For thousands years of chess have undergone their own changes and chess rules. Game Shatranzh – the predecessor of chess. A distinctive feature was its extreme slowness, so from the initial position only to mobilize the forces took about 30-40 moves, then just beginning the battle. So the game did not start with the initial position, but with specially designed products, which have already been mobilizing their forces. This situation does not meet the conditions of time, and about the Middle Ages, the rules of chess have undergone significant changes. In modern chess, the struggle begins with the first stroke!
Thus, the rules of chess: the only goal in chess – it is checkmate the enemy king (that is, a threat to the enemy king, from which the opponent can not defend themselves).
Check – a threat to the king. From the check necessarily protected.
Draw awarded if neither side can checkmate. There are many possibilities to make a draw,the particular type of draw is a stalemate – a situation in which one of the parties there is not a single possible according to the rules of chess moves. Another particular type of draw is repetition position – when the position repeats 3 times. It means, that noone of the opponents can accelerate his position.
In addition, you need to know how each piece makes move and initial position. Every piece can strike any other piece how it makes moves. The only exception is the pawn – “soul of chess”. It can’t strike the pieces on its way, but can bias. By the first move pawn can overcome two cells, but then only one. Interesting possibility of pawn to tranform into any other piece when it reaches the last rank. One more exception is castling of the king – possibility to change places with the rook piece if they didn’t any moves before.
Official rules of chess chess governed by the Code, it can be downloaded at the official website of FIDE.