Check or Checkmate: Part 2 Worksheet

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Chess is one of the best ways for your child to practice strategic thinking, problem-solving and critical reasoning in a fun and competitive way. This free PDF will allow your child to have practice analyzing boards where the king is either in check and can escape or checkmate and can't. They'll look at each board and all the pieces' placements, and then mark the boards where the king can escape from check. A great practice for saving their king when they play on real boards as well.

Required skills:
To resolve this worksheet, students should know how to analyze different chess board setups, identify when the king is in check or checkmate, and determine whether the king can escape from checkmate or not. They should also be able to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to come up with solutions to save the king.