Setting Up Pieces on ChessUp

Setting Up the Pieces

A chess board has 64 squares. Each square has a name consisting of a letter and a number. Use the letters and numbers on your ChessUp to discover the name for each square.

When initially switched on, ChessUp pulses 32 squares on the chessboard (16 blue and 16 green). This is called the “startup sequence.” If there are no chess pieces on those squares, the 32 squares will reappear. This indicates the starting position on each side. The blue squares indicate the starting position for the white pieces and the green squares indicate the starting position for the black pieces.

Each chess piece type has a specific starting position. These are the names and starting positions for each piece type and color:

Pawns

Rooks

Knights

Bishops

Queens (always on her own color)

Kings

The light on each square will turn off once a piece is placed on it. If a piece is placed on a square that is not part of the starting position, that square will light up purple indicating a piece should not be on that square.

Once all 32 pieces are in the starting position, the 32 squares will blink 2 times which indicates the game is ready to begin.

White always goes first in chess. Touch any white piece to see all available legal moves. The square of the selected piece will light up purple and the moves will light up blue (when no assistance is selected). Note: only pawns and knights have legal moves available on the first move.

Once a game is finished or if you would like to start a new game, return all the pieces to the starting position. Once the pieces are in the starting position, ChessUp will blink the starting squares to confirm a new game is ready to begin.