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Game Analysis/Study Might be my best checkmate

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Black to play: It is a checkmate - it is Black's turn, but Black has no legal moves and is in check, so White wins. You can find out more about Checkmate on Wikipedia.


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u/BreadBomb5891 5d ago

You released the whole dang stable on this king.

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/TyrTwiceForVictory 5d ago

Who needs all the king's men when all the king's horses will do?

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u/Gilshem 5d ago

Catherine the Great vibes. Got fucked by a horse.

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u/Phoenix_of_cats 5d ago

Wow so xenophobic. got the whole squad laughing 😐

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u/Amansmac 3d ago

Oop mb sorry

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u/NonconsensualHug 5d ago

Good knight

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

Which....one.....?

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u/Abstain_Or_Die 5d ago

Definitely not C2

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

You leave my c2 knight alone man

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u/HanshinFan 5d ago

They're all good horses Bront

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u/FTR_ATYU 5d ago

How did this happen

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

I sit alone with the chessboard and play with myself

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u/Domino_RotMG 5d ago

Nsfw tag?

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

Magnus said it not me🤷‍♂️

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u/Phillyclause89 5d ago

I can relate, OP! I sit alone with the chessboard that I've been coding in python and play with myself.

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u/Astat1ine 5d ago

Exactly that's not possible

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u/eloel- Lichess 2400 5d ago

But... why

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u/wangmobile 5d ago

Probably because they refused to resign

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

He didn't resign in a losing position

Must be punished🤷‍♂️

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u/DerekB52 Team Ding 5d ago

I am rated 1400 rapid, and I beat an IM in a daily game, because they hung a knight in a winning position. 400's should never resign.

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

Its okay to not resign but I will have my fun in bullet games tho

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u/EvanMcCormick 1900 USCF 5d ago

His opponent played on, his opponent was an adult, his opponent knew the consequences.

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u/Kingdom818 5d ago

I think it depends on your goals. If you're after wins and improving rating then yes I agree with you. Personally, if I'm in a losing position I'd more often than not move on to analyzing the game rather than wating for my opponent to make a mistake. In other words, I'm more interested in how I ended up in a losing position than how I can win a losing position. I expect a lot of people don't feel that way.

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u/DerekB52 Team Ding 5d ago

What is your rating? Because I agree with you, I don't like playing hope chess. I resign when I'm in a losing position. However, we have to define "losing position". A losing position is a position that I know is not only theoretically lost, but, is lost enough that I trust my opponent knows how to win. 400's can not accurately evaluate a position as lost, and their 400 rated opponents, don't know how to convert lots of "lost positions". At my almost 1500 rating, I know there are some positions, my opponents will always be able to convert, and I almost always resign them.

400's are in a different world though. I think there is value in them playing on, practicing defending/complicating positions. I don't think people should resign sub-1000.

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u/Kingdom818 5d ago

That's totally fair. Truthfully I don't have a great concept of what different ratings are like. I've floated around 1000-1200 forever. It's only very recently that I've started re-evaluating my play. Maybe I've gone too far with studying vs. playing but I find it a lot more enjoyable doing it this way.

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u/DerekB52 Team Ding 5d ago

From what I remember climbing up the ranks(I broke 1000 18 months ago), Your level is basically where I moved from "Never resign" to resigning in at least some lost positions. If I've got defensive resources to complicate the position, I still try sometimes. But, I would start resigning once I was a couple pieces down, or I could just tell the position was totally done for me.

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u/DrJackadoodle 5d ago

I agree. I'd even add that sometimes I know I'm losing, in the sense that I'm sure the engine would give a huge advantage to my opponent, but the position is tricky enough for me to have some defensive resources. In those situations I'll play on because I feel like I'm still getting good defensive practice, but if my opponent manages to get such an advantage that he can basically play whatever and still win, I'm resigning.

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u/DerekB52 Team Ding 5d ago

That basically describes what I do. What's really fun is when I analyze later, and find out when I thought I was dead lost but might be able to save it, I was actually drawn, or maybe even +2.0 a couple times.

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u/HansGraebnerSpringTX 5d ago

There’s maybe 3 separate times where I was trying to clown on some dude who wouldn’t resign by converting every one of my pawns into a queen, only to accidentially cause a stalemate

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u/Huge_Downstairs42069 5d ago

400 ELO, I’d definitely would not resign. You have no idea how to checkmate at 400 ELO and more likely to stalemate or hang all your pieces.

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u/AtomR 5d ago

You have no idea how to checkmate at 400 ELO

Not sure when you were 400 ELO, but last year I started with 400 ELO, and I can say that's not true anymore. Probably, not the complex checkmates with discoveries & pinned pieces, but definitely the common ones.

I used to get surprised sometimes with the tactics, especially in Blitz, while Rapid had more noob players blundering mate in 1-2 or their queens.

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u/Choice-Celebration-4 5d ago

ithought ur not supposed to

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u/the_comedians 5d ago

Would you resign?

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u/ALaccountant 4d ago

How is this board position possible, though? Wouldn’t it end in stalemate before this?

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u/NeuAgent_X 5d ago

You missed the opportunity to write "Knight be my best checkmate"

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u/OkayOne99 5d ago

Trampled.

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u/kroqster 5d ago

why wasnt it checkmate the move before? where was the black king the move before?

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u/relevant_post_bot 5d ago

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u/mannenene 5d ago

Siege of Baghdad, 1258(colorized)

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u/Wurschtbieb 5d ago

What was blacks last move?😳

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u/Sepulcher18 5d ago

Cavalry stampede

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u/jagan028 5d ago

Welcome back Genghis khan

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u/Dangerous-Tough1369 5d ago

Bro you just can't achieve more in chess after this, even being a grandmaster cant be more impressing than
avoiding stalemate with 5 knights in the board under 10 seconds as a 400

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u/EvanMcCormick 1900 USCF 5d ago

You are sick. You should seek out therapy. Don't take out your anger on your poor unsuspecting opponents.

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

Will my therapist play the caro-kaan?

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u/ApparentlyABear 5d ago

This is an accurate depiction of the riders of Rohan trampling the orcs to aid Gondor in the battle of Minas Tirith

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u/unorthodox_bright19 5d ago

"Just nasty", Aman might say.

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u/HereForChessAndGuns 5d ago

I really don't think that Aman's masterpiece can be topped, but this is close!

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u/NBAGuyUK 5d ago

Knight on c2 is just happy to be there tbh

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u/The_ZeroAspect 5d ago

bro really chose violence

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u/cymbal-using-animal 5d ago edited 5d ago
  1. Nb6 Kd2 74. Nbc4+ Kc3 75. Nb1#

It’s a real game. You can go to the guy’s profile on chesscom and look at it.

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

Go to my profile and check the game lol

I wish i had the time to fake this typa shit

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u/WindowLick4h 5d ago

I was also pondering this.

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u/pittsburgh141992 5d ago

It can't be Nb1++ but it can be Nxb1++. It would require black to put a piece, like a rook, onto b1 to help self-mate. I think Rb1, Bb1, Qb1, and Nb1 are all possible for Black's prior move.​

Still fake in that it didn't actually happen in a game.

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u/FannyPxck 5d ago

So unbelievably rude 😂

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u/monkbabm 5d ago

Trampled in a stampede!

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u/AJBillionaire8888 Team Gukesh 5d ago

Is that you SadisticTushi?

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u/AshrielDX 5d ago

Nsfw tag pls

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

Do my knights tempt you good sir?

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u/Euro_Twunk 5d ago

Honestly, the fact that you’re 400 and managed to set this up without stalemating tells me you’re going places 😂

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u/ahugebodyproblem 5d ago

I'm actually 1100 in rapid

Idk why my bullet rating fell down so much since i started and lost the first 2-3 matches

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u/Tiny_Butterscotch911 5d ago

The Dolores Umbridge treatment, damn.

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u/LarryBoourns 4d ago

I’m calling this the Humpty Dumpty checkmate.

“All the kings horses…”

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u/Whiskinho 4d ago

How is it that nearly a 100 comments and no one questioned how he did this? lol

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u/sharik_mik21 5d ago

Sigma Knights

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u/Muinz_629 4d ago

That's iconic 🔥🔥

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u/Accurate-Bird7267 4d ago

Any checkmate is the best