Portal:Chess
| File:Darkgreen flag waving.svg | Portal maintenance status: (August 2019)
|
Introduction
Introduction
Template loop detected: Template:Transclude lead excerpt
Selected article -
The king (♔, ♚) is one of the six types of pieces in the game of chess and represents the most important unit on the board. It may move to any adjacent square that is not controlled by an enemy piece; it may also perform, in tandem with the rook, a special move called castling. If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check, and the player must remove or evade the threat of capture immediately, such as by moving it away from the attacked square. If this cannot be done, the king is said to be in checkmate, resulting in a loss for that player. A player cannot make any move that places their own king in check. Despite this, the king can become a strong offensive piece in the endgame or, rarely, the middlegame.
In algebraic notation, the king is abbreviated by the letter K among English speakers. The white king starts the game on e1; the black king starts on e8. Unlike all other pieces, each player can have only one king, and the kings are never removed from the board during the game.
General images
Selected image
FIDE world ranking
Top 10 WikiProject Chess Popular articles of the month
Lua error: No page specified.
Did you know...
Lua error in Module:Selected_recent_additions at line 69: bad argument #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil).
Reviewed articles
_(cropped).jpg){kind=link}
Chess from A to Z
| Index: | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z (0–9) |
| Glossary: | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
Topics
Subcategories
Related portals
Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').
Related WikiProjects
Associated Wikimedia
The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject:
-
Commons
Free media repository -
Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals -
Wikidata
Free knowledge base -
Wikinews
Free-content news -
Wikiquote
Collection of quotations -
Wikisource
Free-content library -
Wikiversity
Free learning tools -
Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus
