Hi there in this line, so I just want to tell you what the pieces are called officially and sometimes
unofficially make names.
So basically these guys, which look like castles are not actually called castles, they're called rocks.
So that's a rock.
That's a rock.
That's a that's a rook.
So each player gets two rocks.
So they sit in these corners and start the game.
This guy, which looks like a horse, is actually called officially a knight.
Yes.
And like horses that they can jump over things.
We'll find out that later.
So we get to knights.
The opponent gets to knights.
This guy looks like a bishop and he's actually called bishop on this occasion, so we get two bishops
each.
This guy looks like a king and it's called a king.
We got a king.
And the object of the game is to keep our king safe and to checkmate the opponents.
King and don't worry, I'll be explaining checkmate later.
And we also get this queen, which sits by the king side
on the same color as her own color.
So the white queen of the game sits on the white square.
The black queen sits on a dark square can because remember, lights on the right.
If you're sitting on board, you should set it up like this and we'll revisit reinforce this.
Don't worry, but light on the right and also a one should be your bottom left.
So each one should be your bottom right by the queen sits on our own color and you can say lights on
the right, meaning that the light lights should be on your bottom.
Right.
If plain playing white if we flip the board say we were playing black.
Then our black queen is sitting on a black square, actually on the bottom left becomes eight, on bottom
right becomes eight.
So anyway, the main emphasis, though, of this lecture is just to give you the names of the pieces
officially.
So I hope you're paying attention, Rook, not council knights, not Hosie, Bishop, Queen, King,
Bishop, Knight, Rook.
And these little guys, we've got eight of them.
Last but not least.
These look like foot soldiers, they're actually called pawns, so a single point is a pawn, we can
have pawns and in fact they can make a formation.
Sometimes we call that information or pawn structure.
You might have heard on Queen's Gambit Netflix about pawn structure.
That's like the shape of our pawns.
So we have eight of those little guys they usually let or not on the online here representation here.
But if you got a real chess tournament piece design, I recommend the Poles are usually a little bit
smaller than the other pieces.
So we might refer them, refer to them cheekily as the little guys.
That's not very common.
They're just generally called pawns.
And we get all sorts of funny metaphors in the news about how this person was a political pawn.
So that term pawn.
Yes.
Is used outside of chess as well.
But here on the chess board, yeah, we get eight pawns.
The opponent gets a --'s we got a pair of rocks, pair of nice pair of bishops at Queen in the King,
so I hope that clarifies things a little bit.
But we're going to reinforce these points I've mentioned in other elections.
But have you got aside from this one, for the names of the pieces and so much?