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Why doesn't anyone ever promote to king? Are we stupid? (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Checkmate is when a king has no way to escape from a check.

  • US Chess Foundation

When A king

A double check is game over unless the piece checking both can be captured