How the Chess Knight Moves

The Knight is the piece with the trickiest move in chess. It moves one square horizontally or vertically in any direction, then diagonally one square away from its starting square. This is the same as saying that it moves two squares straight then one square to the side.

A Knight in the center of the chess board has eight possible moves, as shown by the green circles in the diagram. If a target square is occupied by the opponent's piece, the Knight can capture it. If occupied by a piece of the Knight's color, the Knight is blocked and can't move to that square.

Note that the Knight changes the color of its square each time it moves.