Chess is a strategy board game, the goal of which is to hunt down and checkmate your opponent's king. Players take turns moving one piece at a time in an effort to attack their opponent's position, and to defend their own. The chess pieces are idealized representations of a medieval army; each player has at his command two rooks (the castle of ancient times), two knights (the cavalry), two bishops (the powerful Church of the middle ages), a Queen and a King (the monarchy), and eight pawns (the lowly foot soldiers).In the following pages, we'll learn how to set up a chessboard correctly, how to move the pieces, and how to carry out special maneuvers like castling, and en passant captures:
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