Timeline for Bizarre pin rule: pinned pieces do not attack
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 20:52 | comment | added | supercat | Making it legal to move into check would alter the role of stalemates in the endgame; such effect might be minimized if moving into check was only legal in cases where the enemy could not capture the king without subjecting his own king to immediate capture. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 20:50 | comment | added | supercat | I wonder if it would be workable to say that moving into check was legal, and the opponent could if desired capture the enemy king, but a player whose king was captured would have one last move in which to capture his opponent's king; a situation where both kings were captured would then be a draw. In such a case, a player who was losing could move into check with impunity if the opponent could not capture him without losing his own king (the player who was losing would welcome the resulting draw), but a player who was winning would seek to avoid letting his opponent secure a draw. | |
| Oct 24, 2013 at 7:26 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | Interesting first position! The question is, is white in check? The knight is pinned, but by a piece that is itself pinned. If Nxc6 is legal, then surely the white king is also attacked? | |
| Nov 18, 2012 at 10:40 | history | edited | Nikana Reklawyks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Moar weirdish !
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| Nov 18, 2012 at 2:19 | comment | added | ETD | Regarding your final paragraph, I side with @Danielδ in that I think the rule still makes perfectly good sense here. I think the paradoxical feeling you have is mostly due to your ingrained sense of what is allowable in terms of standard pins. E.g. you write "the knight is pinned after all," but a "pin" in this setting is just a somewhat different beast than in chess proper, and it renders new things (im)possible. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 20:28 | history | edited | Nikana Reklawyks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
explained it
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| Nov 17, 2012 at 20:27 | comment | added | Daniel | The rule set still makes sense here. That capture is a legal move, though the position is quite tricky. Once the white rook is captured, the black rook is pinning the white bishop, hence black isn't in check. That "meantime" to which you refer doesn't matter, since White has no power until his turn. | |
| Nov 17, 2012 at 20:18 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2012 at 20:16 | history | edited | Nikana Reklawyks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2012 at 19:45 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2012 at 19:33 | history | answered | Nikana Reklawyks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |