Answers.Body: <p>Very basic Question : You can never capture your piece.</p>
  
  <p>Be it anybody at the start of their Chess Career or even a Professional it may feel sometimes that if I would not have my own Pawn in front of my Piece I could have captured my Opponents Piece or could have started a Great attack but this is where the embodiment of a high level Chess thinking starts . </p>
  
  <p>You need to either sometimes sacrifice your pawn or piece in order to achieve a greater Activity or occupy a file in order to squeeze your Opponent . </p>
  
  <p>Your imagination needs to be extended in order to think deeper to evade that checkmate from your Dad . </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>From the <a href="https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf" rel="noreferrer">FIDE Laws of Chess</a>, §3.1:</p>
  
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    <p><strong>It is not permitted to move a piece to a square occupied by a piece of the same colour.</strong> If a  piece  moves  to  a  square  occupied  by  an  opponent’s  piece the  latter  is  captured  and  removed  from  the  chessboard  as  part  of  the  same  move.</p>
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  <p>(emphasis mine).</p>
  
  <p>So you can't capture your own piece.</p>
  
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Body: <p>This may seem like a very amateur question, but I was playing chess with my dad, and when my dad won, I realized that I could've captured my own pawn in order to evade checkmate. I tried to do this move, but my dad said that it was cheating to do so. Can anybody settle this debate?</p>
  
Tags: <rules><checkmate><captures>
Title: Can I capture my own pieces?
ThreadText: # Can I capture my own pieces?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-23)
  
  This may seem like a very amateur question, but I was playing chess with my dad, and when my dad won, I realized that I could've captured my own pawn in order to evade checkmate. I tried to do this move, but my dad said that it was cheating to do so. Can anybody settle this debate?
  
  **Tags:** rules, checkmate, captures
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-02-23. Score: 7 | Accepted answer
  
  From the [FIDE Laws of Chess](https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf), §3.1:
  
  > **It is not permitted to move a piece to a square occupied by a piece of the same colour.** If a piece moves to a square occupied by an opponent’s piece the latter is captured and removed from the chessboard as part of the same move.
  
  (emphasis mine).
  
  So you can't capture your own piece.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-02-24. Score: 1
  
  Very basic Question : You can never capture your piece.
  
  Be it anybody at the start of their Chess Career or even a Professional it may feel sometimes that if I would not have my own Pawn in front of my Piece I could have captured my Opponents Piece or could have started a Great attack but this is where the embodiment of a high level Chess thinking starts .
  
  You need to either sometimes sacrifice your pawn or piece in order to achieve a greater Activity or occupy a file in order to squeeze your Opponent .
  
  Your imagination needs to be extended in order to think deeper to evade that checkmate from your Dad .
  
  
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