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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Chess, Part One

The description of chess

Chess is a (in my opinion) extremely fun board game in which you use an assortment of  pieces to capture your opponent's pieces.  

The Board
A chess board has 64 squares and are arranged in 8 rows of 8.  The rows on the board are called ranks,the columns on the board are called files and the slanting rows are called diagonals 


The chessmen
Each player uses a set of 16 chessmen, one set is usually black and the other is usually white.  Here  is a list of the pieces and how many there are.

8 pawns, cone shaped pieces with a ball on top.
2 rooks, castle  looking pieces
2 bishops,pawn looking pieces with a tiny ball on top of the other ball  and a slit on the larger ball.
2 knights, pieces that look like the head and neck of a horse.
1 king,a hourglass shaped piece with an oval and a cross on top.
and,1 queen,a pawn shaped piece but instead of a ball there is a crown.

1 comments:

Gramma Suzi said...

I'm glad you are back...and that I am finally on too. I don't know anything about Chess (or I didn't until I read your blog). I know that highly intelligent people always like Chess, which is probably why I don't understand it :) But I do like checkers! Keep writing stuff and I will read it.
Your other writings about the animals, lead, etc. was very interesting; I miss you.

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