The Craziest King Moves Ever
In one of my recent articles, I mentioned a funny story where an illegal king move was played, which made me wonder: what are the craziest king moves in the history of chess?
So here I am presenting the games where such moves were made. In order to be considered, the king moves should be:
- Legal
- Good
- Crazy
I mean really crazy -- the move that would be the last that comes to your mind when you look at the position!
Unfortunately, it immediately disqualifies the Bogo-King's Indian move from the above-mentioned article, since it is illegal. That's really a shame as that would be definitely the craziest king move in the history of chess:
The following game, which also had a touch-move accident, gets disqualified too since the king move was very bad:
Wikipedia explains that at that time, the rule required the player who played an illegal move to move his king. In this game, White played an illegal move and therefore was forced to move his king, where he was promptly checkmated.
The craziest king move I have ever seen is both legal and strong.
Unfortunately, it wasn't played in a real game and was just a brainchild of a famous composer, Sam Loyd. We already analyzed this puzzle in this article. Try to solve this problem on your own. White starts and checkmates Black's king in three moves.
If you cannot solve this problem, think what would be the most ridiculous move in that position 
