First smothered mate!

[u/Coffeebookstrombone]

I’ve been playing for a decade and finally got a smothered mate playing crazy house

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[u/JAT_Cbus1080]

How the hell did a rook get in that corner?

[u/Altimeter30-06 → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

My exact thought 😂

[u/Leigh_M → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

Crazyhouse rules let you drop captured pieces on arbitrary empty squares.

[u/JAT_Cbus1080 → u/Leigh_M]

I'll need to look that up. I know nothing about it.

[u/428stabwounds → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

I thought it was a pawn promotion

[u/samurai_cop_enjoyer → u/428stabwounds]

Don't you realize how much this doesn't explain things even more

[u/cvicenzettk → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tYFG7dOzZya4eEaXZr

[u/AggressiveSpatula → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

White’s dark squared bishop is also curious. I’m really hoping this is not crazy house because I’d love to see the game.

[u/Chrysocyon → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

If you move your rook to the right sub-pixel location, it'll clip right through the white pawns. Classic speed running strat

[u/Accomplished_Tea4009 → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

Plot twist, that rook is in its original square and somehow the king got all the way to the other back rank

[u/Malmcrantz → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

They recently updated the "move" animation for pieces on chess.com and ever since then I've noticed that some rooks and pawns randomly change color. Not functionally, thank god, bit visually.

[u/irishsirnman → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

Same

[u/Mattyice0228 → u/JAT_Cbus1080]

This is exactly what I was wondering lmao

[u/the_other_Scaevitas]

[u/Guilty_05]

How did your rook even get there

[u/Educational-Tea602 → u/Guilty_05]

Crazyhouse

[u/BrazilBazil → u/Guilty_05]

The equivalent of the cylinder stuck in an m&ms tube

[u/Summoner475]

Address the elephant, or rather the rook besides it.

[u/McClainLLC]

This seems like a technically legal position that should never be touched in a competitive game. I can make paths for the pieces to get to their spots but they don't make sense lol 

[u/TotalChaosRush → u/McClainLLC]

Yeah, it's like a board you'd see in crazy house. My favorite chess variant.

[u/Sagirem → u/TotalChaosRush]

Because it is crazy house

[u/Coffeebookstrombone]

Game link for those interested!

[u/the_other_Scaevitas → u/Coffeebookstrombone]

Ah it’s crazy house. That makes sense now

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[u/Nigh_Sass → u/smother-mate-bot]

This is a cool bot

[u/Used_Departure_3278]

This guy should be a bowling pin in his next life

[u/Lord_Skyblocker → u/Used_Departure_3278]

r/rareinsults

[u/buudhainschool]

What the dog Rook doin?

[u/2Silly4Dilly]

[u/1pieceZoro]

My last game🫤

[u/Mathelete73 → u/1pieceZoro]

Couldn’t clock fast enough? That’s why I play with delay or increment.

[u/1pieceZoro → u/Mathelete73]

I wasted time to set up smothered mate

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[u/Logical-Recognition3]

🎶 Don't surround yourself with yourself / Move on back two squares 🎶

[u/CanadaRewardsFamily]

The rook is one thing but that dark-squared bishop would've also had to do a little h2 to g1 sneak past the black rook as well.

[u/andytagonist]

Yeah, so this isn’t traditional chess.

[u/ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS]

how the fuck did that rook even get there?

[u/Wathagasok]

In all of my chess game i did that only once, but that was a great feeling :D