Chess Setup King And Queen: Simple Steps to Set Up the Board and Play by the Rules

Chess is played on an 8x8 board with 64 squares.

Each player starts with 16 pieces: a king, queen, two rooks, knights, bishops, and eight pawns.

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The board is set up so that the bottom-right square is white.

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The queen is always placed on her own color, white queen on white, black queen on black.

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Pawns move forward one square but capture diagonally.

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Knights move in an L-shape: two squares in one direction, then one square perpendicular.

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Bishops move diagonally any number of squares.

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Rooks move horizontally or vertically any number of squares.

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The king moves one square in any direction.

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The primary goal is to checkmate the opponent’s king.

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