Today we learned a little about how knights move. If you start a knight on the a1 square and move it 149 times, what color square will it be on? (They all got it right!)
We learned a little poetry:
A knight on the side
Gets fried!
We learned that the pattern of squares a knight can move to can look like a circle, a diamond, or a
square depending on your imagination. We learned how a bishop or a rook can trap a knight - even how a king or pawns can.
We learned why a rook is happy in the back row. It has to do with the number 14.
We learned the three objectives at the start of the game:
1. Control the center by occupying or attacking it.
2. Develop your knights and bishops - get them out of the back row and into the game.
3. Make sure your king is safe, which usually means castling.
We learned all the rules of castling - including a new one they had to add to the rulebook.
... and we played some chess.
| Name | 23-Oct |
| Isaac | 261 |
| Tapio | 247 |
| Kartik | 223 |
| Gage | 218 |
| Theo | 169 |
| Abe | 159 |
| Hale | 156 |
| Luc | 135 |
| Bharath | 134 |
| Thomas | 125 |
| Alex | 115 |
| Preston | 105 |
| Eli | 105 |
| Jagger | 105 |
| Ethan | 105 |
| Stella | 100 |
| Kiran | 100 |
| Michael | 100 |
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