Chess Knowledge

About Chess Knowledge

Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made up of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares in each row and column. Each player starts with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one kingChess is a game played between two opponents on opposite sides of a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors. Each player has 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns. The goal of the game is to checkmate the other kingThe oldest recorded game in chess history is a 10th-century game played between a historian from Baghdad and a pupil. A manuscript explaining the rules of the game called Matikan-i-chatran (the book of chess) in Middle Persian or Pahlavi still exists.