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Rulles:
By convention, chess game pieces are divided into white and
black sets. Each set consists of 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two
rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. The pieces are set out
as shown in the diagram and photo. The players of the sets are referred
to as White and Black, respectively.
The game is played on a square board of eight rows (called ranks,
denoted 1 to 8 from bottom to top according to White's perspective) and
eight columns (called files, denoted a to h from left to right according to
White's perspective). The 64 squares alternate in color and are referred
to as light and dark squares. The chessboard is placed with a light square
at the right-hand corner nearest to each player. Thus, each queen starts
on a square of its own color (the white queen on a light square; the black
queen on a dark square).
Movement
In competitive games, the colors are allocated by the organizers; in
informal games, the colors are usually decided randomly, for example
by coin toss, or by one player's concealing a white and black pawn in
either hand and having the opponent choose. White moves first, after
which players alternate turns, moving one piece per turn (except
for castling, when two pieces are moved). A piece is moved to either an
unoccupied square or one occupied by an opponent's piece, which is
captured and removed from play. With the sole exception of en passant,
all pieces capture by moving to the square that the opponent's piece
occupies.
Moving is compulsory; it is illegal to skip a turn, even when
having to move is detrimental. A player may not make any move that
would put or leave the player's own king in check. If the player to move
has no legal move, the game is over; the result is either checkmate (a