How to Play Chess: Moving The King
Speaker: The King, the King moves one square in any direction - horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. There is one special type of move made by King and Rook simultaneously, which we mentioned earlier, called Castling, which we will explain now.
Castling, under certain special rules, a King and a Rook can move simultaneously in a castling move, when the following conditions must be met:
The King that makes the castling move has not yet moved in the game.
The King is not in check.
The King does not move over a square that is attacked by an enemy piece during the castling move, i.e. when castling, there may not be an enemy piece that can move, in case of pawns, by diagonal movement, to a square that is moved over by the King.
The King does not move to a square that is attacked by an enemy piece during the castling move, for example, you may not castle and end the move with the King in check.
All squares between the Rook and the King before the castling move are empty.
The King and the Rook must occupy the same rank or row.
When castling, the King moves two squares towards the Rook and the Rook moves over the King to the next square.
In the example, Black's King on e8 and Rook on a8 move to King, c8 and Rook, d8.
