Basic Piece Movement




Each piece has its own style of moving. Moves are made to vacant squares except when cpaturing an opponent's piece. With the exception of the knight, pieces cannot jump over another piece. When a piece is captured, the attacking piece replaces the enemy piece on its square. The capture piece is thus removed from the game and cannot be returned. The King can be put in check but cannot be captured, because once a King is unable to move out of position to be captured, the game is over.

The specific movements of each individual piece are as follows: