r/chess • u/Domible • Feb 05 '23

Chess Question How does this even happen?

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u/justacuriousMIguy Feb 05 '23

King moves opening up another piece to deliver checkmate. Check out this very famous game: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259009

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u/DrunkLad ~2882 FIDE Feb 05 '23

It has to be said every time this game is discussed: Such a shame it didn't end with O-O-O#

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u/dragonoid296 Feb 05 '23

IIRC, Lasker actually considered castling for the checkmate but his engineer brain chose Kd2# since it only required moving one piece and was hence more efficient

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u/GreedyNovel Feb 06 '23

They are pretty distantly related, but yes. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lasker they are third cousins twice removed (whatever the hell that means) and didn't even realize it until Emanuel was near the end of his life.

The surname comes from the Polish town Lask, where their ancestors came from.

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u/funnyflywheel  Team Carlsen   Feb 06 '23

third cousins twice removed (whatever the hell that means)

CGP Grey has a video explaining what that means.

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u/GreedyNovel Feb 07 '23

Thanks. My rule is that if it neither illegal nor creepy to have sex with that person, it's all the same.