A you can see that the king can take the rook on e4 with Kxe4 because the rook is not defended by another piece. The one limitation the king has when moving is that it can’t move to a square that is being attacked by an opponent’s pieces.

If there was a piece on e5 that the king is capturing then you will see the notation written Kxe5.

The K represents the king and e5 represents the square it is moving to. When a king moves to a square you will see something like Ke5. It can’t jump over material so at the start of a chess game there are no legal moves for the king to make since it is surrounded by other pieces. The king can move one square in any direction. If the e1 square is white, then you will need to rotate the board so the e1 square is dark. This should be the opposite color of the king. The white chess king begins on the e1 square and the black king begins on the e8 square. The white king should be on a dark square. This article wishes to report on this lesser-known system of Hermetic divination, giving a quick overview of its history, symbolic attributions and operation, as well as discussing its peculiar casting and interpretation methods.The kings start on the e1 and e8 squares. Being a divination system in which four magical adepts actively participate in, and later interpret, also in tandem, each individual move – scrupulously recorded during game-play – it constitutes quite a unique case in Western divinatory practices. Yet during its use in the curriculum of the Adeptus Minor of the Golden Dawn magical system it moved beyond its obvious possibilities as an aid to study, contemplation and meditation of Hermetic symbolism, and developed a different system of play that allowed using it as a divination tool. It also has – as its name implies – important connections to the Enochian system of magic originally channelled by the Elizabethan Magus John Dee and his seer the alchemist Edward Kelley in the 1580s, and later modified and “Hermeticized” by Samuel Lindell MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, at the end of the nineteenth century. Apart from being able to act as a form of erudite entertainment for knowledgeable Hermeticists, it can also be used for informal, ludic group meditation and contemplation of the various elemental, geomantic, astrological and tarot symbolism its boards and pieces represent. Enochian Chess, originally named “Rosicruician Chess”, is a board game for four players comparable in some aspects to traditional chess, but adapted from the Indian four-handed Chaturanga.

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