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How Can You Capture Your Opponent's Piece When Playing Chess?

To play chess properly, you must learn the basic moves that pieces may make and the way each one can make a capture. It's a very straightforward process for the rook, the queen, and bishop, but other pieces such as the knights and pawns capture in an odd manner that does not apply to conventional movement across the board. Captured pieces are removed from the board and can't return.

Instructions

- 1
  Move your bishop diagonally at all times. It may capture any piece in its path except the king. No piece captures a king; any piece that has an unblocked path to the king would already have it in check.
- 2
  Move your rook vertically and horizontally to capture any pieces that might be in its path. Move your queen vertically, horizontally or diagonally to do the same.
- 3
  Move pawns one square diagonally to capture. Otherwise, pawns can only move forward. Kings rarely capture other pieces, but it can if that piece is one square away in any direction.
- 4
  Move knights in one of two ways: one square in any vertical or horizontal direction followed by two squares in a perpendicular direction or vice versa. Any opponent piece that sits in the final square your knight lands on gets captured.

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