Whenever a new capture is made or a pawn makes a move, this countdown gets reset. Chess does have a rule known as the 50 moves rule, but the countdown is from the last capture or the last pawn move, not from the time when a player has only one king left. There is no rule in Chess to this effect. To capture.) If I have only a king left, how many moves does my opponent have to mate me? In all other cases, the player can decide whether or not The only way to lift the check is to capture. (There is one case where one must capture: when your king is in check and Is that he is not in check after the move.
So the answer is: the king can attack when he is in check. King, and the piece that checks is taken, either by the king or by another He is not checked (and this may be done with and without taking a piece),Ī piece is interposed between the checking piece and the There are three possible ways to get out of check: the king moves to a square Can a King attack when he is in check or must he move out of check without attacking? In chess, one is never allowed to take one's own pieces. It allows my king to take any of my own pieces whenever it wants, is this Are kings allowed to take their own pieces? I have a computer chess game - Chess Magician 3.0. That a king is allowed to take a piece of the opponent that is a king move away and not defended by the opponent. Of course, kings may only move to squares where they are not in check this means Can kings take the pieces of the opponent? There is only promotion when a pawn reaches the King promotion? I've been playing a particular opponent who believes that there is promotionĪvailable if you manage to get your king to the other side of the board. Game, there is indeed a rule that forbids kings from facing each other on the same file with nothing in between them. It is illegal for kings to be adjacent to each other.Ĭonfusion may have arisen from a rule of Xiangqi - Chinese Chess. The same rank or file with no pieces between them. What is not allowed for kings is to be at adjacentĪnother king would move it into check, which would be illegal.īut it is perfectly legal for kings to be on Kings Can you tell me if there is such a rule as king's facing in chess (whereīoth kings are in line with each other)? Is this illegal? Castling can only be done with rooks and kings. It had been a habit in the UK in the 19th century, but if you did it now, people would think you are weird. It may continue moving until it runs into a piece, and if it is an opponent's piece, it may move to that piece's space and capture it.Īre you required to say check, or en garde, or something similar, when you attack the queen? The diagram below marks the spaces the queen may legally move to. Is there a webpage that explains the moves of the queen? However, I've seen several games played in the youth chess club where So, in theory, a player could have nine queens (when all his pawns promote), but this When a pawn reaches the last row, it promotes.įor example, it can promote to a queen, even when the player already has a queen. Is it possible to have more than one queen? Is that legal or an error of this program? Bishops Can a bishop move horizontally? The computer game program I have allows a bishop to move horizontally. Can the knight jump over pieces of the opponent?
Can the knight jump over pieces of the same player?
Knights Can the knight move when it does not jump over a piece? As I work on the other Rules of Chess FAQ pages, I am moving some questions from this page to other pages. This page is in the process of being updated.
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