160
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kanda@reddthat.com to c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 59 points 1 year ago

The official answer is that you cannot promote a pawn to a king, so this situation would never arise. However, this is Anarchy Chess, so let's set that aside.

If this situation did happen, and it is Black's turn, it is not checkmate, because Black's bishop takes the queen. It could not be White's turn, because there is no way to arrive at this board state on Black's turn without one or both kings being in check at the beginning of the turn, and so Black's move would have needed to remove their king from check.

Therefore, this board state is not checkmate.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 45 points 1 year ago

The bishop is on strike as modern religious conditions makes his day-to-day services auxiliary and thus he will not attack until he gets paid

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

One of the kings could still pay the bishop, so still not checkmate.

[-] kittehx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Except that the bishop won't actually receive the funds until the next business day, which would be too late. Now of course this wouldn't be an issue if the payment could be made in cash, but due to the distance between the bishop and the kings, the only option is an electronic transfer.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since it's anarchychess the bishop rejects their Mastercard, but it would accept Bitcoin. However the kings lost their Bitcoin to a scammer the week before.

[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

They could, but you have to think about the bottom line and how it would affect the shareholders

this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
160 points (96.0% liked)

AnarchyChess

5213 readers
144 users here now

Holy hell

Other chess communities:
!Chess@lemmy.ml
!chessbeginners@sh.itjust.works

Matrix space

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS