![]() ![]() He moves two squares in one cardinal direction (up, down, left, or right) and one square in a perpendicular cardinal direction. Unlike Checkers, none of the "jumped" pieces are taken off the board - they are unaffected. The knight is special because it is the only piece that can move over (jump over) other pieces. The bishop can move as far as it is unobstructed along any diagonal. The queen is the most powerful piece on the board, and hence the most valuable, after the king. However the queen can capture any piece in a straight line from the queen, so long as the "line-of-sight" from the queen is unobstructed. The queen cannot move over any piece, and the queen cannot move into the same square as a piece of the same color. The queen can move in a straight line in any of the eight semi-cardinal directions (up, down, left, right, or any diagonal). The king is simultaneously one of the weaker pieces in the game because of its limited movement and yet the most valuable, since threats of capturing the king are central to the winning conditions, as will be described below. The king can move one square up, down, left, right, or diagonally in any direction. Each piece has a white version controlled by the white player and a black version controlled by the black player. There are six types of pieces that can be placed on the squares of the chess board. For the most part, there is no purpose to distinguishing the two types of moves, yet they are distinct. This move is called "capturing" the opposing piece.įor every piece except one (the pawn), the valid moves for a piece are the same as the valid capture for the piece. The opposing color piece is taken off the board and out of play and has no effect on the rest of the game. However, a piece may move into a square occupied by a piece of the opposing color. With the exception of the knight, no piece may move over any pieces of either color. No piece may move into a square already occupied by a piece of the same color. On a player's turn, they may choose one piece and move it according to the legal moves for that piece. Which side each player is on also affects how the pawns move.Įach piece has a different type of legal move. When setting up the board, all of a players pieces are on the closest two rows to that player, and in fact completely fill up these rows. If the chess board were rotated ninety degrees, there would be a black square in the bottom right, and it would not be a valid chess board.Įither the top or the bottom of the board is the white player's side and the opposing side of the board is the black player's side. Notice that there is light square on the bottom right-hand corner. The smaller squares are arranged in a checkerboard pattern so that each light square has a dark square to its top side, bottom side, left side, and right side. 32 of these smaller squares are light squares and 32 of these smaller squares are dark. The board is square, and is made up of 64 smaller squares. Usually, a move consists of the player moving one chosen piece from one square to another square, though there is one exceptional move (castling), detailed below, which consists of two pieces moving during one turn. The core of the game is in how placing pieces in different positions on the board can help one player or the other to achieve the victory conditions. The two players alternate turns, where each turn consists of moving pieces of their color on an 8x8 square board. The two players are called "white" and "black". ![]() The first chess tourney, as we know it, was played in 1851 in London, and chess has been an enduring figure in popular culture for many centuries.Ĭhess is a two-player zero sum board game. As the game matured, additional moves were added to the basic imported ruleset.Īs will be discussed below, the added rules included castling, en passant, and the option to move pawns two squares on their initial move.īy 1500 A.D., the game had morphed into the modern version we play today. However, these earlier versions of the game had quite different rules and also had quite different play styles. It is widely believed that Muslim traders were responsible for bringing the game to Europe, and by 1000 A.D., the game was extremely popular there. In this episode, Bishop and David play very quick games of chess, a variant of chess called speed chess.Ĭhess is a two-player game whose origins can be traced to a game played in India around 500 A.D. ![]() Numb3rs Season 4 Episode 14: Checkmate Numb3rs Season 4 Episode 14: Checkmate ![]()
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