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Gerd Degens wrote on Tue, Feb 21, 2023 08:20 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 02:41 AM:

If the King can be captured, what stops the first player from using his Queen to capture the King and winning right away?

Winning in Borderline is like winning in classical chess. If the king is in check and cannot move away from it or use a piece of its own to protect it, it is checkmate and the game is over. If the situation is not checkmate, it is in the player's interest to move the king out of check (or use another piece to protect it), otherwise it will be captured on the opponent's next move and the game will be lost.

In Borderline, the king can be moved instead of one of your own pieces. It is not possible to move the king into your own check; such a move is not legal. The king can only be moved into check by another piece, not by a move of the king.

If the king is in check and could only be "saved" by a move into its own check - which is not possible/legal - then the player obliged to move has lost.
(here I have adapted my description again).
 


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