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Chess is one of the oldest known board games still played to this day. The rules of chess have varied greatly since its invention, but by now have been fairly standardized and commonly known. The rules presented here are the basic rules of the game of chess, but a detailed overview of how the game is played can be found at Wikipedia or the official ruleset of the International chess federation.
The game of chess is played on an 8x8 checkered board, where the rows are marked from 1-8 and referred to as 'ranks' and the columns marked from 'A' to 'H', referred to as 'files'. The square marked as 'A1' should be black. The player controlling the white pieces places his pieces on ranks 1 and 2, and the player playing the black pieces places his pieces on ranks 7 and 8. The pawns are placed on ranks 2 and 7. The other pieces are placed on ranks 1 and 8 as followed, starting from the 'A' file: A rook, a knight, a bishop, a queen, a king, a bishop, a knight, and a rook. The player who has white goes first, and players alternate moves after that.
The game can end under the following circumstances:
The six pieces move as follows:
When a player makes a move in which any of his pieces threatens to capture the opponents king the next turn the king is said to be in check. A player in check must make a move that results in the check being relieved; be that by moving the king out of the way, capturing the threatning piece, or placing a piece in between the king and threatning piece. A player that has no legal move out of the check has lost the game (referred to a Checkmate). A player can be placed in check by multiple pieces at once, and must get out of all checks at once. A player can not remain in check. A player may never make a move that results in his own king being in check.
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Multiple languages supported. Submitted on 9/17/2017 Review title of L.D.Good chess communityVery stable with a huge player base from all over the world. One gets to play with French, Russian, German, Turk, Egyptian, et.al. At any level of difficulty one would care to. The players are pretty much self disciplined with out all the childish BS found in many of the card rooms. The only change I would recommend at this time would be to change the method of scoring.
If someone times out it counts as a win/loss situation but not as a checkmate and I have had some players when faced with a loss to just let the clock run out to prevent the mate. Universal theme park rides.