Questions tagged [checkmate]
Questions relating to checkmating.
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Puzzles where the goal is to avoid being checkmated in x or fewer moves
Is there a name for puzzles where the goal is to avoid being checkmated in x moves?
An example is this puzzle:
[Title "White to play and avoid being mated on or before move 4 (there is a unique ...
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Phase 1 of Knight Bishop Checkmate
I am working on my basic endgames and I am aware that knowing the Knight and Bishop Mate is unlikely to come up anytime soon, but I still want to know this better.
Once we reach a position like the ...
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Why was this a draw? What move I supposed to play to win?
I'm playing as Black.
Why was this a draw?
What move I supposed to play to win?
[FEN ""]
[StartPly "104"]
1.e4 d6 2. Bb5+ c6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bxc6+ bxc6 5. c4 Nxe4 6. Qa4 Nf6 7. c5 h6 ...
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Do the rules of chess state that a Bishop+King can be sufficient mating material?
A famous recent example of this ending happened last year between Carlsen and Firouzja.
Here, Firouzja time ran out, so Carlsen won
[Title "Alireza Firouzja-Magnus Carlsen, World Blitz Championship,...
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Why was this stalemate?
I'm new to chess and I don't have much knowledge. But I was playing a game as Black, and I was up by a lot of material and played Nxc4 to capture White's last bishop. The game ended in a stalemate, ...
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Is this a chess variant? Chess without taking pieces!
I just noticed a special style of playing chess in some of the top games in chess.com; A chess without taking pieces:
The whole game here:
[FEN ""]
[Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "...
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What is the largest n such that discrete forced mate in one through mate in "n" exist?
This is admittedly a bit of an obscure question, so I apologize for the awkward wording of the question. To begin, assume you are playing as White, and that a "forcing move" is any move that ...
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What is the shortest possible way to checkmate your opponent without using a Queen? [duplicate]
I know about the 2 move mate where the 2 side pawns move up and the Queen comes in and delivers a swift checkmate, but what if the Queen was not being used, or wasn't on the board in the first place?
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Is there any position where giving checkmate by En Passant is a brilliant move on Chess.com?
I have seen many en passant checkmates, but I have never seen one that was a brilliant move.
Is there any position where giving checkmate by en passant is a brilliant move on Chess.com?
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Longest forced win with a rook
What is the longest forced checkmate where the winning side has only a rook? I know this position where White has a mate in 67:
[FEN "2K4k/7p/8/8/8/8/3R4/n7 w - - 0 1"]
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How fast can checkmate occur by just moving the king?
How short can a game be in which (after the first move) one player moves only their king, and yet checkmates their opponent?
This is assuming that the players cooperate, i.e. this is a kind of "...
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Rook vs Bishop on odd-order board
Suppose White has King and Rook and Black has King and Bishop on a square board of odd size (such as 9x9).
Is it generally possible for White to force checkmate?
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What are the commonest checkmating moves in the Lichess (or similar) database?
I'm curious what checkmating move is the most common in the Lichess database? That is, the properly algebraically specified move, for a given color, like "White plays Re8#".
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Why is it not a checkmate?
I am new to chess. I have tried to learn checkmate from the video lesson in chess24 website. There, in one question, it marked my answer wrong and said that it was not checkmate. Can anyone please ...
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Most delaying moves before checkmate
Consider a position where if was player A's turn, they could make a series of moves ("the mating sequence") with forced mate.
However, it is player B's turn, and they can make a series of &...
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