AВ rookВ can move any number of squares along a rank or file, but cannot leap over other pieces.The king also has a special move called castlingВ that involves also moving a rook. TheВ kingВ moves one square in any direction.In the diagrams, the dots mark the squares to which the piece can move if there are no intervening piece(s) of either color (except the knight, which leaps over any intervening pieces) If the player to move has no legal move, the game is over the result is eitherВ checkmateВ (a loss for the player with no legal move) if the king is in check, orВ stalemateВ (a draw) if the king is not.Д®ach piece has its own way of moving. A player may not make any move that would put or leave the player's own king inВ check. Moving is compulsory it is illegal to skip a turn, even whenВ having to move is detrimental. With the sole exception of en passant, all pieces capture by moving to the square that the opponent's piece occupies. A piece is moved to either an unoccupied square or one occupied by an opponent's piece, which is captured and removed from play. White moves first, after which players alternate turns, moving one piece per turn (except forВ castling, when two pieces are moved). In competitive games, the colors are allocated by the organizers in informal games, the colors are usually decided randomly, for example by a coin toss, or by one player concealing a white pawn in one hand and a black pawn in the other, and having the opponent choose. Each set consists of 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns. the light set may be a yellowish or off-white color, the dark set may be red), they are always referred to as 'white' and 'black'. While the sets may not be literally white and black (e.g. The rules of chess are published by FIDEВ ( FГ©dГ©ration Internationale des Г‰checs), chess's international governing body, in its Handbook.Д¬lassic Chess PieceВ are divided intoВ white and black sets. Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8Г—8 grid.

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