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Rule question: check & checkmate

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BDING
Jan 12, 2009
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#1

Situation:

Black rook is in front of white queen.

White queen is protecting white king.

White queen moves out of the row, exposing the white king to the black rook.

Is the game over?  Is that checkmate?  Or does white get a chance to move again?

Thanks for your help as we are newbies trying to learn the 'right way'

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MathBandit
Jan 12, 2009
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#2

That's an illegal move, White cannot make it.  If White has no legal moves (when it is White's turn), the game ends in Stalemate, a draw.

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dc1985
Jan 12, 2009
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#3

I'm afraid white's queen is about to be traded for a black rook...

Take the rook, or move your king, either way, it will happen.

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TadDude
Jan 12, 2009
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#4

FIDE Laws of Chess. Reset the board to the position before the illegal move. If you play touch move you will have to move the queen if legal.

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.

7.4

  1. If during a game it is found that an illegal move, including failing to meet the requirements of the promotion of a pawn or capturing the opponent’s king, has been completed, the position immediately before the irregularity shall be reinstated. If the position immediately before the irregularity cannot be determined, the game shall continue from the last identifiable position prior to the irregularity. The clocks shall be adjusted according to Article 6.14. Article 4.3 applies to the move replacing the illegal move. The game shall then continue from this reinstated position.

  2. After the action taken under Article 7.4(a), for the first two illegal moves by a player the arbiter shall give two minutes extra time to his opponent in each instance; for a third illegal move by the same player, the arbiter shall declare the game lost by this player.
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likesforests
Jan 12, 2009
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#5

White gets a chance to move again--the penalty is he must move the same piece again, if possible. In this case that probably means he'll play queen takes rook.