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The FIDE Laws Of Chess. The official rules of Chess from the World Chess Federation.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Tony is correct in that to approximated FIDE rules, when an illegal move is made in Game Courier that piece should be considered as 'touched' and would have to be moved, if it could make a legal move. A Game Courier that does not allow illegal moves is actually more kind than is FIDE. For example, in one of my face-to-face over-the-board games I placed a player's King in 'Check.' I announced check (but in official USCF tournament games such an announcement is not required and often not made). My opponent did not hear me and he then moved his Queen (but left his King in check.) Under the 'touch rule' he still had to move his Queen, if possible. So in this case he had to block the check with his Queen... and he lost his Queen as a result. A very harsh payment.