Lesson 1: Introducing the pieces & their ranks

There are 6 different pieces in Chess. The King being the most important! Followed by the Queen (worth less than half of a King), the Rook (worth half the value of a Queen), the Bishop (worth half a Rook), the Knight (worth half a Bishop) and lastly, the Pawn (worth the least and half the Knight).

Lets introduce each character, starting from the bottom and working our way up the ranks - i shall use their nicknames and put their proper names in brackets:

(There are 8 pawns in each army)