is the kings value infinite or 0

Until they become passed pawns. Outside passed pawns may even be more valuable than other passed pawns.

Agreed that king value is irrelevant and can be anything you'd like it to be. Although if I had to choose between 0 and infinite, I'd say logically it makes more sense to be infinite. If the king is "captured" (checkmate indicating that the king would be captured on the next turn), then the game is over. A "0" value makes it sound like the king is worthless, when it fact it's the only thing that matters.

I think the king´s value is the game because when you checkmate the king, you win the game. The game is based solely off of making it so that the king cannot escape check because it is the most valuable and important piece that the game depends upon.

If its value was zero, you wouldn't care if the opponent attacked it. Worth nothing anyway.

The fighting strength of the King in the endgame is about four points.

Infinite. Because engines always give the highest priority attacking to king, It's the most valuable piece. that said, his abilities are limited.

In short; it is the most valuable but not the most capable one. 

its about 3-4 if youre allowed to sacrifise the kig

Imagine, what does an engine do when it sees a checkmate but after the sacrifices of 5 pieces? 2 Queen 2 rook and a Bishop.. It of course tries to find a better way, but if it is the only way, it won't hesitate the sac them all.. It wont say, "it's just 4 (or 0) points.. nah, i wont bother.." :]

Everything is number for computers, purpose of the game is capturing the king ofc but even that action has to be represented by numbers. So it has to have the highest numerical value, in order to be treated as "the ultimate purpose".

How interesting isn’t it? The least valued piece in the beginning could very well end up deciding the game. Everyone loves an underdog. 😄  

There's a scene in the Movie "Fresh," where "Samuel L Jackson" says "You're holding on to the Queen, to much."

"The Queen is just a Pawn with fancy moves."

And in the Film, "Searching for Bobby Fischer," where "Ben Kingsley" says "The King is You!"

Underdog Well, a King is not physically in top shape to run around to kill enemy soldiers, but he is the Brain of the army. Basically, he is the one who makes all the plans, his men are just executing them (and his wife )

It's funny, the figure of Queen is a female in western cultures, but it's called Vizier (wazir?) or similar names in eastern countries, which means right-hand of the ruler, and it is a male character (there is no place for women in the battlefield, in eastern cultures i guess )

I remember I played a game before, name must be Stronghold or something. King is the last soldier in the army, he only fights when there is no one left to defend the city, he is brave but can only take down 3-4 men before he dies.. He is not cunning like a Queen or he has not fierceless firepower like a Rook (trebutche?)

Chess is a very balanced game, figures are very well designed. It always gave me the feeling of a real battle.

The King's value is not defined.  The purpose in giving pieces a  value is to allow a cursory determination of who's ahead and who's behind in the game (based on the sum of the values of the remaining pieces).  Since the King cannot be captured, its value is immaterial.  You can give it any value you want, and the difference between the value of the pieces remaining on the board remains the same.

infinity devided by zero i think

Kings value is equal to 5 pawns or a rook in the endgame 

I think it's "1/0"

Because it's One, that can be divyed out by Nothing.

When can you divide 1 by 0? Chess.

In chess, 1/0 is Checkmate.

Pawn = 1

Knight = 3

Bishop = 3

Rook = 5

Queen = 9

King = undefined

I think infinite because stockfish's says the best move is either free pieces attacking the king, defending your king, promoition, and obviously checkmate and @LeeBrothersPlayChess 1/0 is infinite in math (check on a calculator) which means the kings value is infinite

the reason why 1/0 is infinite is because if you say 2/1 is 1 you have to count 1 two times which is 1+1 and it's 2 but 1/0 you 0+0+0+0 and it keeps going forevery which means infinite

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