What can each chess piece do?

What can each chess piece do?

Bishops: Bishops can move any number of squares diagonally. Knights: Knights can move only in an L-shape, one square up and two over, or two squares over and one down, or any such combination of one-two or two-one movements in any direction. Rooks: Rooks can move any number of squares, up and down and side to side.

How do chess pieces move on the board?

How Chess Pieces MoveKings move one square in any direction, so long as that square is not attacked by an enemy piece. Queens move diagonally, horizontally, or vertically any number of squares. Rooks move horizontally or vertically any number of squares. Bishops move diagonally any number of squares.

Is it better to castle kingside or queenside?

It is almost always faster to castle kingside because only two pieces need to be moved out of the way, and those two pieces have very natural squares ( Nf3 , Bb5/c4/e2 ). The kingside pawns are usually left on their starting squares so the king is usually safer on the kingside than it would be on the queenside.