Double check also be possible. For example, in the position shown, after Black plays 1...d5, White plays 2.exd6e.p. quintuple check (the "moa" is a non-leaping knight which first takes a diagonal step, then an orthogonal one). After the "en passant" capture, five pieces check the black king: both moas, the rook, the grasshopper and the bishop. In xiangqi, the Chinese version of chess, triple check and even quadruple check is possible even without using fairy pieces, as in the following examples: Double check In chess, a double check is a check delivered by two pieces simultaneously. In chess notation, it is almost
The Double Hook hook twice the fear." Watson wrote "The Double Hook" between 1952 and 1954 in Calgary, Alberta and revised it during a year spent in Paris. Throughout the 1950s she was unable to find a publisher. "T.S. Eliot at Faber & Faber, C. Day-Lewis at Chatto & Windus, and Rupert Hart-Davis all turned it down." McClelland & Stewart optioned the book in Canada, largely on the strength of a covering letter by Fred Salter of the University of Alberta calling it "the most brilliant piece of fiction ever written in Canada." To decide on publication, though, the company sought the opinion