Talk:Chess piece

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I want to know what is the size of every piece in chess, to be used in tournaments, on chessboards of 5cmx5cm, each square? Thank you

I think the paragraph regarding the recommended size of the squares and pieces is helpful, but it puts too much emphasis on one specific size. From my experience, the game will be comfortable as long as the proportions are ok, regardless of the size (within reasonable limits). I've enjoyed using many games with 3.5 cm² squares and a 7 cm king, and this paragraph seems to suggest that this is too small.

--Max.

That is certainly too small. Those recomendations about the range of the size come from the USCF and FIDE and are in fact rules. One one occaision I even enforced the rule in a tournament. I don't play with kings less than 3.75 inches (9.5 cm) and squares less than 5.4 cm. Bubba73 16:28, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the info, I didn't know that :) But not all readers of this page are tournament players, and a somewhat smaller or larger size is just fine to play at home, providing that the proportions are good. The information about the recommended size is useful, and I'm not saying it should be removed, but that more emphasis should be put on the importance of proportions. Maybe it could just be rephrased, or a sidenote might be added. Anyway, size doesn't matter ;) --Max.
You're right, proportions are important. I put the stuff about the size in there because at the top of this page someone asked about sizes for tournament play. That should be mentioned in the article. Bubba73 20:19, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Should it be mentioned under rook, bishop, queen, and pawn that they can't jump over pieces, except for castling? It seems to me that it would be good to mention it there, instead of just under "knight". --Bubba73 05:23, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] what is this?

The article says "Chess set colors are usually black & white, brown & cream, black & red, or green & white." Is this talking about the board? I've never seen black & red pieces. There are white & red pieces, and cheap black and red cardboard boards. I've never seen green & white pieces either, but there are plenty of greeen and white boards. Bubba73 (talk), 06:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of term 'piece'

In standard chess parlance, the pawns are not refered to as pieces. Thus each player has 8 pieces and 8 pawns, not 16 pieces.

It depends on the context. Sometimes a piece means any of the pieces, sometimes it means a non-pawn. Sometimes it means a minor piece, etc.
For instance, the FIDE rulebook, section 2.2 includes the pawns as pieces. Bubba73 (talk), 02:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
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