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See also:DIAGRAM 2 .-Showing See also:English and See also:German Methods of Notation.
adverse player saying " check," whereupon the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king must move from the square he occupies, or be screened from check by the interposition of one of his own men, or the attacking piece must be captured. If, however, when the king is in check, none of these things can be done, it is " checkmate " (See also:Persian, shah See also:mat, the king is dead), known generally as " See also:mate," whereupon the See also:game terminates, the player whose king has been thus check-mated being the loser. When the adversary has only his king See also:left, it is very easy to checkmate him with only a See also:queen and king, or only a See also:rook and king. The problem is less easy with king and two bishops, and still less easy with king, See also:knight and See also:bishop, in which See also:case the opposing king has to be driven into a corner square whose See also:colour corresponds with the bishop's, mate being given with the bishop. A king and two knights cannot mate. To mate with king and rook the opposing king must be driven on to one of the four See also:side files and kept there with the rook on the next See also:file, till it is held by the other king, when the rook mates.
The See also:pawn gives check in the same way as he captures, viz. diagonally. One king cannot give check to another, nor may a king be moved into check.
" Check by See also:discovery " is given when a player, by moving one of his pieces, checks with another of them. "See also:Double check" means attacking the king at once with two pieces—one of the pieces in this case giving check by discovery.
" Perpetual check " occurs when one player, seeing that he cannot win the game, finds the men so placed that he can give check ad infinitum, while his adversary cannot possibly avoid it. The game is then See also:drawn. A game is
also drawn " if, before touching a See also:man, the Knight's move. player whose turn it is to See also:play, claims that the
game be treated as drawn, and proves that the existing position existed, in the game and at the commencement of his turn of play, twice at least before the See also:present turn."
" Stalemate." When a king is not in check, but his owner has no move left See also:save such as would See also:place the king in check, it is " stalemate," and the game is drawn.
" Castling." This is a See also:special move permitted to the king once only in the game.
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