ANSWERS: 5
-
i believe it is called checkmate but i am probably wrong as i am not too good at chess.
-
It does not matter whether the piece is pinned or not. A king is not allowed to move into check, (or through a position where it would be checked if castling). The easiest way to think of it is that the game is over once a king is killed. The fact that the other king could then be killed is irrelevant. So you cant move a piece that is pinned out of a pin, but it can still be used to check or checkmate. (A piece that is pinned can still move - jsut not out of the pin - e.g. a bishop pinned by a bishop can still move along the diagonal away from or towards the pinning bishop and thus could call check or checkmate. For it to be checkmate - the pinning bishop itself would have to be pinned or the bishop calling check would be a double check - otherwise the other bishop could just take it). Hope that helps.
-
If you can not make any moves at all, for instance you have 2 pawns both squared off against other pawns, and to move your king would be moving it into check (not allowed) and you had no other peices, then the game would default to a draw (stalemate).
-
As others have said, the king can never move into check. I think of the potential moves of an opposing piece as being a force field that the king can't penetrate. Unless a piece is pinned on the king, it is free to move out of the pin.
-
You cannot move into check even if the other piece is pinned. If at this point in the game there is no other move possible, the game is a draw. If the player that played before knew that this was going to happen and did this on purpose than it means that he probably did not think he could win or probably did not want to put any more effort into the game and therefore wanted to draw. If he did this without realizing it, maybe there was a chance that he could have maneuvered the game to force a win.
Copyright 2023, Wired Ivy, LLC

by 