i got my friend check-mated with my queen but then he attacked my queen with his bishop can he do that?Does that mean he wasn't in check mate?
2006-11-06 10:49:34 · 17 answers · asked by Speeding D 4 in Games & Recreation ➔ Board Games
Checkmate always ends the game right then and there.
The question is a bit confusing... perhaps you THOUGHT you had him checkmated with a diagonal attack from your Queen, but he was actually able to block the Queen's attack with his Bishop?
Checkmate occurs when a King is attacked, and cannot escape the attack by any of these three methods:
1) Capturing the attacking piece
2) Moving your King to a safe square
3) Interposing a piece between your King and the attacking piece.
If your friend could answer the check by interposing a piece, which it sounds like this might have happened, then you didn't have him checkmated after all, but simply had him "in check".
If doing one of these three things ALSO allows him to counter-attack your attacking piece, then that is legal. But the check MUST be answered immediately...no ifs, ands or buts.
If he tried attacking your Queen from a different direction (other than interposing his Bishop between your Queen and his King), then no, he can't do that, the check MUST be answered immediately. If he can't, then it's checkmate.
2006-11-06 10:57:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If by taking the queen, he is able to remove the King from the status of being in check, then he would be able to attack the queen with his bishop.
Generally you should indicate checkmate when the King is placed in check, through an attack of a piece like your Queen, and your opponent has no way of extracting the King from check through moving to an adjacent square.
In this case, attacking and removing the piece placing the King in check is the opponent's only choice to remain in the game.
2006-11-06 23:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by Marcella G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your friend wasn't in check-mate. You just had him in check as he was able to attack your queen. Check-mate means they're in check w/no moves left that would get the king out of check & of course the game ends.
2006-11-07 00:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by cedrpt#1fan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If his bishop can make a legal move then yes he can attack your queen. Also that was just a check.
2006-11-06 18:54:17 · answer #4 · answered by cimpuazaj c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If he's truly in check-mate then no he can't. However, if his bishop attacking your queen removed him from "check-mate" then he wasn't in it in the first place.....he was only in Check.
2006-11-06 18:58:31 · answer #5 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are in check and it is still your turn you have to move out of check or capture the piece that is putting you in check or block it with another piece by going in front of the king in the appropriate direction. If you are in check and move your king but you are still in check where you moved to then the other player must say please make the legal move if there is one. If there isn't a legal move then it's checkmate
2006-11-06 18:54:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um...You had him check-mated? That's the end of the game, then. Unless you mean that you had him checked with your queen, and he killed the queen. That's a perfectly legal way to escape a check, yes.
2006-11-06 18:51:32 · answer #7 · answered by Ultimatum479 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your queen was the only piece that was checking his king then If he were able to take your queen then he was not checkmated.
2006-11-06 18:53:26 · answer #8 · answered by dreaming_again2002 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it stops the king from being in check then it was not checkmate
2006-11-06 18:52:12 · answer #9 · answered by Michael K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No he cannot. Once his king is in check and can't move anywhere then he is in checkmate and he has lost.
2006-11-06 19:00:58 · answer #10 · answered by Cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋