King

While the king is not the most powerful piece on the board, it is the most important. You can't capture a king, it can only be attacked. If your king is being attacked it is in "check". A king can't move into check (it is an illegal move) and if a king is put into check it must get out of check. If the king can not get out of check, it's checkmate!

A king can get out of checkmate if:

1. You move the king out of check
2. block the check with another piece
3. capture the piece putting the king in check

To learn more about the king piece, click this link: King page at chess.com

The spaces the king can move — *The spaces a King can move*

Queen

The queen is the most powerful of all the chess pieces because it can attack and defend more squares than the other pieces. They can move in any direction like a king, can move up, down, left, right like a rook, and they can move diagonal like the bishop.

To learn more about the Queen, piece click this link: Queen page at chess.com

The spaces the queen can move — *The spaces a Queen can move*

Bishop

The bishop can move as far as it wants to but only on diagonals. It is a long ranged piece and is restrained to half of the board and can only move on it's respective light or dark squares. A light squared-bishop can only move on light squares and a dark-squared bishop can move only on dark sqaures. A light-sqaured bisop can not change to a dark-sqaured bishop or vise-versa.

To learn more about the Bishop, piece click this link: Bishop page at chess.com

The spaces the bishop can move — *The spaces a Bishop can move*

Knight

This piece moves diffrently than other pieces, it moves multiple squares each move. They can either move vertically up or down one square and horizontally over two squares, or up or virtically up or down two squares and over one squre horizontally. Their movement can be represented as an "L" shape. They can also jump over pieces and can change between the colored squares.

To learn more about the Knight, piece click this link: Knight page at chess.com

The spaces the Knight can move — *The spaces a Knight can move*

Rook

The rook is the second most powerful piece in chess. The rook can move foward, backward, or sideways but it can't move diagonally. The rook can move up or down vertically and left or right horizontally on a square.

To learn more about the Rook piece, click this link: Rook page at chess.com

The spaces the Rook can move — *The spaces a Rook can move*

Pawn

The pawn is the least powerful chess piece but can be promoted into any other chess piece. They can move foward one sqaure unless it's their first move. If it is their first move they can move one or two squares.

To learn more about the Pawn piece, click this link: Pawn page at chess.com