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The king is never captured (except in some high-speed chess games, where you lose if you make an illegal move, and your opponent may go through the motions of capturing your king to show that you made an illegal move, which left your king in check, and thereby lost the game. Your opponent can even move a pinned chessman and leave his or her own king in check to do this, since you already lost and the game is over anyway.) A capture is when a chessman is removed from the chessboard and is eliminated from the game. Except for en passant captures, this happens when you move a chessman to a square occupied by your opponent’s chessman. The move captures that opponent’s chessman on that square. You cannot capture your own chessman. You can capture en passant as described on the pawn page. |