Talk:Check (chess)

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garde

Is garde (for an attack on the queen) ever used now, or is it obsolete? It is obsolete as far as I know. Bubba73 (talk), 01:38, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I asked around, and garde is pretty much obsolete. I put that in the article. Bubba73 (talk), 17:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The only players I knew that announced garde while playing chess were a couple of very old players originally from Eastern Europe who, since then, died a long time ago. H Padleckas (talk) 22:24, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Check = a condition on the board

Up until today the lede defined "check" as a threat to capture the king (which it is). User:Mann jess has changed this to define check as a move that threatens to capture the king. (Check is not a move, it is a condition brought about by a move. Check is a condition on the board. "Black is in check." If check is a move not a condition, that sentence makes no sense. Similarly, to "get out of check" makes no sense if check is a move not a condition.) The edit is a disimprovement. Ihardlythinkso (talk) 03:50, 31 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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History of check

There is no fact supporting what is written here: "In early Sanskrit chess (c. 500–700) the king could be captured and this ended the game." There is only 1 Sanskrit text dealing with chess in that period, the Harshacharita from Bana, and it doesn't give any rules. The earliest rules we have in an Indian text are from the 12th century (Manasollasa). The earliest chess rules descriptions we have come from the Muslim word, for example al-Adli. Indian, Persian or Arabian, in all known sources the game was ended before the real capture of the King. Earliest end games were checkmate (shah mat), stalemate too, and the most common was to capture the last piece of the opponent leaving his king isolated. 91.165.15.234 (talk) 18:43, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]