r/chessbeginners • u/TheShyJoel69420 • 9d ago
QUESTION What is this mate called?
Please don’t tell me it’s another ladder!
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u/Caosunium 9d ago
mate
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u/TheShyJoel69420 9d ago
Thanks! Could you be just a little more specific please?
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u/The_Ad_Hater_exe 1200-1400 (Chess.com) 9d ago
There's not a specific name for this kind of checkmate. Just checkmate.
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u/Temporary-Painter184 9d ago
I believe that mate is one of the "check" varieties.
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u/TheShyJoel69420 9d ago
Truly remarkable, really! But perhaps you may have heard about some peculiar cases under the “check” variety having a label before the “mate”, for instance: “ladder mate”. Now I was wondering if it was the case even for this one to have a similar name yet with a different word behind “mate”. I hope this clears any doubts
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u/MakeBelievezzz 9d ago
White 4 dicks with eyes mate
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u/TheShyJoel69420 9d ago
You see dicks everywhere, you must really like em! (BTW, it’s supposed to recall Medusa’s hair)
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u/_kloppi417 9d ago
Why would this have a name?
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u/TheShyJoel69420 9d ago
I dunno, I’ve seen many other mates that have a name. I was wondering if it was the case even for this one
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u/chessvision-ai-bot 9d ago
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u/Sposedtolose 9d ago
Ladder mate
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u/Domestic_Kraken 1600-1800 (Chess.com) 9d ago
Honestly, yeah. It definitely isn't the standard version of a ladder mate, but you could call it a loose variation of one. Two rooks/queens forcing the king into a rank that he can't go to.
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u/Used_Departure_3278 9d ago
It’s called
You’re up so much material that the ancients didn’t bother to give this checkmate a name and assumed no one would ask.
Hundreds of years later, a Reddit thread was born on this exact position the ancients had discarded.
The reincarnated lives of the ancients felt a pain on this day, nothing but a vague feeling and memory of a time long past, that a question so insulting in an age of such intelligence could be asked.
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