9. Capturing and the Value of Chess Pieces

What's in this lesson?

Learns to capture the right piece by counting values.

1. Let's recall the rough values of the pieces: pawn one, knight three, bishop three, rook five, queen nine.
2. Your pawn can capture two pieces. Which one is more profitable? Take the valuable one.
3. Think twice before taking a protected piece. If the queen takes the pawn on d5, the pawn on c6 takes the queen: you lose nine points for one pawn.
4. Now find and capture the unprotected piece. Careful: one of the pieces is protected.
5. In every exchange, look at the total value: the piece you give should not be worth more than the one you take.