From my understanding, once you touch a piece in "real" chess, you have to move it.
If that is the case, and you don't see a Bishop on the other side of the board, thus blundering into a checkmate, how is that not allowed?
Or, can you in fact blunder into a checkmate? The FIDE rulebook seemingly says you can't.
1.2 The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a
way that the opponent has no legal move. The player who achieves this goal is said
to have ‘checkmated’ the opponent’s king and to have won the game. Leaving
one’s own king under attack, exposing one’s own king to attack and also ’capturing’
the opponent’s king are not allowed. The opponent whose king has been
checkmated has lost the game.
That makes very little sense to me. Please explain in a very slow, rational, delicate manner for a Chess Noob.
If that is the case, and you don't see a Bishop on the other side of the board, thus blundering into a checkmate, how is that not allowed?
Or, can you in fact blunder into a checkmate? The FIDE rulebook seemingly says you can't.
1.2 The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a
way that the opponent has no legal move. The player who achieves this goal is said
to have ‘checkmated’ the opponent’s king and to have won the game. Leaving
one’s own king under attack, exposing one’s own king to attack and also ’capturing’
the opponent’s king are not allowed. The opponent whose king has been
checkmated has lost the game.
That makes very little sense to me. Please explain in a very slow, rational, delicate manner for a Chess Noob.
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