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To answer your question [copied from the page Rules of Chess]:

Pawns that reach the last row of the board promote. When a player moves a
pawn to the last row of the board, he replaces the pawn by a queen, rook,
knight, or bishop (of the same color). Usually, players will promote the
pawn to a queen, but the other types of pieces are also allowed. (It is
not required that the pawn is promoted to a piece taken. Thus, it is for
instance possible that a player has at a certain moment two queens.)

The information is there under the section on pawns. 

So, you may promote a pawn to a lost piece, but it is not required that
there be a lost piece available to promote a pawn.

Can a player move their king into check? For example: let o represent a
white pawn, let O represent a black pawn, let t represent a white king,
and let T represent a black king.

Set-up (before)

___________________________
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|t|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|o|_|_|T|_|_|_|_|
|O|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|O|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|

Set-up (after)

__________________
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|o|t|_|T|_|_|_|_|
|O|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|O|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|

Is this possible?

The following is copied from the Rules of Chess page. It is found in the Moves section, under King.

The king is the most important piece of the game, and moves must be made in such a way that the king is never in check.

So, no. A king in [standard] chess may never move into check.

people resign games, most games are won that way.
someone will see that they are going to get checkmated in a few moves, so
they resign, or if they are positionally or materially lost they will
resign.

ik hou van jou Steeph! fantastisch gespeeld, ik had enkel maar geluk omdat
ik slaagde je af te leiden bij die ene zet.  volgende keer versla je me
zeker.
XOXOOX
Speed Freak :p

1.  Instead of saying that a black square should be in the bottom left
hand
corner you should say that a white square should be in the bottom right
hand corner.  Hence the rule when teaching beginners ' White on the
right'
2.  When describing the rook you could mention that it is also called a
castle - that's what I have always known it by.

Overall I like it very much - I am in the process of teaching my grandson

1. e4 
.. e5
2. Horsey f3
.. Horsey c6 

hey, i like it!

Some quotes:

'We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know.' Bruce Pandolfini

'A computer beated me in chess, but it was no match when it came to kickboxing.' Emo Philips

'Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.'

Viktor Korchnoi

'A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you´ll have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!'

Savielly Tartakower

'I failed to make the chess team because of my height.'

Woody Allen

'My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.'

Dave Barry

' Knight jumps the Queen!, Pawn takes Queen!, Bishop takes Queen, Everybody takes the Queen!'

Mel Brooks 'History of the World, Pt 1'

En passant--why only available to pawns? Originally, pawns were only allowed to advance one square at a time. To expedite matters, pawns were permitted an initial additional move, e.g. two squares at a time.

Since the intention was only to speed up the game, but not merely to avoid combat, if one used the option of advancing a pawn two squares, the opponent could act as if two separate moves were made, intercept/capture the pawn right away--when it was fresh in all players minds that the position was a result of the pawn having advanced two squares.

Kings, that normally only move one square, are by exception allowed to make two moves during castling but are not permitted to castle through a square that is in check for similar reasons--it's two separate moves done at once.

As I was teaching my six-year-old son about en passant I realized that I utilized the pawn's two-square perogative to avoid combat with his bishop by overstepping the square he was attacking! While he didn't question my move nor denigrate or impugn my integrity, I can forsee that one day he might recognize the inconsistency of a rule that grants pawns the power to intercept en passant but not other pieces.

What is the rationale for emasculating pieces from excercising en passant power?

RSVP

JTS

player since 1970s,

rated around 1600.

Gilbert: this is an ongoing debate. For a good introduction see Jean-Louis
Cazaux's excellent discussion at,

http://history.chess.free.fr/comparison.htm

Gilbert Luong asks if anyone knows why Chess and Xianqi are so similar in
game play.  But we should also mention Shogi.  And there are some other
closely related variants too.  My guess is that Chess, Shogi, and Xianqi
all originated from the older Shatranj.  And of course there is Korean
Chess, which is a spin-off of Chinese Chess.

On a somewhat related note, as it pertains to game and piece evolution, I
created Shatranj Darwinian (a game at CV) a while back as a model to show
how pieces could have evolved from simple Wazir and Ferz to the peices we
see today in both Western and Chinese Chess.  Such a piece evolution seems
quite logical.

Hi there, I was just reviewing the rules of chess after I had finished teaching my brother how to play, and a weird question came up. Can you answer this, if your king advances into the end of the chess board, are you able to regain an eliminated chess piece? Thank you for your time.

P.S. I like the layout of the page, it could use a little colour though!

No... in chess you never regain lost pieces.
However, pawns promote to Rook, Knight, Bishop, or Queen upon reaching the
8th rank.

The question was: Can any piece be reinstalled in the board after the king
reaches the other end of the board. 

Answer: NO!

great site

If, during a game, it is found that an illegal move was made, the position shall be reinstated to what it was before the illegal move was made. The game shall then continue by applying the rules of Article 7 to the move replacing the illegal move. If the position cannot be reinstated, the game shall be annulled and a new game played.

This is good to understand the ruls of the game Chess .
The digram of chess board , moves are really helpful to the new learner &
the discription is nice .

In response to George Duke's comments on the World Chess Championship:

I am responding here because apparently on members can respond on the
message board where George Duke's post appears, and I am not a member.

Najdorf was born in Poland and resettled in Argentina, so I would not
exactly say he was 'from Argentina.'  As far as him being the 'other
leading western hemisphere grandmaster since Capablanca', even if he if
was from the western hemisphere, it would not be correct.  Sammy Reshevsky
(born in Poland, resettled in USA in early childhood) and Reuben Fine (born
in the USA) both had careers equal to or greater than Najdorf's, although
Fine's was admittedly shortened when he left chess to become a full-time
psychologist.

can i play?

Read the description of the knight's move again. It's one horizontally or vertically, and then one diagonally. The 'one and two' description you're thinking of doesn't mention diagonal movement -- it's one vertically, then two horizontally or it's one horizontally, then two vertically.

Both descriptions get the knight to the same places.

sir or madam, why can i not take the black pieces?  only being able to move
the white pieces is very restricting and one dimensional.

Yet the best 80 square game - a Capablanca setup or like maybe ahem ... Gothic is much more constricted (and feels awkward) than 64 square fischer random or std chess. This is actual play experience. Perhaps its because the pieces are too powerful -
but in all seriousness the challenge of 10x10 has already been overcome by the most successful commercial variant - Omega Chess. And Birds and Ninjas /Stealth Ninja chess take it one step further. Ninja pawns, strengten the pawn chain and provide enough pawn play for a 10x10 which Omega might lack.

Besides choosing certain setups of fischer random plus reverse symmetry start positions of displacement chess (and Displacement Chess 2 with flexible castling) will ensure 64 square gold standard for say 200 years.

Interesting quote from 'The Pan Book of Chess' by Gerald Abrahams :

Capablanca, at the height of his powers, suggested that so much had been learned in Chess that novelty was on the wane. He suggested the addition of extra pieces on a larger board. But he lived to discover that Chess was richer than he had thought it to be.

From the previous post: 'If my king is on G1 ... can the opponent move their king to g2'?

No. At no time in [standard] chess is a king allowed to move next to the enemy king, under any circumstances, including 'can the opponent move their king to g2 to mate me because of their bishop protecting the king?'

The rules state a player may never move the king into a position where it can be taken next turn. No exception is made for a 'check' or 'checkmate' of the other king by the player's own king.

Yes, the pawn, the bishops and the queen.

Hugs!

George, I am in favor of the chess after FIDE Chess being called 'IAGO Chess' and we be done with it :-).  I don't want it to be a dead end, and I want to allow it to evolve.  I am in favor, in a BIG way, of the IAGO Chess System being revamped in 2.0, gutted, and redone, to account for the wonderful world of what we find here on this website, and be able to evolve sanely.  I want there to be a committee that I am NOT involved with to decide the ins and outs of this.

We have an issue if we just call it 'Chess' that people will think we mean the FIDE version.

I have always advocated playing chess variants, and with me creating so  much, of course I have some stake in this. 
But, this whole notion of past chess, chess been dead, next chess just seems utterly ridiculous.  It seems there is a far greater chance of some world wide catastrophe happening in my lifetime, like some obscure gamma ray burst from an unknown star,  or some rock from outer space string earth or nuclear war than chess dying. 

These are the numbers quoted around:
>>Today more than 285 million people play chess with other chess
players from all over the world, via the internet. It is estimated 605
million people worldwide know how to play chess. Of these 7.5 million
are registered players, covering 160 countries worldwide. Making chess
one of the most popular sports around the world.>> 

If you think these are exaggerated then explain why millions of people are registering for these chess sites?

Chess is popular despite tv, video games and interactive (m)ass media all of which should have struck a nail in its heart. 



It seems it would be far more constructive to speak about the merits of any proposed new game or system rather than harp on this supposed demise of chess and say, 'There chess  is dead, play our new untested game instead!'

Charles, did you just bring a note of sanity to this conversation? Shame on
you! 

The Midnight Skulker

Hey Rookayah!

There is no 21 move rule for a win, but there IS a 50 move rule and a 3 move repetition rule for a draw.  Here is how they work:

50 move rule
---
If 50 moves are made by both sides without a pawn move or capture, then one of the players can claim a draw.

3 move repetition
---
If the same position is repeated throughout the entirety of the game three times, then one of the players can claim a draw.

I can't recall any other rules involving the number of moves.  I hope this helps.

Best,
Nick

Thank you for your response Nicholas.
I think the 21 move rule was invented by somebody....as my kids at school
were using it for a while now.
Lucky that I checked with you before any more damage was done!
Any specials tricks that you could teach me are most welcome.
I run a chess club at my school.
I'll keep in touch.

We're playing a game and my opponent checks me I move but I move into
check but me or my opponent don't realize it so we continue playing three
moves later he realizes that that first move I made to get out of check I
was still in check how does the game go do we continue to play after the
mistake wasn't caught until 3 moves later

In casual games and in rapid chess one normally just continues playing, moving the king out of check. If both players agree, however, they can go back to the earlier position. In tournament games, if only a few moves have been made, one would typically go back to the checked position and continue from there. As moves are recorded it's easier. However, if one player has achieved a winning advantage many moves later, one cannot go back, but must play on.
/Mats

No, a game cannot be annulled. Generally, the play simply continues. It is the competetive aspect that must be emphasized. One doesn't slavishly hold to rules.
/Mats