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[-] Ashelyn 54 points 2 weeks ago

Because that activates a royal coup, where the new king plus half of your pieces turn a third color on the board

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Blue team has joined the game.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Calvin would have made a great Chess player.

[-] jedibob5@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Don't fall for it, it's a classic blunder! Promoting to king makes it twice as easy to get checkmated! Article 1, section 2 of the FIDE Laws of Chess, states:

The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move. The player who achieves this goal is said to have ‘checkmated’ the opponent’s king and to have won the game.

Note that it specifies "king" and not "kings" - the opponent only has to checkmate one of them to win!

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Damn you, FIDE.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

And then a fork of the two kings wins the game, unless you can take the forking piece.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Classic blunder? What about getting involved in a land war in Asia?!?

[-] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 39 points 2 weeks ago

I never promote the pawn because I am a bad employer.

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago

Instead pay more to hire a less experienced queen externally.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I offered to pay in exposure since I plan to leave her very exposed. Amidoinitright.jpg

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t want them to get any ideas

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry you can't promote into a king. Best you can do is a prime minister that slowly takes away the kings power of the course of a 100 moves until the king is purely ceremonial and gets removed if it makes any move. the prime minister is a slow moving piece that has to change direction every 4 moves and if it can move to protect another piece it must do so or be demoted back to a pawn the next move.

[-] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

Candidate Master: Promote to Queen

FIDE Master: Promote to King

International Master: Promote to Knight

GrandMaster: No promotion needed, I already predicted the entire game. You've already been defeated.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Would be cool if that teleported your king ngl

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 2 weeks ago

Checking two kings at the same time is hard af. Practically a winning move

[-] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Checkmate is when a king has no way to escape from a check.

  • US Chess Foundation

When A king

A double check is game over unless the piece checking both can be captured

[-] airbussy@lemmy.one 2 points 2 weeks ago

Antichess players love this move

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