Chess: King Sacrifice (illegal move) Vidit vs Hikaru Nakamura

| Tata Steel India Blitz 2019 | GM Vidit Gujrathi makes an illegal move!

When you begin your chess journey, you are taught the rules of chess. While learning the rules, you tend to make illegal moves. But as time passes, you become stronger, well versed with the rules and moving the pieces becomes very natural, intuitive and almost a part of you.

When a GM plays chess it is almost impossible to think that he would make an illegal move. Yet at the Tata Steel Chess India 2019 Blitz GM Vidit Gujrathi made an illegal move! Vidit is not just a GM, but in fact a super GM with a live blitz rating of 2756!

Can a king take a king in chess?
No, a king can’t take a king in chess because whenever a king tries to approach near another king, the first king gets into check which is illegal. As per the standard rules, it is not allowed to make a move that puts the king in check.

Wtf are they playing at a hospital, everyone’s coughing like they got TB

“A true king fights with his army, not behind them”