Use this unique characteristic to your advantage. Knights are the only pieces that can hop over other ones on the board.
Knights move in an “L” shape: two squares in one direction then another at a 90-degree angle. Try and pair your Bishops with your Queen to make some dangerous offensive attacks. Note: a Bishop will remain on squares of the same color it started on.
Bishopsīishops can also move any amount of squares, but only diagonally. Don't forget to castle in order to get one of your Rooks into a more useful position. Rooks are great defenders and are usually used to protect the King for most of the game. Rooks can move any amount of squares, but only forward, backward, or sideways. Keep on reading the instructions to learn about one of their unique abilities. Pawns become useful in the endgame if you are able to advance them down the board. Instead, they capture by moving forward one tile in a diagonal fashion. However, they cannot move forward into a square that is occupied by another piece. Pawns can only move forward one square at a time, except on their first turn when they can move ahead two. When your piece moves into a square that is currently occupied by an opponent's piece, you will capture that piece. Chess PiecesĮach piece on the board moves differently. Your objective is to capture your opponent's pieces from the board and get a checkmate, where the King can be captured and the opponent is unable to prevent the King from being captured with their next move. Chess is one of the all-time classic games.Tap your Chess pieces to move them. Alongside Checkers, Go, Tic-Tac-Toe, and mah-jongg, chess is one of the cornerstones of the genre, one of the first games we’re introduced to, and one of the formative games upon which we build concepts of strategy, timing, and opportunity. Over the centuries, there have been numerous attempts to reinvent chess or find new ways to play. We’ve talked about puzzly variations on chess in the past, all of which can be played with a standard chess set.
(Except for that guillotine set we featured last year.) But if you’re looking for a truly unique chess experience, the team at Chessplus have a simple, elegant game for you.Ĭhessplus is played under standard chess rules, but with one crucial difference: you can combine your pieces into more powerful ones.ĭo you want a pawn that can make less-expected moves, or a knight that can play conservatively? Combine a knight and pawn into a single piece with the abilities of both. Do you need to keep your queen where it is, but still want a versatile piece that can command the board? Easy. Combine a rook and a bishop, and you’ve got a new piece that works just like a queen.
Merging pieces not only allows you to take advantage of each component’s abilities, but it can also allow you to more swiftly transport pieces across the board. Instead of a pawn crawling across the board one square at a time, combine it with a rook who can send it straight across the board, where it is then promoted to a queen! Or combine two pawns so you only have to escort one piece across the board safely, then split them again and voila! Two pawns promoted into new queens. Oh yes, merging the pieces doesn’t link them forever.
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