Definition of chess piece Chess piece
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What does chess piece mean?
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| chess piece - any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | ||
| chessman | ||
| man, piece game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" | ||
| chess set checkerboard and a set of 32 pieces used to play chess | ||
| bishop (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | ||
| rook, castle common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow | ||
| king (chess) the weakest but the most important piece | ||
| knight, horse a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | ||
| pawn borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan | ||
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chess piece
A token that is used for playing chess.
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Summary.
Pawn - A pawn can only move ahead, to the far end of the board. A pawn is placed in each square on the second row away from each player at the beginning of a game, right in front of all of their other pieces, so each player begins with eight pawns. Most times, a pawn can only move to one square, the square in front of it. But a pawn that has not moved yet in the game can move ahead two squares, or just one. Very often, the first move is that the white player moves his "king's pawn" (that is, the pawn in front of the king) two spaces forward.
If an enemy piece is straight in front of a pawn, the pawn cannot capture that piece. Pawns have a special way to capture. A pawn can capture an enemy piece which is on the square left or right of the square straight in front of it. This is the only time a pawn can move to a square that is not straight in front of it.
If a pawn reaches the end of the board, it is removed and replaced by any other piece except for a king.
If a pawn moves two squares on its first move, it may be taken (on the opponent's next move only'") by an enemy pawn as if it had moved only one. This is called "en passant" (French for "in passing"). But even very good players do not use this rule very much.
Bishop - A bishop can move any number of squares "diagonally", meaning, if you pretend the bishop is in the middle of a big X, it can move to any square along the lines of the X. Because of this, a bishop will be on the same color of squares for the whole ga
