Across
- 2. It moves and captures along diagonals without jumping over intervening pieces
- 4. Series of tactical moves designed to improve your overall position, usually involving surprise and maybe even a piece “sacrifice”.
- 7. A board game of strategic skill for two players, played on a checkered board. Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces that are moved and used to capture opposing pieces according to precise rules. The object is to put the opponent's king under a direct attack from which escape is impossible
- 8. The process of going after your opponent’s king or vulnerability to win the game
- 10. To place pieces and pawns so they attack the center
Down
- 1. Consists of moving the king two squares towards a rook on the player’s first rank, then moving the rook to the square that the king crossed. May be done only if the king has never moved, the rook involved has never moved, the squares between the king and the rook involved are unoccupied, the king is not in check, and the king does not cross over or end on a square attacked by an enemy piece.
- 3. Two long range pieces (such as a queen and bishop) lined up and pointed in the same direction along a rank, file, or diagonal
- 5. A really bad move.
- 6. A check from which a king cannot escape
- 9. The freedom of movement, or mobility, that your pieces hopefully have