Run, Protect or Capture Worksheet
When your children are playing chess, they're playing to win! You don't mind, though, because they're also strengthening their critical thinking and reasoning skills, as well as their problem-solving and logical thinking. Winning means you protect your king from check, so this free PDF worksheet will show them the strategies of running away, protecting the king or capturing the checking piece, and they'll have the opportunity to practice each with the sample boards.
Required skills:
In order to resolve this worksheet, students should know the different strategies in chess to run, protect, or capture pieces while protecting their king from being in check. They should also be able to visualize and analyze sample boards to understand the application of each strategy.
