Overview

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. In recent years, chess has become part of some school curricula.

Each player begins the game with 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each of the six piece types moves differently. The objective is to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. To this end, a player's pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, while supporting their own. In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by voluntary resignation by the opponent, which typically occurs when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may also result in a draw in several ways, where neither player wins. The course of the game is divided into three phases: opening, middlegame, and endgame.



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Module 1: Board Setup

Chess is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to and eight columns (called files and denoted with letters a to h) of squares. The colors of the 64 squares alternate and are referred to as "light" and "dark" squares. The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram and photo, with each queen on a square of its own color.

The pieces are divided, by convention, into white and black sets. The players are referred to as "White" and "Black", and each begins the game with 16 pieces of the specified color. These consist of one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.

Module 2: Movement

White always moves first. After the first move, players alternately move one piece per turn (except for castling, when two pieces are moved). Pieces are moved to either an unoccupied square or one occupied by an opponent's piece, which is captured and removed from play.
Each chess piece has its own style of moving. In the diagrams, the dots mark the squares where the piece can move if no other pieces (including one's own piece) are on the squares between the piece's initial position and its destination.

• The king moves one square in any direction. The king has also a special move which is called castling and involves also moving a rook.

• The rook can move any number of squares along any rank or file, but may not leap over other pieces. Along with the king, the rook is
involved during the king's castling move.

• The bishop can move any number of squares diagonally, but may not leap over other pieces.

• The queen combines the power of the rook and bishop and can move any number of squares along rank, file, or diagonal, but it may not
leap over other pieces.

• The knight moves to any of the closest squares that are not on the same rank, file, or diagonal, thus the move forms an "L"-shape: two
squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically. The knight is the only piece that can
leap over other pieces.

• The pawn may move forward to the unoccupied square immediately in front of it on the same file, or on its first move it may advance two
squares along the same file provided both squares are unoccupied (black "●"s in the diagram); or the pawn may capture an opponent's
piece on a square diagonally in front of it on an adjacent file, by moving to that square (black "x"s). The pawn has two special moves: the
en passant capture and pawn promotion.

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