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Why doesn't anyone ever promote to king? Are we stupid? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz

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[–] 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?!?