Chess

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Chess Chess is a game, played by two players. One player plays with the white pieces, and the other player plays with the black pieces. Each player has sixteen pieces in the beginning of the game: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. The game is played on a chessboard, consisting of 64 squares: eight rows and eight columns. The squares are alternately light (white) and dark colored. The board must be laid down such that there is a black square in the lower left corner. To facilitate notation of moves, all squares are given a name. From the view of the white player, the rows are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; the lowest row has number 1, and the upper row has number 8. The columns are named, from left to right, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. Thus, at the second row, there are eight white pawns, at the seventh row; there are eight black pawns. At the first row, from left to right, we have a: rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook. Note that the queens start of squares of their own color, with a dark square in each player's left hand corner. Alternately, the players make a move, starting with the white player (the player that plays with the white pieces.) A move consists of moving one of the pieces of the player to a different square, following the rules of movement for that piece. A player can take a piece of the opponent by moving one of his own pieces to the square that contains a piece of the opponent. The opponent's piece then is removed from the board, and out of play for the rest of the game. The rook moves in a straight line, horizontally or vertically. The rook may not jump over other pieces, that is: all squares between the square where the rook starts its move and where the rook ends its move must be empty. The bishop moves in a straight diagonal line. The bishop may also not jump over other pieces. The queen has the combined moves of the rook and the bishop, the queen may move in any straight line, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. The knight makes a move that consists of first one step in a horizontal or vertical direction, and then one step diagonally.

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