Chess Rules VIII - The King (check, checkmate and stalemate)

Such as it was told before, the chess play finishes with the Checkmate to the adversary's King. The King is never captured and removed from the board, but when it is attacked (put in check), it must go out from the check in the next move (if this rule is not respected, the player will turn back and effectuate a new move, an illegal move is written up).

If there is no way of going out from check, the position is " checkmate ", and the player who took the checkmate loses the game.

If you are in check, there are three ways of playing:

1. To capture the attacking piece;
   
2. To put one of your pieces between the attacking piece and your King (unless the offensive piece is a Knight);
   
3. To move the King for a square where it is not being attacked.

If the player who's in check is not able to carry out any of the operations above mentioned, he is in checkmate and the play finished.

Both Kings have to maintain at least 1 square of distance between them, in order to not place themselves in check.

If a player is not in check, but it will not be able to do any legal move (not even with the King or the remaining pieces ), the position is of "stalemate" and the play is a drawn.

Examples of Checkmate:

Examples of check:

Example of stalemate:

In this position is the White to play and they have not any legal move to do.