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Chess is a game, played by two players.
One player plays with the white pieces, and the other player plays with the black pieces. The board must be laid down such that there is a black square in the lower-left corner. To facilitate notation of moves, all squares are given a name. A move consists of moving one of the pieces of the player to a different square, following the rules of movement for that piece - there is one special exception, named castling , where players move two pieces simultaneously. A player can take a piece of the opponent by moving one of his own pieces to the square that contains a piece of the opponent.