Chess King
King is the most important chess pieces in a chess board. There are 2 kings in a Chess board & each belongs to each player. A player who plays White will has a white king & player who plays black will has a black King. Although King is the most important piece in a chess board it is
very weak piece. Normally Chess King has a Cross on top of the piece as in the image. Also normally King is the tallest chess piece in a Chess board. Shape is almost closer with Queen other than Cross (+) Sing.
In the game Primary Objective is that to
capture the opponent's King. When even Opponent's King been threaten you have to say "
Check" to inform about that. So opponent will have a change to escape or protect his King. When the opponent's King can;t move to safe place or can't protect Game will be over. That is called "
Check mate". Game objective has achieved.
White King's Start position will be
e1 & Black King's is
e8. King is always
next to Queen at the Start stage of the game. The Chess King can move to a single square distance in any Direction (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) if that square is not checked by opponent. This is described in below image. in the image king is located in e4. Now He can move to any location by 1 Square. That means in all 8 directions since no black pieces around him to make him check.
One of the most important fact about Chess is that we can move our own piece to a square which is already occupied by our own piece.This is true for King piece as well. if we have our own piece on e3. then we can't move King to that position. But if that was a opponent's one Then you can remove him & cap occupy if that is not checked by another piece.
Basic Rule:
If we need to remove any opponent piece from the board we have to capture that piece's square by reaching or moving to that same square. Not like in checker, we are not going to jump over the pieces (Other than Chess Knight).Always a square is belongs to a current occupier. This can be a chain of attacks for a single square.
Next post will be about
King Castling. Important fact in later stage game.
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Chess Queen is the most powerful chess piece in a Chess board. Actually She is a Combination of Rook & Bishop. So She can Travel through rows or Columns and Diagonally as well. Each player will have a Queen in the beginning of a game & She is next to the King. That is just as real World. Not Like King She owns her Color. That means her original or initial square is player's own Color. White Queen is in White Square & black Queen is in a Black Square. Also White Queen start with d1 & Black Queen start with d8 squares.
Normally we say that Queen Greater than Bishop - Castle Combination. Yes That is true. In the End Game Queen become a massive attacker. She can Check King for Continues Steps Until get Finished. So Normally Player are not going to keep opponent's Queen in the Board for Long time. All knows When She get a chance she will go for a KILL. Therefor most player used to exchange Queen in the beginning if they don't have a Great Plan. That is somewhat safer than Keeping Her silent.
This image shows a Chess Queens possible moves. Same as other Chess pieces (other than Knight) Queen also can't jump over any piece. Her travel Ends with any chess piece in her path. As you can see the image Chess Queen has a massive attack range all over the chess board.
Chess Queen is well equipped with Chess fork. (Fork is a double attack. This will be Describe in a separate post.)
Below image is Describing about Bishop's is movements. He always travel in diagonally. Because He has access to travel in only one color.
Black bishop's maximum travel length is comer to corner. That is b1 to h8 as the image. also for White bishops will be h1 to a8. Same as most chess pieces bishop also can't jump over other chess pieces.
