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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to AnarchyChess@sopuli.xyz · 19 天前

Why doesn't anyone ever promote to king? Are we stupid?

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Why doesn't anyone ever promote to king? Are we stupid?

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to AnarchyChess@sopuli.xyz · 19 天前
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  • Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 天前

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

    • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      19 天前

      My ex-wife showed me this gambit.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      19 天前

      Blue team has joined the game.

    • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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      19 天前

      Schism!

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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      19 天前

      Calvin would have made a great Chess player.

  • jedibob5@lemmy.world
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    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!

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 天前

      Damn you, FIDE.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      19 天前

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

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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      19 天前

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

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    19 天前

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

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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      19 天前

      Instead pay more to hire a less experienced queen externally.

      • Cort@lemmy.world
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        19 天前

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

    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
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      Don’t want them to get any ideas

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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    Candidate Master: Promote to Queen

    FIDE Master: Promote to King

    International Master: Promote to Knight

    GrandMaster: No promotion needed, I already predicted the entire game. You’ve already been defeated.

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    Checking two kings at the same time is hard af. Practically a winning move

    • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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      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

  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    19 天前

    Would be cool if that teleported your king ngl

  • airbussy@lemmy.one
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    19 天前

    Antichess players love this move

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    19 天前

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

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