- Chess
- A historical board game played with two opponents.
- Opponents
- Players of a game representing opposing armies.
- Chess Board
- A board with 64 alternating black and white squares.
A chess board consists of rows and columns known as files and ranks.
- Capture
- To move onto a square occupied by an opponent piece.
The opponent piece is then removed from the board. The king cannot be captured.
- Check
- Check is when a piece attacks the opponent king. A player must say,
"check" when attacking the opponent king. The opponent must remove the king from check if possible.
One way is to move the king out of check to a safe square. Another way is to block the attack with a team piece.
The third way is to capture the attacking piece.
- Checkmate
- Checkmate wins the game. A player announces "checkmate" when the opponent king
is unable to get out of check. When a king is being attacked and cannot move to a safe square,
or a piece cannot move to block the check,
or the attacking piece cannot be taken, checkmate has occurred.
- Castle
- To move the king and the rook to opposite sides of each other.
Castle is used to safeguard the king.
- En Passant
- En Passant\on pûsson\ means in passing. On the first move, the pawn may move one or two squares.
En Passant happens when a pawn moves two squares on it's first move.
The opponent pawn then captures the pawn as if it only moved one square.
- Pawn Promotion
- A pawn is promoted when it reaches the last row of the opposite side.
A pawn can then become a queen, rook, bishop or a knight. Most choose to become a queen,
since she is the most powerful piece.
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