Board and rules
Специални ходове
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Castling
Level: BeginnerA special move in which the king moves two squares toward a rook and that rook crosses to the king's other side.
Kingside castling
Level: BeginnerCastling toward the kingside rook, leaving the king on g1 or g8 and the rook on f1 or f8.
Queenside castling
Level: BeginnerCastling toward the queenside rook, leaving the king on c1 or c8 and the rook on d1 or d8.
Castling rights
Level: IntermediateA position state showing whether a player still retains the legal right to castle with each rook.
Double pawn push
Level: BeginnerA pawn’s optional first move of two squares, legal only when both squares ahead are empty.
en passant
Level: BeginnerA special pawn capture that immediately takes a pawn just advanced two squares as though it had advanced one.
En passant right
Level: IntermediateA temporary chance to capture an enemy pawn immediately after its initial two-square advance.
Promotion
Level: BeginnerPromotion replaces a pawn that reaches the last row with a queen, rook, bishop, or knight of the same color.
Promotion rank
Level: BeginnerThe rank farthest from a pawn's starting side, where that pawn must become another piece.
Promotion square
Level: BeginnerA square on the farthest rank that a pawn reaches and must use to become another piece.
Promoted piece
Level: BasicA queen, rook, bishop, or knight that replaces a pawn when it reaches the last rank.
Queening
Level: BasicPromotion in which a pawn reaching the farthest row is replaced by a new queen of the same color.
Underpromotion
Level: BeginnerUnderpromotion means promoting a pawn to a rook, bishop, or knight instead of choosing a queen.
