Does the king or queen start on its own color in chess?

When you set up your chess board you only need to remember two things.

1. no matter if you are white or black there should be a white square in the bottom right corner.

2. Then working from both sides towards the middle you would place your rooks, knights, and bishops leaving two squares vacant . The Queen will go on the square of her color just to the left of the King.. The pawns of course go in front of the pieces and you have your army assembled.

Queen Chess Piece

Depite what some people might tell you, according to International AND Us chess rules, The queen goes in it's OWN color, that means tthat the queen is opposite of the queen, not the king!

Queen

To prevent confusion.

Many analyzers refer to "weak/strong light/dark squares", or a "phalanx of dark pawns", etc. If the board is flipped 90 degrees, the dark squares become light, and the light become dark, and the message can get confused.

Another problem with setting up your chessboards with the dark square on the bottom left stems from the queens on colour maxim. If somebody is relying on the maxim, and has the dark square in the left, the king would end up on d1 and the queen on e1. Then imagine somebody else tries to play this game again but with the light square on the right. They will play some moves just fine, but the game will stop making sense halfway through, and they will probably figure out the notation is screwed up after 5-10 moves.

It's just a convention to prevent confusion.

Chess Board Set Up

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The way I explain the starting line-up to children to whom I have taught chess is that it is like a panoramic school photograph: the members of staff in the middle, the tallest pupils in the senior school next to them and then outwards in descending order of height ... with the junior school pupils sitting cross-legged on the ground in a second row in front of them. It is simplest to read the FIDE Laws of Chess, as it is all explained clearly, with diagrams, eg of the starting position. FIDE is the international chess body known by the acronym of its name in French (Federation Internationale des Echecs) See link below You need to connect the "Queen on her own colour" rule to the "White square at the right" rule. They are intimately connected. If you get the board the wrong way round, then you are likely to get the queens on the wrong colour, so as to get them "looking right" (on the left of the King for White, and on the right of the King for Black) or if you blindly follow the "queen on her own colour" rule you find that your openings don't look right when you try to play them. So check the board is the right way round and that the White pieces are at the a1-h1 end of the board, before you start the game!

Queen goes on her own color at the start!

The King starts in its opposite color.

The Queen, is of course, on the kings leftside, which is her same color.

Queen on her own color. Also, make sure that the board is situated so that there is a white square in your bottom right hand corner. (official FICA rules)