The back row has what I have dubbed the “power pieces”: pieces that have a greater range of motion (and thus power) than the pawns. The second row is the easiest to set up: all of your pawns are set up on that row. Then we have to put the pieces on the board. When setting up the board, remember that both sides have “white on the right” ie: both sides should have a white space on the bottom right. Think of this as a “How to Play Chess for Beginners Guide.” Chess Board Setup and RulesĪ chess board has 64 spaces total. With all this being said, now is as good a time as any to write an article explaining the basic chess game rules in a concise and easily digestible way for chess beginners. Whether it’s popular shows like The Queen’s Gambit, popular Youtube channels such as Grandmaster Nakamura’s, or the growing popularity of chess themed memes and image macros, it seems that there are many newcomers to the king’s game. Especially now that there is something of a “newbie boom” to the game at the moment. I will admit to you, the reader, that most of the articles I have written thus far assume that the reader is already a fairly avid chess player, who is aware of the basic chess game rules and thus is interested in learning more advanced strategies, traps, and tricks with the goal of decisively defeating the opponent.īut, of course, not everybody is born knowing all the rules of chess-there are, in fact, many out there who are unfamiliar with the game, and need an introduction to learn chess step-by-step.
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