King

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 He is the most important piece. You win the game by putting your opponent in a position where he cannot avoid losing his King.

The King moves in any direction, like the Queen, but only one square at a time. He is slow, so you should generally leave him behind your other pieces.

You are not allowed to put your King on a square that is attacked by your opponent.

If your opponent threatens to capture your King you are "in check". You must stop the threat. If you can't, you lose the game (you are "checkmated").

The king can also capture any piece by moving to its square.

## Notes

* There are two Kings in total.
* There are one King on each side (White and Black).
* King is the most important piece in the chess.
* King also moves like Queen but only takes one step.
* King can only move one step at a time.
* King can move horizontal, vertical, diagonally, and straight.

## Some Quick Chess Tips to Protect you King

* Early in the chess game, build a guard around your King with pawns. Keep the King surrounded by his “bodyguards” for as long as possible – until the end if necessary.
* Develop a chess strategy which will force your opponent to move his King’s guards. This will increase your opportunities to get to his King.
* Create a diversion elsewhere on the chess board when you want to draw your opponent’s attention away from your King or his own for a while.
* Never move your King’s guards unless you’re absolutely forced to do so by your chess opponent.
* Between every chess move and while your opponent moves, think of ways to protect your King further while also advancing towards your opponent’s King.

## Remember..

* Whether or not your chess opponent can move very close to your King.
* Castle of you can. (That means if your King has never moved before or one of your Rook.)

## Trivia

* The king represents the bosses of this world; he represents the leaders in society.

* He holds the most power and can determine the fate of the chess game of life. His position can either make or break the outcome of the battle.

* Yet, he rarely sees any action. The King rarely moves past the first row.

* This is because the leaders in this world are too crucial to success to put out on the battlefield, out where expendable pawns go to die.

* Instead, the bosses and leaders of this world stay back and have their subordinates take charge out on the battlefield; bosses tell their managers to oversee the regular offices.

* The King’s importance is too great for him to do the “dirty work” of life. He instead relies on subordinates to do such jobs that do not directly require his oversight.
* In the opening and middlegame, the king will rarely play an active role in the development of an offensive or defensive position. Instead, a player will normally try to castle and seek safety on the edge of the board behind friendly pawns. In the endgame, however, the king emerges to play an active role as an offensive piece as well as assisting in the promotion of their remaining pawns.

* It is not meaningful to assign a value to the king relative to the other pieces, as it cannot be captured or exchanged. In this sense, its value could be considered infinite. As an assessment of the king's capability as an offensive piece in the endgame, it is often considered to be slightly stronger than a bishop or knight – Emanuel Lasker gave it the value of a knight plus a pawn (i.e. four points on the scale of chess piece relative value) (Lasker 1934:73). It is better at defending nearby pawns than the knight is, and it is better at attacking them than the bishop is (Ward 1996:13).