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How To Play

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on an 8x8 grid known as a chessboard. The game is played with 16 pieces for each player, each piece having its own unique movement rules. Here are the basic rules and instructions for playing chess:

1. Objective: The objective of chess is to checkmate your opponent's king, meaning the king is in a position to be captured (in check) and there is no way to remove the threat.
2. Setup: Place the pieces on the board as follows: Each player has one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns, arranged on the two rows closest to each player.
3. Movement: Each type of piece has its own unique way of moving across the board. For example, pawns move forward one square, but capture diagonally. Rooks can move horizontally or vertically, bishops diagonally, knights in an L-shape, and queens can move in any direction. The king can move one square in any direction.
4. Check and Checkmate: If a player's king is threatened by capture (in check), they must make a move to remove the threat. If a player's king is in check and there is no legal move to remove the threat, the game is over (checkmate).
5. Special Moves: There are two special moves in chess: castling and en passant. Castling involves moving the king two squares towards a rook on its initial square, and then moving the rook to the square adjacent to the king. En passant is a pawn capture that can only occur immediately after a pawn moves two squares forward from its starting position, and it allows the opposing pawn to capture it as if it had only moved one square forward.
6. End of Game: The game ends when one player achieves checkmate, resigns, or the game is drawn due to a stalemate, insufficient material to checkmate, or the fifty-move rule (if no pawn has been moved and no capture has been made in the last fifty moves).