of 60 minutes or less (can be as low as 1 minute).
10 Italian Game. 11 King's Gambit. 12 Philidor Defense. 13 Queen's Gambit. 14 Ruy Lopez. 15 Réti Opening. 16 Scotch Game. ... This is a list of chess openings that ...