Indeed I can't remember why I wrote this detail in the succession rule of Tamerlane II: "The checking player is free to take or not the new Prince." Originally I wanted a succession as you describe it, the King disapears and the Prince becomes King. Probably, I was troubled by coding reasons. In chess a piece disapears when it is replaced by its conqueror. Maybe I had made a bad choice, maybe I should have said the taking the "new Prince" is compulsory. Well, in most cases it is what happens, the checkmated King is really taken otherwise the attacking player is letting a new Prince that could become a King again, which is not suitable.
In the rule as you see it Bob, I understand that the checkmated King is removed but no attacking piece is moving on its square. Imagine White King is checkmated and that, in checkmating, Black is eating a piece. As he also removes the white King, Black is actually taking 2 pieces in a single move. That was probably my problem. This is why, I said that the White King is becoming a White Prince.
Indeed I can't remember why I wrote this detail in the succession rule of Tamerlane II: "The checking player is free to take or not the new Prince." Originally I wanted a succession as you describe it, the King disapears and the Prince becomes King. Probably, I was troubled by coding reasons. In chess a piece disapears when it is replaced by its conqueror. Maybe I had made a bad choice, maybe I should have said the taking the "new Prince" is compulsory. Well, in most cases it is what happens, the checkmated King is really taken otherwise the attacking player is letting a new Prince that could become a King again, which is not suitable.
In the rule as you see it Bob, I understand that the checkmated King is removed but no attacking piece is moving on its square. Imagine White King is checkmated and that, in checkmating, Black is eating a piece. As he also removes the white King, Black is actually taking 2 pieces in a single move. That was probably my problem. This is why, I said that the White King is becoming a White Prince.