My mom said so and is the piece next to the king and queen called camel or bishop? Is horse called knight? I last piece called elephant? Please answer. I need hep on these questions.
2007-05-30 04:53:08 · 23 answers · asked by meerapatel6 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Board Games
The way I explain the starting line-up to children to whom I have taught chess is that it is like a panoramic school photograph: the members of staff in the middle, the tallest pupils in the senior school next to them and then outwards in descending order of height ... with the junior school pupils sitting cross-legged on the ground in a second row in front of them.
It is simplest to read the FIDE Laws of Chess, as it is all explained clearly, with diagrams, eg of the starting position.
FIDE is the international chess body known by the acronym of its name in French (Federation Internationale des Echecs)
See link below
You need to connect the "Queen on her own colour" rule to the "White square at the right" rule. They are intimately connected.
If you get the board the wrong way round, then you are likely to get the queens on the wrong colour, so as to get them "looking right" (on the left of the King for White, and on the right of the King for Black) or if you blindly follow the "queen on her own colour" rule you find that your openings don't look right when you try to play them.
So check the board is the right way round and that the White pieces are at the a1-h1 end of the board, before you start the game!
2007-05-30 11:40:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest way to answer this question is to describe the pieces to you and tell you where they go. First, on the row closest to you, place the rooks (the castles) on the first and last column. Next to these pieces you will place the knights (which are the horses). Then place the bishops (which look like the tall pawns with a mouth). The king and queen are more difficult. Place the queen on the tile that matches the color of your pieces. You opponent will do the same, hence the kings and queens will be opposite from each other. Oh, and the pawns fill the entire row immediatly in front of the back row.
2007-05-30 07:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by Zachary I 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The queen always goes on her own color and the last piece on the bottom is the rook or castle. The horse is a knight and the pieces next to the king and queen are bishops.
2007-05-30 10:06:19 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Thinker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King and King on same line, and so also Queen and Queen! Bishop is the international terminology, not Camel: Knight, and not Horse (In Indian Chess, it is Horse!): the piece on the flanks, is Rook (Elephant in Indian Chess). Pawn is some times known (in India) as Soldier. Queen is known, likewise, as Minister!
2007-05-31 00:38:29 · answer #4 · answered by swanjarvi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Queen always starts on her color. The Queens will be facing each other. The pieces next to the king/queen are bishops, then on either side of them are the knights and then the rooks.
2007-05-30 06:21:56 · answer #5 · answered by covertsx4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi!
The chess will make new Ideas to think and defeat opponet person. It's also improve our thinking power. If u lost ur elephat also know problem. There is another elephant to help u in such cases. U r also having ur horses,camels and soldiers .
U need not worry unless u will have all of these.
The game will be won by having 2 horses, 2 horses, 2soldiers, 1 camel, king.
In Chess game The" minister" is most important one to move from one to another place .
2007-06-07 00:04:48 · answer #6 · answered by srikanth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there,
Queen starts off on her own colour (light queen, light square; dark queen, dark square) and the King beside her on the opposite colour square. Bishops flank the King and Queen followed by the Knights (horses) and lastly the Rooks (Castles). The pawns line up in front.
Cheers.
2007-05-31 06:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the way I used to say it to my students is the queens shoes must match her dress. After the white queen goes on the white square and the black queen goes on the black square they.
It sounds like your mother knows Jungle chess. I could be wrong. The second link is all national variants.
In English it goes King, Queen, Bishop, Knight, Rook.
2007-05-30 05:33:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you set up a chess board, the piece on the far left corner will be the rook (castle), then the knight (horse), bishop (the kind of pointy one), then the king or queen...depending on if you are playing black or white. The queen always goes on her color (black queen on black square, white queen on white or red square) - then back down to the bishop, knight, and rook.
2007-05-30 05:05:17 · answer #9 · answered by AngG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are a couple of sayings to remember here. the first one is "queen to color", meaning that the queen should be on a square of the same color (white queen on white square). the other one is "white on right". This means that when looking at the board from your side, the square in the bottom right corner should be white. if it is black, your king and queen will be inversed from the positions they should be in.
From the outer squares in, it should go Rook, or castle, Knight, Bishop, and then king and queen on their correct squares. hope this helps.
2007-05-30 10:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by DXFlounder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋