The Liberty Knights Student Name____________________________

LESSON ONE QUIZ- The Board and How the Pieces Move and Capture
(50 questions, 25 is a passing grade)

1. What is your chess teacher’s name?________________________________________________________________

2. Who is the only person that can teach me how to play chess? ___________________________________________

3. How many hours per week should I study or play chess?________________________________________________

4. How do people learn how to play chess?____________________________________________________________

5. What are knights and bishops called?_______________________________________________________________

6. How much is a pawn worth?______________________________________________________________________

7. How much is a king worth?_______________________________________________________________

8. How much is a bishop worth?_____________________________________________________________

9. How does a pawn move?_________________________________________________________________

10. If the first rank is closest to you what is the right side of the board called?__________________________

11. How does a knight move?________________________________________________________________

12. When describing the name of a square, what comes first, a letter or a number?_______________________

13. If you can capture your opponent’s rook while giving up your bishop, did you do well?_______________

14. What color pieces always moves first?______________________________________________________

15. If you are playing the black pieces, what is the right side of the board called?_______________________

16. What is a horizontal row of squares called?__________________________________________________

17. What is a vertical column of squares called?__________________________________________________

18. What piece looks like a horse?_____________________________________________________________

19. What piece is the foot soldier?_____________________________________________________________

20. How does a queen move?________________________________________________________________

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21. What is the only piece that is allowed to move over other pieces?_________________________________
22. What is the only piece that is never allowed to move backwards?_________________________________

23. How does a king move?__________________________________________________________________

24. How does a bishop move?________________________________________________________________

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25. How does a rook move?_________________________________________________________________

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26. What are the rooks and queens called?______________________________________________________

27. How does a pawn capture?_______________________________________________________________

28. When setting up the board, what ranks should the white pieces be set up on?________________________

29. How much is a rook worth?_______________________________________________________________

30. If you gave up a Knight and 3 pawns in order to win your opponent’s Rook, did you do well?__________

31. When setting up the board, what color square should be in the bottom right hand corner?______________

32. What piece always moves to a square that is a different color than the one it started on?_______________

33. What is a slanted line of squares all having the same color called?________________________________

34. How much is a knight worth?_____________________________________________________________

35. How much is a queen worth?_____________________________________________________________

36. Is the king ever allowed to move into a square that is attacked by your opponent?____________________

37. What color square should the black queen be placed on at the beginning of the game?_________________

38. Does the pawn capture the same way it moves?_______________________________________________

39. What piece has a multipointed crown?______________________________________________________

40. What piece has a slant cut into it to remind you how it moves?___________________________________

41. What piece looks like a castle?____________________________________________________________

42. What piece has a cross at the top?_________________________________________________________

43. What are the names of the 4 center squares___________________________________________________

44. What piece is never allowed to leave the chessboard during the game?_____________________________

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