How to Move a Knight in a Chess Game

Video Transcript

"Now I am going to tell you about the knight. The knight is a more complicated piece in its moves. The knight essentially moves two squares in one direction and one square in the other direction so in that sense it is performing the moves which would be like the letter L. Now just to bring that out a bit if you had the knight here the knight could move two squares in this direction and one in this direction and it can also from here move one square to here and then two in this direction or it could move one here and two in this direction or it could move one this way and two in this direction but the theme to note is that it does move essentially on the ranks and the files and that it does go a two and a one move and whether it moves this way first or it moves this way is optional. You do have the option of that. Now the other thing, by the way it only ever makes that one move, there is none of sort of continuing in one go, it just makes that one move that I have shown you and that is the move for the knight. The other thing which is unique about the knight is that it does have the option to jump over other pieces and that can be either its own piece or an opposing piece and it is the only piece on the board that has that potential so in actual fact if you had a situation like this the knight would be able to still move to here because it can jump that piece or it could move to here or it could move to here or it could move to here because it has the ability to jump those pieces. Now the knight cannot finish up on a square occupied by its own piece so it cannot come to here because there is already a white piece on that square but it could move to here and of course it could go to here and remove this piece, that piece would be captured by the knight."