Name of piece:- Pawn
Value:- 1
Movement:- Pawn can move only front side ⬆️. It cannot move side ⬅️ ➡️ or back ⬇️. It can move diagonally front ↖️ ↗️ at only one situation. When it reaches enemy Pawn line then it can move diagonally front to reach the end point of the enemy home. It can move two squares at once when it leaves home. Once it have left home it can move only one square at a time.
Promotion:- Pawn is the weakest piece in chess, so we can make it stronger in a way. We need to promote Pawn. Pawn is the only piece in chess which can promote. How to promote? Well, if a Pawn reaches any of the last square at the enemy home, it can promote to a stronger piece. Which piece can it become after promotion? It can promote to become Knight or Bishop or Rook or Queen.Name:- Knight
Value:- 3
Movement:- Knight moves in an L pattern. It must move 3 steps doing it. Is it hard to understand? Okay, I am explaining it with squares:-
⬇️ ⬇️ ➡️⏹ ⏹⬅️
⬇️ or ⬇️ or ⬆️ or ⬆️ or
➡️⏹ ⏹⬅️ ⬆️ ⬆️⬇️⬅️⬅️ ➡️➡️⬇️
⏹ or ⏹ or⏹ ⏹
⬆️⬅️⬅️ or ➡️➡️⬆️Name:- Bishop
Value:- 3
Movement:- Bishop moves in a '×' pattern meaning it can move only diagonally to the maximum numbers of squares at a time. Like this:-
↘️ ↙️ ↖️ ↗️
↘️ or ↙️ or ↖️ or ↗️
↘️ ↙️ ↖️ ↗️Name:- Rook
Value:- 5
Movement:- Rook moves in a '+' pattern meaning it can move only in standing and sleeping position to the maximum numbers of squares at a time.
Note:- Don't mess with these new terms:- standing and sleeping. Standing means Vertically and Sleeping means Horizontally.
Movement:-
⬆️ ⬇️
⬆️ or ⬇️ or ➡️➡️➡️ or ⬅️⬅️⬅️
⬆️ ⬇️Name:- Queen
Value:- 9
Movement:- Queen can move in directions:- Sleeping, Standing and Diagonally to the maximum numbers of squares at a time. In short:-
Queen = Bishop+Rook. It means that Queen can move both in Rook's and Bishop's movement.
Like this:-
⬆️ ⬇️
⬆️ or ⬇️ or ➡️➡️➡️ or ⬅️⬅️⬅️
⬆️ ⬇️↘️ ↙️ ↖️ ↗️
↘️ or ↙️ or ↖️ or ↗️
↘️ ↙️ ↖️ ↗️Name:- King
Value:- Infinity ( Unlimited )
Movement:- King can move in standing, sleeping and diagonally directions only one step at a time.
Note:- King can go two steps while castling.
⬆️ ⏹
⏹ or ⬇️ or ⬅️⏹ or ⏹➡️↖️ ↗️ ⏹ ⏹
⏹ or ⏹ or ↘️ or ↙️
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