What are the Chess pieces and what do they mean?

Question

What are the Chess pieces and what do they mean? One piece holds some significance to Breaking Dawn. I'm not sure how because I do not in the least understand Chess but i might have a theory about Breaking Dawn if I did know.

Answer 1

A king=you win the game

A queen=9 points

Arook=5 points

aKNIGht=3 points

bishop=3 points

pawn=1 point

Answer 2

King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Pawn

in that relative order of importance.

Although it varies K= infinity, Q= 9, R=5, B=3.3, N=3, P=1.  (King's fighting power is about 2, but if you lose it, you lose the game.)

A Rook can not move diagonally, only horizontally an vertically.

A Bishop is the opposite.  It can't move horizontally or vertically, just diagonally.

A Bishop in front of a Rook blocks the Rook, but the same can be true if the rook is diagonally in front of the Bishop. Pick your poison.:)

Although A Queen is sort of a Rook/Bishop combination, note she is more valuable than a Rook and Bishop.

Now do need to be told of the short range, but unblockable knight?:)

Answer 3

King - the ruler of the kingdom.  Lose him, lose the game.  Can move 1 square in any direction, PROVIDED the ending square does not put him in danger of capture.  If the king and one of the two rooks has not moved previously, AND the king is not in danger of capture, AND will not cross a possible line of capture, AND all squares between the king and rook are vacant, THEN the king can move 2 squares towards the rook, and the rook is moved to flank the king.  This counts as one move and is called CASTLING.

Queen - worth 9 points, and can move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally as many spaces as are allowed on the board.

Rook - also known as the CASTLE - can move horizontally or vertically as many spaces as are available.  Worth 5 points.

Bishop - the 'priest' of the kingdom - can move diagonally as many spaces as are available.  Will always stay on the same color square as he began. Worth 3.5 points traditionally, 3 points in wcf.

Knight - also called CAVALIER - Moves in an L-shaped pattern, over 2, up 1 or over 1 up 2.  Wil ALWAYS end up on a square OPPOSITE in color from where it began.  THE ONLY PIECE that can jump over other pieces.  Worth 3.25 points, or 3 in wcf play.

Pawn - the 'servant' -  can move forward 1 space (2 if it it the very first move that pawn is making).  Only captures diagonally.  Can be promoted to any other piece (other than a king) if it reaches the 8th rank.  Worth 1 point.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

the rook can back and forth, the bishop can move diagonally, it doesn't matter which one is in front or behind, i personally like the bishop in the back, only the queen and king can move in all directions, but the king can only move one space at a time.

Answer 5

the Pieces are the Pawn, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Queen, King

I hope this site answers your questions.

http://www.thechessstore.com/category/ru...

The significance depends on your strategy.  I think the most crucial pieces to me is the Queen then the rooks, then the pawns, knights, bishops.