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Question 1

What is the value of the Pawn?

Answer 1

1 point

Question 2

What is the value of the Knight?

Answer 2

3 points

Question 3

What is the value of the Bishop?

Answer 3

3 points

Question 4

What is the value of the Rook?

Answer 4

5 points

Question 5

What is the value of the Queen?

Answer 5

9 points

Question 6

What is the value of the King?

Answer 6

Game

Question 7

What is the goal of your opening moves?

Answer 7

To control the center better than your opponent if possible

Question 8

How many times should you move a piece in the opening?

Answer 8

Once unless you have a good reason.

Question 9

When should you check the king?

Answer 9

When it improves your position more than improves your opponent’s position

Question 10

What are three things you should accomplish in the opening?

Answer 10

• Control the center • develop your pieces • protects your king (castle)

Question 11

What is the difference between a rank and a file?

Answer 11

The rank is the letter column while the file is the number row.

Question 12

What is piece strength dependent upon?

Answer 12

Mobility and piece placement.

Question 13

Where should your king go in the endgame?

Answer 13

Move him more towards the center.

Question 14

What are the worst squares for the knight?

Answer 14

Corners followed by edges

Question 15

If you have a bishop, what color square should you put your pawns on: same or opposite?

Answer 15

Opposite to avoid having a bad bishop

Question 16

When are pawns strongest?

Answer 16

When they are connected on adjoining files. Pawns also get stronger as they approach the back rank

Question 17

When are knights strongest?

Answer 17

When they are close to enemy pieces for forks or when the position is closed and they can hop over other pieces

Question 18

When is the bishop strongest?

Answer 18

On open lines and working together with other pieces

Question 19

When are rooks strongest?

Answer 19

On open files and when they invade the enemy position

Question 20

What is a fork?

Answer 20

One piece attacking two or more pieces

Question 21

What is a pin?

Answer 21

When one piece cannot or should not move because a piece behind it will be captured or killed

Question 22

What is a skewer?

Answer 22

When two pieces are lined up under attack and the first moves resulting, in the other one being captured or killed.

Question 23

When one king is chasing the other in a king-rook endgame, what king to king position tells you to lose a move with the rook?

Answer 23

You should lose a move with the rook ( go backward or move one square but stay on the same rank/file) when the Kings are a knight’s move from each other.

Question 24

What is important to remember about relative king placement in endgames?

Answer 24

Your kings cannot be next to each other!

Question 25

In endgames, where do you want the opposing king to end up?

Answer 25

Against an edge (likely one that you weren’t already controlling).

Question 26

When given the choice on an open board, is it better to move a rook far from or close to an opposing piece?

Answer 26

Far from! The rook is a long range piece that is most effective on a long, open file/rank.