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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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 25 points 1 month ago

My ex-wife showed me this gambit.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Blue team has joined the game.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Calvin would have made a great Chess player.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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.world 29 points 1 month ago

Damn you, FIDE.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Instead pay more to hire a less experienced queen externally.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago

Don’t want them to get any ideas

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month 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

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Would be cool if that teleported your king ngl

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Antichess players love this move