can kings touch now?

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heeshin
Can kings touch now? Has there been some weird rule change?
Sir_TrashPanda

No.

manekapa

See this post:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/where-to-place-kings-on-board-after-1-0-0-1-0-5-0-5#comment-27746072

Woollensck3
Kings touching ! ……sounds like a couple of weirdo’s ! 🙀
Beeniiiii

Who tf thinks that kings can touch each other?

CoreyDevinPerich
No
Jaskier40

Ofc no. But the meme with Hikaru Nakamura and the king touch will be immortal imo.

TheRosemaryWitch

No. Since kings cannot move into a square under attack, this prevents the kings from touching each other, since kings can move once in every direction if not made otherwise.

Johnny_2_Cool

It ain't chess if the kings touch.

EibSchocky

Nope

BoardMonkey

They're like opposite poles of a magnet. A king cannot check a king.

BoardMonkey
Iskander1234567 wrote:
In a game, kings can't move to an attacking square, but kings can checkmate!

They can be used in a mating net but not checkmate.

soumalyajoardar
DannyStarfy

I experienced about kings touching! It's in 4 Player and more variants. I experienced that I won when I ate my opponent's king with my king after probably eating my knight. It's in this kind of variant called "Chaturajj" I'm not lying.

DannyStarfy

The 4 Player and Variants is with the button "Tournaments" and "Leaderboard" I'm not saying it's in the tournaments or leaderboard.

DannyStarfy

Also that was a long time ago. I think it was February 2023 that time

DannyStarfy

If it doesn't work, I think chess.com changed it

sameatsrice

Kings can touch now