Answers.Body: <p>This is checkmate. </p>
  
  <p>According to the fide rules (bold by me):</p>
  
  <p>1.2<br>
  The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move. The player who achieves this goal is said to have ‘checkmated’ the opponent’s king and to have won the game. Leaving one’s own king under attack, exposing one’s own king to attack and also ’capturing’ the opponent’s king are not allowed. The opponent whose king has been checkmated has lost the game.</p>
  
  <p>3.9<br>
  The king is said to be 'in check' if it is attacked by one or more of the opponent's pieces, <strong>even if such pieces are constrained from moving to that square because they would then leave or place their own king in check</strong>. No piece can be moved that will either expose the king of the same colour to check or leave that king in check.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Perfectly good explanation. If you want a more hand-wavy reason: If kings could be captured in chess, black would capture the white king first (before white could capture the black king).
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Body: <p>Does Black's pinned knight on <code>g4</code> protect the bishop on <code>f2</code> from the white king?</p>
  
  <pre><code>B2N4/8/3p2p1/Q2P4/4R1nk/7b/PPP2bpP/1R4K1 w - - 0 1
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Comments.Text: Short answer: this is checkmate. I'll leave to someone else giving you the details.
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Tags: <checkmate>
Title: Is White checkmated?
ThreadText: # Is White checkmated?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-11-21)
  
  Does Black's pinned knight on `g4` protect the bishop on `f2` from the white king?
  
  ```
  B2N4/8/3p2p1/Q2P4/4R1nk/7b/PPP2bpP/1R4K1 w - - 0 1
  
  ```
  
  **Tags:** checkmate
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Short answer: this is checkmate. I'll leave to someone else giving you the details.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-11-21. Score: 5 | Accepted answer
  
  This is checkmate.
  
  According to the fide rules (bold by me):
  
  1.2  
  The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move. The player who achieves this goal is said to have ‘checkmated’ the opponent’s king and to have won the game. Leaving one’s own king under attack, exposing one’s own king to attack and also ’capturing’ the opponent’s king are not allowed. The opponent whose king has been checkmated has lost the game.
  
  3.9  
  The king is said to be 'in check' if it is attacked by one or more of the opponent's pieces, **even if such pieces are constrained from moving to that square because they would then leave or place their own king in check**. No piece can be moved that will either expose the king of the same colour to check or leave that king in check.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: Perfectly good explanation. If you want a more hand-wavy reason: If kings could be captured in chess, black would capture the white king first (before white could capture the black king).  
  
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