Editing Rules of chess (section)

==== Checkmate ====
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|White is checkmated; Black wins.<ref>{{Harvcol|Harkness|1967}}</ref>
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If a player's king is placed in check and there is no legal move that player can make to escape check, then the king is said to be ''[[checkmate]]d'', the game ends, and that player loses.<ref>{{Harvcol|Schiller|2003|pp=20–21}}</ref> Unlike the other pieces, the king is never captured.{{sfn|FIDE|2023|loc=article 1.4.1}}

The diagram shows an example checkmate position. The white king is threatened by the black queen; the empty square to which the king could move is also threatened; and the king cannot capture the queen, because it would then be in check by the rook.
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