In chess, what term is given to the situation where a king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured?
King (chess) than the bishop is . Unicode defines two codepoints for king: ♔ U+2654 White Chess King (HTML ♔) ♚ U+265A Black Chess King (HTML ♚) King (chess) In chess, the king (♔,♚) is the most important piece. The object of the game is to threaten the opponent's king in such a way that escape is not possible (checkmate). If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be "in check", and the player must remove the threat of on the next move. If this cannot be done, the king is said to be in checkmate, resulting in
Check (chess) (c. 700–800) introduced the idea of warning that the king was under attack (announcing "check" in modern terminology). This was done to avoid the early and accidental end of a game. Later the Persians added the additional rule that a king could not be moved into check or left in check. As a result, the king could not be captured . In this usage, the words "check" and "chess" come via Arabic from Persian "shāh", meaning "king" or "monarch" . Bibliography Check (chess) A check is a condition in chess, shogi, and xiangqi that occurs when a player's king (or