Chess rules

 8x8 chessboard, 64 squares

Black vs. White (even if the pieces are other colors)

10 to the 40th possible games (legal moves only)

   That’s a 1 with 40 zeroes after it

6 types of pieces (king, queen, bishop, knight, rook, pawn)

Crease goes down center, horizontal, between sides

Queen on color (same color)

White goes first

Back row can go forward and backward

Pawns can only go forward (until promotion)

   they capture diagonally

   Promotion is when you reach the opponent’s back row

       (usually becoming a queen, the most powerful piece)

Pawns go one or two spaces, each first move, 

    and thereafter, only one

pawns are in the second rank (2 and 7)

Rooks in corners (not called castles)

    move horizontal and vertical (left, right, forward, back)

    rows are horizontal ranks and vertical files (columns)

    notation: ranks are 1-8, files are a thru h (both from white's perspective)

Knights (not called horses) go in L shapes, start next to rooks

     Knights can leap over other pieces (only piece that can)

Bishops go diagonally

     There’s kings bishop and queen’s bishop, they flank the royals

King goes one space at a time, any direction

Queen has combined ability of bishop and rook, (dominator, annihilator, juggernaut)

Win, objective: checkmate opponent's king

2 special moves: castling and en passant:

 C:   If king and rook haven’t moved, and there are no pieces between them, You can swap the rook into the king’s square, and move the king one space toward rook

 EP: if your opponent moves his pawn 2 spaces instead of one, you can still capture the pawn as if it had moved only one space.  

(the game is a draw if there are no captures or pawn-moves for 50 turns)

there are variations, like 3 person chess

adversarial, "chess is war"

"don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning"

     -Robert Kiyosaki