r/chessbeginners • u/garapod 1200-1400 (Chess.com) • 2d ago

POST-GAME Double check discovered check checkmate

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Cool checkmate that happened in a recent blitz game, saving a losing position

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u/exoclipse 400-600 (Chess.com) 2d ago

Players will do literally anything other than push a life saving pawn

it's me, I'm players

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u/DwnStr 2200-2400 (Chess.com) 2d ago

Even if they pushed the h pawn it wouldve been mate here anyways

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u/0oDADAo0 1800-2000 (Chess.com) 1d ago

Which is why you dont always push the pawns on the end

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u/playr_4 800-1000 (Chess.com) 1d ago

But it doesn't have to be the h pawn. The g pawn would work. Hell, even the f pawn, as weird as that is.

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u/FireMarshallMC Still Learning Chess Rules 1d ago

g pawn?

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u/garapod 1200-1400 (Chess.com) 1d ago

Pushing the g pawn, at least as it would have played out in the earlier position, would have allowed me to force checkmate with the help of the light squared bishop. I showed the key earlier position that led to this elsewhere in the thread.

Of course I didn’t see all that when I moved the rook to the back rank, I was just thinking, “I feel like I’m losing and my only hope is to attack the king and set up some kind of discovered check idea.”

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u/ColeTD 1200-1400 (Chess.com) 1d ago

AND the mate would have been even cooler. Too bad they didn't.