Four. Two for each player
Seeing as to how each side starts with two knights (horses) there are four knights at the start of the game. If a pawn is promoted to a knight there can be more than four knights on the board, but this doesn't usually happen.
There are a total of 32 pieces at the start of a chess game - 16 of each colour.
There are 4 rooks on the board at the start of a game of normal chess.
The only pieces that can make the first move in a chess game are the pawns and knights. Therefore, each side has 12 moves available. These are one possible for each of the eight pawns, and two each for both knights.
There are a total of four Rooks at the start of the game .
At the start of a game there are 32 chessmen with 16 pieces for each side : 1 King , 1 Queen , 2 Bishops , 2 Knights , 2 Rooks and 8 Pawns .
At the start of a game of chess only one move is allowed - White always makes the first move .
32 squares are covered at the beginning of a chess game, because there are 32 pieces and pawns on the board to start the game.
Chess is the best-known game with knights and bishops. These titles may be used in other games, also, especially many of the fantasy and swords & sorcery role playing games created in the last 30 years.
32. (Eight pawns, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, a queen and a king on both sides.)
32 - each side fields 16 chessmen .
there are 32 chess pieces on a board and 16 of them are pawns