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p.boxed
  | Giving check is forbidden, unless it is a checkmate.

p.
  Neither player is allowed to give a check, with the exception of checkmate.
  Thus, the king is much more powerful than in orthodox chess: as long as
  he can (potentially) escape, he doesn't fear attacks.
  So the king can be used to defend pieces in an unusual way.

p.
  On the following diagram, 1.Qxa6 threatens 2.Bb6
  with a mate to follow by Qxa7.
  The black rook cannot take because it would check the white king.

figure.diagram-container
  .diagram
    | fen:1k1r1b2/rP1b2p1/pQ1pp1nq/K4p1p/P4PnP/2PN2P1/3PP1B1/R1RN2B1:
  figcaption 1.Qxd8+ is forbidden because 1...Bc8 would be possible.

h3 Disambiguation

p.
  1.Qf7# is checkmate on the left diagram, because if the king takes
  then the rook on h8 gives check but not checkmate.
  However, on the right diagram 1.Qf7+ runs into 1...Kxf7#, which is now
  a legal move because the white king is checkmated.

figure.diagram-container
  .diagram.diag12
    | fen:K5kr/8/5Q2/8/8/8/8/8:
  .diagram.diag22
    | fen:K5kr/RB6/5Q2/8/8/8/8/7b:
  figcaption 1.Qf7 mates on the left, but not on the right.

h3 Source

p
  a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/usualeq.dir/checklss.html")
    | Checkless chess
  | &nbsp;on chessvariants.com, and the 
  a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkless_chess") Wikipedia page
  | .
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	1	p.boxed
	2	\| Giving check is forbidden, unless it is a checkmate.
	3
	4	p.
	5	Neither player is allowed to give a check, with the exception of checkmate.
	6	Thus, the king is much more powerful than in orthodox chess: as long as
	7	he can (potentially) escape, he doesn't fear attacks.
	8	So the king can be used to defend pieces in an unusual way.
	9
	10	p.
	11	On the following diagram, 1.Qxa6 threatens 2.Bb6
	12	with a mate to follow by Qxa7.
	13	The black rook cannot take because it would check the white king.
	14
	15	figure.diagram-container
	16	.diagram
	17	\| fen:1k1r1b2/rP1b2p1/pQ1pp1nq/K4p1p/P4PnP/2PN2P1/3PP1B1/R1RN2B1:
	18	figcaption 1.Qxd8+ is forbidden because 1...Bc8 would be possible.
	19
	20	h3 Disambiguation
	21
	22	p.
	23	1.Qf7# is checkmate on the left diagram, because if the king takes
	24	then the rook on h8 gives check but not checkmate.
	25	However, on the right diagram 1.Qf7+ runs into 1...Kxf7#, which is now
	26	a legal move because the white king is checkmated.
	27
	28	figure.diagram-container
	29	.diagram.diag12
	30	\| fen:K5kr/8/5Q2/8/8/8/8/8:
	31	.diagram.diag22
	32	\| fen:K5kr/RB6/5Q2/8/8/8/8/7b:
	33	figcaption 1.Qf7 mates on the left, but not on the right.
	34
	35	h3 Source
	36
	37	p
	38	a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/usualeq.dir/checklss.html")
	39	\| Checkless chess
	40	\|  on chessvariants.com, and the
	41	a(href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkless_chess") Wikipedia page
	42	\| .