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Chess is a game for two people, played on a chess-board marked with sixty-four black and white squares. The thirty-two chess pieces – also called chessmen – are black (or red) and white, and are called kings, queens, bishops, knights, castles (or rooks), and pawns. The pawn is the smallest and least important piece.

If a pawn reaches the eighth square on the opposite side of the board, it can be exchanged for a queen. This is what happens to Alice in the story.

CHARACTERS IN THE STORY

CHESSMEN

The White Queen

The Red Queen

The White King

The Red King

The White Knight

The Red Knight

OTHER CHARACTERS

Talking flowers, Tiger-lily, Rose, Daisy

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Humpty Dumpty

The Lion and the Unicorn

Haigha and Hatta, the White King’s messengers