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Undefended rook can never be captured · case 05

A lone rook next to the black king is not offered as a capture.

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Case contract

Input: {"wk", "wr", "bk"} squares (black to move). Return the sorted squares the black king may move to: on the board, not adjacent to the white king, and not attacked by the rook along a rank or file (the white king blocks the rook; the black king's origin does not). Capturing the rook is legal when the rook is not adjacent to the white king.

Why this case matters

Endgame tablebase generators and mate detectors depend on exact escape squares.

One recorded failure

Sample boundary fixture

This sample comes from the broken implementation of a controlled reproducer.

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
capture undefended rook	`["d5", "d6", "f5", "f6"]`	`["d5", "d6", "e4", "f5", "f6"]`	Failed

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