Chess as Presented in Code Geass

Oh, for sure! It's a testament to the show's popularity that this particular set of circumstances happens, if not yearly, at least once every few years. I'm very pleased that this thread continues to live!

Not to beat this long-dead horse, but if it really was black to move(when I put in into the engine it was white's move but that could j be random), there is no way to stop mate in 2. 

This is like saying there are illegal moves in “The Queen’s Gambit”

Wow this forum has been going on for over a decade, I'm impressed.

Can't say I ever would have expected it, but it's a nicely intermittent source of amusement. 😊

I see.

Wow. 

Comment #69… is mine!!

Dang. I had the chance

upon watching further into the shown chess game with mao they can do whatever the hell they want with the chess pieces its not standard chess so maybe the first game was in fact losing according to code geass rules

I know this thread is ancient now, specifically the part when you guys talk about Schneizel sacrificing his king. However, the point of that scene was that Schneizel was testing Zero's (Lelouch's alternate identity, unbeknownst to almost everyone in that scene) character. Schneizel was basically throwing the game, either by making an incredibly illegal move with the intention that Zero calls it out, or by seeing if Zero would take the king which would probably be considered a victory.

I'm certain everyone in the scene understood that Schneizel moving his king adjacent to Zero's king was incredibly illegal; it was meant to have thematic value and give more characterization to Schneizel, which I think was lost on some of you. I myself haven't watched the show in a few years but I went back to look at the scene a few days ago.

After they cut to the middlegame, Lelouch moves his king one square in between Schneizel's king and comments: "Looks like you can't advance any further." You know, because kings can't put themselves in check meaning kings can never touch, which is definitely understood in the show just from that dialogue.

Ah, so what we really need to do is create the **Code Geass Variant!** that accounts for all the strangeness in the show.