KING CHESS PIECE HOW TO

The black dots indicate what spaces the King can move to from the square he’s currently on: To illustrate the his usual movement, here is a picture of a king on the board. There is one exception to this called “castling”, which we’ll get into shortly. He is able to move in any direction he wants, but only one space at a time. As stated, the king is worth infinity points! Pretty cool, huh? To make up for his incredible point value, though, he is the piece with the least amount of movement. Right now, you need to know 2 things about the king: how he moves and how many points he’s worth. Infact, he is SO valuable, that you can actually win the game just by THREATENING to capture the king, but we’ll get to that in the next blog. He is worth an infinite amount of points if you capture him. The King is the most valuable piece on the board. I don’t want you to feel overwhelmed with the first piece, so we’ll save the Pawn for last and start with the piece that has the least moving power…

KING CHESS PIECE HOW TO

However, the Pawn is perhaps the trickiest piece to use for someone just learning how to play. Most chess instructors will begin a lesson on pieces with the Pawn because it’s worth the least amount of points. Part 1 deals with the King, Queen and Rook, while part 2 deals with the minor pieces and Pawns. It’s a lot of information, so to make it more manageable, I’ve split it into 2 parts. Each piece moves in a special way and each is worth a point value (used to figure out if you’re winning or losing at any point in the game, not counting positional advantages). Each player begins the game with 8 Pawns, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights, 2 Bishops, 1 King and 1 Queen. In order to become a good chess player (or even just a chess player who knows what they’re doing), you need to know what the pieces are, how they move, what they can and can’t do, and how many points they’re worthĮach player has the same pieces and the same number of each piece to start with.

King chess piece