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[-] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 28 points 12 hours 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.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 points 10 hours ago

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

[-] jedibob5@lemmy.world 47 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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!

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 23 points 13 hours ago

Damn you, FIDE.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Calvin would have made a great Chess player.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 23 points 15 hours ago

My ex-wife showed me this gambit.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

Blue team has joined the game.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 38 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago

Instead pay more to hire a less experienced queen externally.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 8 points 15 hours ago

Don’t want them to get any ideas

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 12 hours ago

Would be cool if that teleported your king ngl

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours 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

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] airbussy@lemmy.one 2 points 15 hours ago

Antichess players love this move

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