UIL Chess Puzzles
What term best describes this situation?
Black is in checkmate
What term best describes this situation?
Black is in stalemate
Black just played c7 to c5. Which pawn can be captured?
Black's C-Pawn
Rook
Can move horizontally and vertically as many pieces as it wants. Can capture the same way it moves.
Knight
Moves two squares one way, and then one square the other, in the shape of an L. The knight captures in the same way as it moves.
What piece should White promote to?
Queen
Material Value
Queen= 9 Rook = 5 Bishop = 3 Knight = 3 Pawn = 1 King (Infinitely valuble)
What piece should White capture?
Rook
Queen
The most valuable piece on the board. Can move in any direction on the board as many squares as it wants.
Pawn
The weakest piece on a chessboard. The only piece on the board that does not move backward. On it's first move, this piece can move either one or two spaces up, after that it can only move forward one space. In order to capture an opponents piece, it can move one space diagonal.
Which move is possible for White?
To capture the Queen
Checkmate
When a king has no way to escape from a check. (There are no squares to flee to, no way to block or capture the checking piece.) This is the goal of chess and ends the game.
Promotion
When a pawn has successfully made it to the opposite side of the board. The pawn can then become any piece except for the king.
Stalemate
When an opponent cannot move any of their pieces, the game can end in a draw.
Which side has a material advantage?
White
King
has little freedom when it comes to moving. It moves one square in any direction.
Castling
move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king. You can only do this if all of the following are true #1- Your king has not moved yet #2- The rook you want to castle with has not moved yet #3- There are no pieces between the rook and the king #4- You are not being checked. (You can't castle out of check!) #5- The process of castling will not put or land the king in check.
Bishop
moves diagonally as many squares as it wants. Must remain on the same color square the entire game.
Check
this term is used when the king is about to get captured. The king can usually escape from this move.
