Chess started as a much simpler game, which was played around the 12th century.
This simpler game involved an 8x8 board (iirc) in which opponents would have 2 rows of pieces. These pieces moved in simple ways and interacted in simple ways.
Chess was developed a couple hundred years later, and we've been playing that version ever since, though some spin off versions have been created, like Wizard's chess (played drunk), Grand Wizard's Chess (played drunk and under the influence of a hallucinogen) and Champion's Chess (with 2 new pieces, and a larger 10x10 board.
Take the chess board and start beating them with it.
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There are a total of 32 pieces at the start of a chess game - 16 of each colour.
At the start of a game, exactly half (50%) of the chess board squares are occupied by pieces and pawns.
There are a total of four Rooks at the start of the game .
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There are 4 rooks on the board at the start of a game of normal chess.
The best selling books about chess are definitely books that are designed to give the basics of chess. The book to start with might be; Chess for Dummies. I'm not calling you a chess dummy but it will give you the answers to the game you need.
When promoting a pawn in chess, it stays the same color it was to start with.
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It probably started by someone who watched/played chess somewhere else and brought it back to the Philippines
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