Can a king moved to square that is attacked by a pinned piece?
On the chessboard, there is the following situation. One player, say white, has a knight, that is `pinned’ by a bishop of the opponent, i.e., the knight is between the black bishop and the white king, so if the knight would move, then the king is checked. Is in this situation black allowed to move to a square attacked by the knight? No, such a move is not allowed. The king would be on a square, attacked by a piece of its opponent. That this attacking piece would put its own king in check when it would take the king is not important here – what matters is that it can move to the square with the king on it. The logics behind the rule is that the white knight could take the black king, and white would take the black king earlier than black could take the white king. In the example, the black king may not move to b5 (the square marked with a red circle), even while the white knight that attacks that square is pinned.
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