Can a king attack another king?

Question

Can a king attack another king?

Answer 1

nope

Answer 2

For a king to capture another king, it meant that your opponent would have had to come within one spot of your king with his king, thereby intentionally putting himself in check and there is absolutely no reason to do so.

If you can't make a move without putting yourself into check, it's a stalemate and a tie game.

Answer 3

Y'know, I've always sorta wondered the same thing.

IF you live & die by the rule that a King "cannot move into check," then it seems perfectly reasonable to me that a King CAN mate the other King... "King's Chess."

For instance... your opponent has only his King.  You have trapped him in his first row with a rook covering his whole second row.  He's also pinned by others of your pieces where he has only two lateral side-by-side spaces to safely move, which he does, left and right and left and right.

Why couldn't you then mate him by bringing your King directly up against him in the second row, protected by that same Rook?  Your King "attacks" him where he stands And now eliminates his old "escape space."  

Even though he has the "power" to "kill" your King in a next move, he'd be moving himself into check (from the Rook) to accomplish the kill, thereby breaking the rule.

How am I wrong here ???

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

ok let me put it this way

why would u want to attack a

king who can move only 1

space @ a time while only u

can move 1 space @ a time you

basically let ur opponet win by default!!!

So no u cant attack another king with a king

Answer 6

in checkers, yes. in chess, no

Answer 7

you never actually "attack" the king.

Answer 8

Of course not. You're supposed to trap your opponent's king while protecting your own. If you put your king next to the other king, that means you are offering it to kill your king which in a chess game is NOT ALLOWED. That's one of the most important things to know when playing chess; you are supposed to protect your king at any cost and you can never kill your opponent's king, you are supposed to trap it.

Answer 9

They are fools, quarraling like children, innocent, why do they settle their issues, win a friend on X-MAS? God MAY BLESS US, TO MAKE OURSELVES WISER.

Answer 10

no, Never.

Answer 11

You would have to be in check to do so.  The answer is no.