Royal Chess

Description

Chess is played on a 8x8 squared board. The board is often labeled with letters and number for the sake of notation.

Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces which can move in defined ways. For more information about movement, see the movement section under game rules. Each player starts eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen, and one king.

One player moves the white pieces and the other player moves the black pieces; white always goes first. The players alternate moving one piece at a time to an unoccupied space or space occupied by an opponent piece. This is called capturing. Captured pieces are removed from the board.

When a player's king is in danger of being captured, that player is said to be in check. When in check, a player must make a move to remove his/her king from check.

The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent. A checkmate occurs when the opponent's king is in check, and there are no moves that remove the king from check.

Normally a checkmate will require the cooperation of several pieces, but can also be achieved with one. A player who deems checkmate is inevitable may concede the game, resign, to the other player. A draw is also possible.