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.
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 32 pieces at the start of a chess game - 16 of each colour.
the queen and the bishop
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.
Queen and Bishop
The Queen And A Bishop
Waverly's brother received a chess set for Christmas one year. When some of the chess pieces come up missing, Waverly lets her brothers use some of her candy for chess pieces and they allow her to start playing chess.
there are 32 chess pieces on a board and 16 of them are pawns
The Queen and a Bishop stand adjacent to the King at the start of the game .
16. 8 pawns on the white side and 8 black pawns.
You start off with 8.