Chess: Getting Started

Did you know that Chess is played by millions of people worldwide, sometime before the 7th century, chess is considered to have been derived from the Indian game chaturanga. Chess is played by 2 players a strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 square grid.

It consists of 32 pieces

16=Pawns (8 white & 8black)

4=Knights (2 white & 2black)

4=Bishops (2 white & 2black)

4=Rooks (2 white &2black)

2= Queens (1 per side)

2= Kings (1 per side)