www.Chess-Game-Strategies.com Chess Moves - Beginners Cheat Sheet Pawns Knights Bishops • Very first move, can choose • Can be your Opening move • Moves diagonally, on a single to advance 1 or 2 squares. (1. Nc3, or 1. Nf3). color square. • Thereafter, can only advance • Moves in an L-shaped pattern: • Can move to any square, in a 1 square per turn. 2 left/right, 1 forwards ... in single direction, per turn, ANY direction. providing its path is clear. • Pawns can only Capture • diagonally, 1 square forward, • Knights can jump over stuff. Can only capture diagonally. to the left or right. Rooks Queens Kings • Rooks can only work along the • Queens can move to any • Kings can only move or straights, but can get from square, in any direction, capture ONE square, in ANY one side to another, in a providing its path is clear. direction, per turn. single turn, if the path is clear. • Your Queen should be one of • The exception is in Castling, the LAST Pieces into battle where a King and Rook can • Needs Open Files, or clear (definitely after Pawns, switch places (see our 'Basic Ranks, to be effective. Knights, Bishops.) Chess Moves' webpage, in our Beginners Chess Guide, for • Aim to get at least one Rook • Use Queens in Battery Attacks more on Castling). onto the 7th Rank (where with either Rooks or Bishops. your enemy's Pawns start • Castle your King as quickly as each game). possible, in the Opening. See our Beginners Chess Guide: http://www.Chess-Game-Strategies.com/beginners-chess.html.