Strategic Chessboard

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The chessboard is so placed that each opponent has a white square at his right-hand corner. The sixty-four squares form vertical files and horizontal ranks. A file is a row of 8 squares going from top to bottom, while a rank is a row of 8 squares going from left to right. A chessboard thus consists of eight files and eight ranks. The players move alternately, that is the player with white pieces makes the first move of the game, and then black moves, and so forth. Only one move can be made at a time and the way to make a move is to take one of your pieces and place it onto another square. When you have done that, your turn is over, and it's the opponent's turn.

Only one unit can occupy a square at a time. If one of your opponent's units occupies a square that you could move one of your pieces to, then you can move your unit to that square and take your opponent's piece off the chessboard at the same time. This is referred to as "capturing a piece." When you capture a unit, you move one of your units to a square occupied by one of your opponent's pieces, thereby removing the enemy's piece from the game. Once a unit is ...
... captured, it's removed from the chessboard for the remainder of the game. Conquering enemy pawns is a vital step towards checkmate. Just as the larger army usually has the advantage in a battle, so in Chess the player with extra forces is more likely than his adversary to win the game.
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