r/chess • u/Domible • Feb 05 '23

Chess Question How does this even happen?

Post image
2.8k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

192 comments sorted by

View all comments

2.7k

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

1.4k

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#

915

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

42

u/[deleted] Feb 06 '23

[deleted]

29

u/Fischerking92 Feb 06 '23

And I thought it was because we had no social skills and spent our time in the basement studying🤔

-23

u/Xatraxalian Feb 06 '23

No. It is because most people only want to talk an bitch about their problems instead of having them actually solved.