Why can't a king capture a queen?

Hello,

I don't understand why a king can't capture a queen, since it'd be... just normal as a matter of fact!

I haven't found anything about it on the internet, so if anyone has the answer, thank you!

I mean if the queen is nearby on a square just aside from the king, any other piece can attack but not the king. 

A king can capture a queen the same way it can capture any other piece.

Unless the queen is defended, the king can capture it.

If the queen is defended by some other piece or a pawn, king can't capture it, as that would put the king in check, so it is an illegal move.

If you are asking because this game:

You couldn't capture the queen with your king because the pawn is protecting the queen. 

Kxb3 is illegal as your king would end up in check (because of a pawn on a2).

Indeed, it seemed me that the game was preventing me to do so; I haven't noticed that the queen was defended.

Thank you!

Yes it was, I actually edited my post because I've found the game in question.

You're welcome. And remember, any other piece would be able to capture it in that situation, but not the king, because your king would end up in check after your move, which makes it an illegal move.

I edited mine as well haha, yes I can see it now.

Have a nice day, and thanks for the help!

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Chess is complex.

Pieces capture, not eat.

Probably not native language. Please be kind. Otherwise the title did look NSFW.

he's french, and probably isn't that great at english. cut him some slack.

Same to you, @Lagomorph

@idilis, I agree

The king can eat (take, capture) a queen (or any other piece that's not a king).

However, no piece can capture a king, only threaten to capture. When there's no escape, it's checkmate, but the king is never captured, the game ends with the threat but never actually capturing the king.

(Except in Washington Square park rules (or other street chess rules) in which if you don't realize you are under check, they take your king and you lose).

in blitz or bullet otb you may take the king.

First off, chess is for everyone, and if you're talking about my "mental age", I think I'm more than perfectly aged to play chess. However, according to your tellings, there's no doubt that lots of time were needed to you in order to discover that chess is a game.

Furthermore, I'd like to remind you that it's not because most of online forums are in english that you're allowed to criticize in an immature way (I have no "mental illness", neither do you). I'm not sure that you'd be able to speak in french as I do. Nevertheless, I will never neither criticize someone because he hasn't a good level, nor tell someone he's a child or he has to go to an asylum for the only reason that he's not as good as me in my native language.

Finally, chess uses specific terms - in french, we can say take ("prendre") or eat ("manger"), hence my use of that verb - that I don't know exactly in english at this time (but I'm eager to learn them!), so yes, I may use some weird/strange words for you. Feel free to correct me though! 

Anyway, thanks for the explanation,  and sorry for my tellings that have led to some misunderstanding!

Btw, to avoid any confusion, I've edited the name and the topic of thiis post.

You don't have to explain yourself. Some people should learn to respect others a bit, and that all of us were beginners at some point. As for eat, for instance in my language "eat" is a perfectly acceptable alternative for take (regarding chess terminology, of course not in a general conversation), so I imagine several other languages are like that as well.

This is why some people are discouraged from writing here.

I can answer this:

King can never activly capture a queen, as in chasing her or run into her, because any move a king makes as he aproach opposing queen will put him in check when he is beside her. A King can never make a move that activly places him in check, the opponont need to make a move before that happens. Remember a Queen can move like the king, but has the power of a tower and a runner combined can move vertically, horisontally and diagonals, as long as there is no pieces blocking she may move as far as the board allows her. So Logically speaking, King cant really chase a queen down by himself. But he can capture a queen that is checking him if that queen is not defended and right next to the king. So the only way a queen can be captured by a King is when the queen checks the king, or a pawn promotes to a queen next to a king without being defended, which also checks the king during the end of promotion.

The King can capture a Queen easily.

Let's say black king is at e5, and white queen is at h1. And it's white's turn. Thus, we can have:

1.Qe4+ Kxe4

As simple as that.

A king can't attack a queen. He has to wait until she creeps too near.

im sueing u