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[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago

Because that activates a royal coup, where the new king plus half of your pieces turn a third color on the board

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

My ex-wife showed me this gambit.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Blue team has joined the game.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Calvin would have made a great Chess player.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't fall for it, it's a classic blunder! Promoting to king makes it twice as easy to get checkmated! Article 1, section 2 of the FIDE Laws of Chess, states:

The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move. The player who achieves this goal is said to have ‘checkmated’ the opponent’s king and to have won the game.

Note that it specifies "king" and not "kings" - the opponent only has to checkmate one of them to win!

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Damn you, FIDE.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

And then a fork of the two kings wins the game, unless you can take the forking piece.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Classic blunder? What about getting involved in a land war in Asia?!?

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

I never promote the pawn because I am a bad employer.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Instead pay more to hire a less experienced queen externally.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I offered to pay in exposure since I plan to leave her very exposed. Amidoinitright.jpg

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Don’t want them to get any ideas

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Sorry you can't promote into a king. Best you can do is a prime minister that slowly takes away the kings power of the course of a 100 moves until the king is purely ceremonial and gets removed if it makes any move. the prime minister is a slow moving piece that has to change direction every 4 moves and if it can move to protect another piece it must do so or be demoted back to a pawn the next move.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I think once you achieve constitutional monarchy it counts as democracy and means you only lose the game if all your pieces die.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Checking two kings at the same time is hard af. Practically a winning move

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Checkmate is when a king has no way to escape from a check.

  • US Chess Foundation

When A king

A double check is game over unless the piece checking both can be captured

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Would be cool if that teleported your king ngl

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Check mate the opponent by converting all your pieces to king and surrounding theirs with a 1 tile buffer around it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Antichess players love this move

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