user5879: I am playing a game at the moment and I want to know if the King can take a piece that is being protected by another piece... that cannot move. 
Why can't the other, protecting, piece move? Because it would put the other King in check. 

In other words: Can the Black King take the White Rook?

user3872: No, the black king cannot capture the rook in the position. The simple explanation is that the white knight will capture your king before your rook captures your opponents king. Personally, chess should not have rules such as check and checkmate. The aim of the game should be to capture the king, not checkmate the king. I speculate that these rules of checking and checkmate was formed by etiquette anyways since even in Xiang qi where the object is to capture the "king," you still say check, and I learn that it was a convention of etiquette. .

5879: <p>I am playing a game at the moment and I want to know if the King can take a piece that is being protected by another piece... that cannot move. </p>

<p>Why can't the other, protecting, piece move? Because it would put the other King in check. </p>

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<p>In other words: Can the Black King take the White Rook?</p>
 3872: <p>No, the black king cannot capture the rook in the position. The simple explanation is that the white knight will capture your king before your rook captures your opponents king. Personally, chess should not have rules such as check and checkmate. The aim of the game should be to capture the king, not checkmate the king. I speculate that these rules of checking and checkmate was formed by etiquette anyways since even in Xiang qi where the object is to capture the "king," you still say check, and I learn that it was a convention of etiquette. .</p>
