One ‘simple’ rule that sometimes causes confusion is the rule that the King cannot move into check, that is onto a square on which he could be captured by a piece of the opposite color. A result of this rule is that a king cannot capture the king of the opposite color, because for that to happen the king to be captured would have to have moved into check. A king can capture any piece of the opposite color on any adjacent square, so long as he does not move into check by doing so. I have known people to say that because a king cannot capture another king (a result of the rule, not the rule itself), it is possible for kings to occupy adjacent squares.
Did you say ‘learned president’? Honestly? This president has said he knows more about climate change than do people who have made a career of studying the climate. He has said he knows more about ISIS than do the generals. There is an old Arabic saying, part of which goes like this: ‘He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. . . .’
TomRadigan – How about the bit about Obama. He inherited the worst recession in decades and gave us eight years of slow but steady growth, even while extending curbs on the excesses of big business, and while other world economies were growing even more slowly.
With chickens you often cannot tell when their tubes are full of developing egg yolks. My mother used to kill a hen she thought was not laying, only of find her tubes full of yolks which might soon have gone into eggs.
And the human ovum, before conception, is a genetically unique, living human cell. The choice not to conceive, while ovulating, results in the death of that living human cell. Basic biology. Why is that not also considered abortion?
One ‘simple’ rule that sometimes causes confusion is the rule that the King cannot move into check, that is onto a square on which he could be captured by a piece of the opposite color. A result of this rule is that a king cannot capture the king of the opposite color, because for that to happen the king to be captured would have to have moved into check. A king can capture any piece of the opposite color on any adjacent square, so long as he does not move into check by doing so. I have known people to say that because a king cannot capture another king (a result of the rule, not the rule itself), it is possible for kings to occupy adjacent squares.