WEBVTT 00:01.400 --> 00:07.820 Hi there in this line, so I just want to tell you what the pieces are called officially and sometimes 00:07.820 --> 00:09.780 unofficially make names. 00:10.400 --> 00:16.730 So basically these guys, which look like castles are not actually called castles, they're called rocks. 00:17.150 --> 00:18.050 So that's a rock. 00:18.320 --> 00:19.190 That's a rock. 00:19.370 --> 00:20.900 That's a that's a rook. 00:21.380 --> 00:23.000 So each player gets two rocks. 00:23.690 --> 00:27.120 So they sit in these corners and start the game. 00:29.090 --> 00:32.890 This guy, which looks like a horse, is actually called officially a knight. 00:34.340 --> 00:34.850 Yes. 00:35.810 --> 00:37.870 And like horses that they can jump over things. 00:37.880 --> 00:39.070 We'll find out that later. 00:39.410 --> 00:41.320 So we get to knights. 00:41.350 --> 00:42.830 The opponent gets to knights. 00:45.520 --> 00:51.340 This guy looks like a bishop and he's actually called bishop on this occasion, so we get two bishops 00:51.340 --> 00:51.790 each. 00:55.000 --> 00:56.900 This guy looks like a king and it's called a king. 00:57.520 --> 00:58.390 We got a king. 00:58.780 --> 01:03.150 And the object of the game is to keep our king safe and to checkmate the opponents. 01:03.160 --> 01:05.760 King and don't worry, I'll be explaining checkmate later. 01:06.610 --> 01:11.650 And we also get this queen, which sits by the king side 01:14.320 --> 01:17.510 on the same color as her own color. 01:17.710 --> 01:21.310 So the white queen of the game sits on the white square. 01:23.260 --> 01:27.810 The black queen sits on a dark square can because remember, lights on the right. 01:28.270 --> 01:33.610 If you're sitting on board, you should set it up like this and we'll revisit reinforce this. 01:33.610 --> 01:38.230 Don't worry, but light on the right and also a one should be your bottom left. 01:39.830 --> 01:47.650 So each one should be your bottom right by the queen sits on our own color and you can say lights on 01:47.650 --> 01:49.870 the right, meaning that the light lights should be on your bottom. 01:49.870 --> 01:50.090 Right. 01:50.090 --> 01:56.740 If plain playing white if we flip the board say we were playing black. 01:58.360 --> 02:07.000 Then our black queen is sitting on a black square, actually on the bottom left becomes eight, on bottom 02:07.000 --> 02:08.160 right becomes eight. 02:08.710 --> 02:15.250 So anyway, the main emphasis, though, of this lecture is just to give you the names of the pieces 02:15.250 --> 02:15.810 officially. 02:16.510 --> 02:25.030 So I hope you're paying attention, Rook, not council knights, not Hosie, Bishop, Queen, King, 02:26.510 --> 02:27.940 Bishop, Knight, Rook. 02:29.920 --> 02:31.690 And these little guys, we've got eight of them. 02:32.260 --> 02:33.880 Last but not least. 02:36.780 --> 02:46.500 These look like foot soldiers, they're actually called pawns, so a single point is a pawn, we can 02:46.500 --> 02:50.790 have pawns and in fact they can make a formation. 02:50.790 --> 02:54.120 Sometimes we call that information or pawn structure. 02:54.450 --> 02:57.950 You might have heard on Queen's Gambit Netflix about pawn structure. 02:58.380 --> 02:59.940 That's like the shape of our pawns. 03:00.960 --> 03:06.870 So we have eight of those little guys they usually let or not on the online here representation here. 03:06.870 --> 03:12.360 But if you got a real chess tournament piece design, I recommend the Poles are usually a little bit 03:12.360 --> 03:14.490 smaller than the other pieces. 03:15.300 --> 03:19.620 So we might refer them, refer to them cheekily as the little guys. 03:20.010 --> 03:20.820 That's not very common. 03:20.830 --> 03:22.800 They're just generally called pawns. 03:23.790 --> 03:30.710 And we get all sorts of funny metaphors in the news about how this person was a political pawn. 03:31.200 --> 03:32.520 So that term pawn. 03:32.520 --> 03:32.910 Yes. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.700 Is used outside of chess as well. 03:36.690 --> 03:38.940 But here on the chess board, yeah, we get eight pawns. 03:40.520 --> 03:45.910 The opponent gets a --'s we got a pair of rocks, pair of nice pair of bishops at Queen in the King, 03:46.400 --> 03:48.290 so I hope that clarifies things a little bit. 03:48.290 --> 03:53.630 But we're going to reinforce these points I've mentioned in other elections. 03:54.980 --> 04:01.070 But have you got aside from this one, for the names of the pieces and so much?