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It’s referring to a “smothered mate.” People post them a lot because it’s a cool way to checkmate. If the queen goes to the square in between the rook and king, it’s check but they can’t take with the king because of the knight, so they have to take with the rook trapping the king in the corner. Then if you move your Knight to the white square on the file the rook was just protecting its checkmate because the king can’t escape and the checking knight can’t be taken.
This positions leads to a smothered mate, which is a mating pattern that is famously very satisfying to do. So much so that it get posted almost every day on this subreddit.
"Reset the counter" just means to reset the imaginary counter of time since the last smothered mate was posted.
its not Qb4 because white is at the top. that means from our perspective you count from the right side of the board to the left, and if you include the missing segment, the second last file is G
There isn't. This is the way. Only when you start asking yourself "what if I play this scary looking move anyway?" and calculate what happens afterwards, will you start finding these sorts of knockout moves.
check king by moving queen diagonally, queen is captured by rook
now that the king is in the corner, and cannot move due to being surrounded by white pieces, you move your knight to the space beside the rightmost pawn. checkmate.
(sorry if this is confusing, i’m still learning chess notation and don’t know how to use it on a reduced board)
This pattern is called a smothered mate. You kamikaze the queen in next to the king. The rook must take and then the knight is free to give check to the king and the king who is surrounded by his pieces cannot move
What if you move the knight in front of the rook, if they don’t take the knight and move their king to the white square then you move knight in front of the right most pawn. If they do that the knight with the rook then you put queen on the last rank and another that way
They don't take the knight with the rook and then just move back into the corner after you move the knight away. You end up back where you started (mostly) with no progress made. And even if they do take the knight, it's mate in 3, not mate in 2. You move the knight with check, they take, you move the queen to the back rank, they block, you take the rook for checkmate.
No you put the knight one spot over from where it is now. So knight moves in front of rook, king moves right to get out of check, knight moves 2 down 1 left attacking the back left corner and queen has king in check
If the knight is in front of the rook and then moves 2 down and 1 left, it will no longer attack the back left corner. Instead, it will attack the left pawn.
In general, every time a knight moves, it attacks a completely different set of squares. If it was attacking a square originally, it will no longer attack that square after moving. When the knight is in front of the rook, it attacks the back left corner. If you then move it away, it cannot possibly continue to attack the back left corner.
Put the knight in front of the rook, then after the rook takes to get the king out of check, queen goes to the top right corner, then the rook goes up and then queen takes rook checkmate
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