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What Are The Chess Pieces?
The chess pieces are what you move on a chessboard when playing a game of chess. There are six different types of chess pieces. Each side starts with 16 pieces:

. eight pawns
. two bishops
. two knights
. two rooks

one queen

. one king

Let’s meet them!

How The Chess Pieces Move
King – Moves one square in any direction.
Queen – Moves any number of squares diagonally, horizontally, or vertically.
Rook – Moves any number of squares horizontally or vertically.
Bishop – Moves any number of squares diagonally.
Knight – Moves in an ‘L-shape,’ two squares in a straight direction, and then one square perpendicular to that.
Pawn – Moves one square forward, but on its first move, it can move two squares forward. It captures diagonally one square forward.