The pawn

Pawns are worth 1 point and there're not that useless, here's why.

-Pawns move one square forward and take one square diagonally forward.

- There is also a special move called "en passant"

-When the pawn goes to the other side of the board, it's called a promotion. You can promote it to a queen, a rook, a bishop or a knight.

You can give your opponent a check, like this:

and mate like this: