Chess

You have one king. This piece is the player you are supposed to capture from the other player but if he/she takes your king first you will lose. The king can only move one step at a time. The queen can move in all directions and so many steps she wants to go. She is worth 9 points. Then you have two rooks that can only move forward and sideways and they are worth 5 points. You have also got two horses. They are very special because they can jump over the other pieces that no one else can do. The horses walk 2 steps in one direction and one step in another and they are worth 3 points. The two bishops can only move in the diagonal direction, and they are worth 3 points. You have also got eight pawns and they are very special. I am now going to explain a little more about them. From right to left on the board beside, you can see the
rook, the horse, and next is the bishop, the queen, the king, and the bishop again, the horse and, at last the rook.

The pawns can only move one step at a time. In their first move they can go two steps if you want, but only in the very first move with every piece. The pawns capture other players diagonally. But the pawns can only move forward and when a pawn comes up to the other player’s side it can be exchanged into another piece for example a queen or a horse.

The white player always starts. The game is all about to capture the other player’s king. When you make a move and you in your next move can capture the opponent’s king you have to say check, so the other player can move the king away or place another piece in its way. But if the king can’t move or if you can’t protect your king, then you are checkmated and have lost the game.

If one player can’t move any pieces and the king isn’t checked
it ends in a draw (which means that no one wins). Or if both players think that it’s a locked game they can offer each other draw. If they both accept that the game will end in draw.
The king and the rook can make a special move, it’s called castling. You can do it if the king or the rook hasn’t moved yet. You can choose to make the castling on the queen’s side or the short side. If you castle you must ensure that your king is not under attack when he moves to his place, and there can’t be any pieces in the way of the king. If you make the queen’s side the king comes upon no: 1c (or 8c if you are black) and the rook comes upon no:1d (or 8d if you’re black). If you want to do the short castling the king comes upon no: 1g (or 8g if you are black) and the castle comes upon no:1f (and if you’re black on 8f).

Now over to the “en passant” rule. “En passant” means while passing in French. In this special move the pawn captures a pawn from the other team.
When the opponent’s pawn moves two steps forward and comes next to your pawn you can capture the opponent’s pawn in his “first” step just as you normally do. But you can just do this the move exactly after his move, not later.