#ORIGINAL CHESS PIECE NAMES HOW TO#

#ORIGINAL CHESS PIECE NAMES HOW TO#

The moving pieces seemed to be reasonably sentient, as seen when Harry Potter began learning how to play the game, he used Seamus Finnigan's pieces, which offered him conflicting advice because they knew that he was not a good or experienced player. Aside from the self-moving pieces, the rules of Wizard's Chess were exactly the same as Muggle chess. Players moved their pieces by speaking the name of the piece and the square it was to move to by algebraic notation.

Bringing one's own army or borrowing someone else's was sometime a requirement of chess tournaments, such as the Walter Aragon Wizard Chess Competition. Armies Īlthough many wizard's chess sets came with two armies, when facing another witch or wizard with their own army a player would typically take one of their own armies to play against their opponent's army. If a chess set got badly damaged, they had to be sent to a special place for repairs. The chessboard and chessmen were exactly like Muggle chess pieces, except they were magically animated, likely using Piertotum Locomotor. The Chess pieces, or chessmen, consisted of one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.

The colours were called 'black' and 'white' (or 'light' and 'dark'). The chessboard was a type of checkerboard that consisted of 64 squares (eight rows and eight columns) arranged in two alternating colours (light and dark). ' Exactly the same as Muggle chess except the figures are animated and can be directed like troops.' - Description

Original chess piece names