I’ve talked about this elsewhere, but there is a moment in the anime Code Geass that completely destroyed my carefully-cultivated suspension of disbelief — the chess game between Zero and Schneizel.

In a supposedly daring move, Schneizel puts the pressure on Zero by moving his king adjacent to Zero’s, sending gasps throughout the audience and putting Zero in a quandary that is fortunately interrupted by external events.

Except, of course, that it’s idiotic (not to mention illegal) to put your king next to your opponent’s king because you would place your OWN king in check. Nobody bothers to tell him this because a) No one wants to piss off the Second Prince and b) No one in the audience (or in CLAMP, apparently) actually knows how to play chess.

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