Chess is similar to war because you need strategy to win chess and you need strategy to win a war. Pawns are the foot soldiers because they are pretty slow and can’t move very far. They’re also the front lines, so many of them die. The king is similar because he does not move, he just gives commands, which is the same in chess. The knights can jump over people and get to a place faster, so they are the cavalry. The rook was like the person who stood above everybody on the castle, and they could see if there was any trouble. The bishop is the head of some churches, and in medieval times, the church and war are the two most powerful things. The queen can move anywhere and is always moving around; this connects to the Middle Ages because queens would often move around traveling to other castles.

Something that I learned is that medieval wars were very slow. There were a lot of waiting around for someone to make the first move. Another thing that I learned is that this is like chess. Something that I would like to change is that I would not attack so much and I would sit back and shoot with my archers for longer. I think that is a better strategy because you will get more people dead and you will lose less people. Something that I thought I did well in was that I sent my Cavalry last when the other team was trying to flee which helped and I killed a lot more people.