If you get one of your ponds all the way to the other side.
The chess player has direct control of 16 chessmen .
Neither do. Each player in chess has 16 pieces, which is probably what you mean, but that means there are 32 pieces on the board at the start. In checkers, each player has 12 pieces, so there are 24 pieces at the start of a game.
In a game of chess, the player who moves first gets to play with the white pieces.
There are 16 chess pieces on side of a chess board. Each player receives the same number of pieces and must eliminate the other player's king to win.
The "opening moves" begin a chess game. The first opening move goes to the player of the white pieces, followed by a defensive move by the player of the black pieces.
Throw the pieces at their heads.
Chess is a two-player game, so you need another person to play with.
there are 32 chess pieces on a board and 16 of them are pawns
There are 16 chess pieces per player = 32 total .
Eidetic memory .
No, a bishop in chess cannot jump over other pieces. It moves diagonally across the board, but must stop if there is another piece in its path.
In chess, when a player's king is the only piece left on the board and all other pieces have been captured, it is called a "king versus king" situation. This is considered a draw, as neither player has enough pieces to checkmate the other.