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Rule Zero. A base or starting rule set for most Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Joseph DiMuro wrote on Sat, Aug 24, 2002 07:20 PM UTC:

In response to the last comment:

[Is there any possible stalemated position where the illegality of
exposing one's King to check is not a factor?]

This is the simplest one I can think of: White King h8; White Rook h7;
White Bishop h6; White Pawns on e7, g7, and h7; Black King e8.

::::kBRK
::::P:PP
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::::::::  (sorry for the ugly diagram)

White is stalemated, but not because it is illegal to move into check (the
king has no moves regardless).