<P> If this happens, the king is said to have been stalemated and the game ends in a draw . A player who has very little or no chance of winning will often try to entice the opponent to inadvertently place the player's king in stalemate in order to avoid a loss . </P> <P> In the opening and middlegame, the king will rarely play an active role in the development of an offensive or defensive position . Instead, a player will normally try to castle and seek safety on the edge of the board behind friendly pawns . In the endgame, however, the king emerges to play an active role as an offensive piece as well as assisting in the promotion of their remaining pawns . </P> <P> It is not meaningful to assign a value to the king relative to the other pieces, as it cannot be captured or exchanged . In this sense, its value could be considered infinite . As an assessment of the king's capability as an offensive piece in the endgame, it is often considered to be slightly stronger than a bishop or knight--Emanuel Lasker gave it the value of a knight plus a pawn (i.e. four points on the scale of chess piece relative value) (Lasker 1934: 73). It is better at defending nearby pawns than the knight is, and it is better at attacking them than the bishop is (Ward 1996: 13). </P> <P> Unicode defines two codepoints for king: </P>

Can you take the king of the board in chess