How Well Do You Know the Rules of Chess?

What are the only pieces on the board that there are only one of, per color?

• Knight and Queen

• King and Queen

• King and Rook

Knights move 2 in one direction and 1 in another, excluding diagonal. (L shaped) Also 1 in one direction, and 2 in another. (sideways L)

• False

• True

Any piece's move can be imitated by the queen.

• False

• True

Rooks move any number of spaces diagonally.

• False

• True

Bishops can move any number of spaces horizontally/vertically.

• True

• False

If it is your turn and you can't make a legal move, you lose.

• True

• False

Pawns always move two spaces at a time.

• False

• True

If you get a pawn to the other side of the board it automatically becomes a queen.

• True

• False

White always starts at rows 1 and 2 and Black is always rows 7 and 8.

• False

• True

You can Checkmate with a King.

• True

• False

You must start out the game by moving a Pawn out first.

• False

• True

You can have as many Queens on the board as you can get.

• False

• True

There are eight files and eight ranks on a chess board.

• True

• False

You can Checkmate with just a Rook and a King.

• True

• False

A draw can occur when both players move the same piece to the same place three times in a row.

• False

• True