favorite chess piece

what is your favorite chess piece?

Knights. I fell in love with them when I was a beginner, and it's not everyday you see an amazing technique like the windmill being pulled off.

Pawns cause they have such cute little balls on top. So soft, and rubbery!

ok how old are you woodshover? even i dont say that

 I'll be six months old next June.

Castles are the best piece by far

I love the king.

that explains why you always try to mate him. 

not it you mate with the queen. 

those homophobes

The Psychology of Chess is quite an amazing book: useless to both psychologists and chessplayers. I don't think any other book on the subject attained that level of failure.

bishop is my choice, i love to control the diagonals from a safe distance...

Oh god don't make me choose!

Okay, the horse guy.

 When I am asked about my favorite chess book there are always several that come to mind and its hard to choose from them sometimes. I dont have a similar problem when asked about the worst chess book I have read and its the Psychology of Chess by Fine. At least he did also write Ideas behind the Chess Openings which I liked a lot and there is his famous endgame book as well.....

Excerpt from the Psychology of Chess :

From page 12 : (the King) "stands for the boy's penis in the phallic stage, and hence re-arouses the castration anxiety characteristic of that period." 

From page 25 : The libidinal conflicts gratified in chess center around those common to all men at the anal-phallic levels of development, particularly aggression, narcissism and the attitude towards the penis." 

Hehe

I'm usually pretty pro-phallic, but my favorite piece is the Queen, probably due to my latent, repressed Electra Complex and gender dysphoria.

Then again, it does control the center nicely and can suddenly reposition an attack way across the board in just one move.

My favorite piece is the one I just lost.

"You don't miss your water...'til the well runs dry."

Hey.. Ill actually answer the op... specifically. Sheesh (scrolling through some of the crazy posts).. just another reason why my midle school chess team (and their parents) have to use chesskid.com and not chess.com.

I love knights in the middle through the end game where I have them posted deep in enemy territory and the threat of Knight forks abound.

welll tonydal i dont want to give out my privacy. the birthdate on my profile is completely wrong

The Queen Duh...