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Chess Rules - The Pieces

Each player begins with 16 pieces:

The starting set-up for the pieces looks like this:

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This is the starting set-up.

Don't worry about memorizing how to set up the board just yet. We'll take a more detailed look at that later.

First, let's look at each piece individually, and learn how it moves.


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Chess Rules and Basics - Table of Contents
Introduction - Game Overview
The Pieces - The Rook - The Bishop - The Queen - The Knight - The Pawn - The King
Starting a Game - Check & Checkmate - Stalemate
Castling - Promotion - En Passant
Understanding Checkmate - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6
Chess Strategy 101
Chess Notation - Part 2
Where to Go From Here