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Chess
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:04 pm
by mjd
If you have Rook, Bishop, and King Vs King, can you get a checkmate?
Just spent about 15 minutes chasing the king around, and can't get it... Damn !!
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:18 pm
by blackmogu
A King and Rook vs. King is sufficient.
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:37 pm
by quizard
You can force mate against a lone king with rook, or two bishops or a knight and bishop. You can't force it with two knights.
What you have to do with these mating nets is just keep reducing the squares availble to the enemy king and force it into a corner (being careful not stalemate). Don't keep giving check.
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:53 pm
by betchrider
Played Brian Ealey once he beat 40 of us at once!
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:09 pm
by Stevie S
It is all about cutting off each rank, file and square of the opposition king. It's like bully boy tactics, you have to gang up on the king and force him to the corner of the board or at least close.
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:11 pm
by Stevie S
Be careful not to stalemate him though.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:13 pm
by quizard
betchrider wrote:Played Brian Ealey once he beat 40 of us at once!
Really? He didn't do anything else to you did he LOL? He did a runner while on police bail while being investigated for offences against boys in the early 1990s. He has never been seen since.
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:18 pm
by betchrider
quizard wrote:betchrider wrote:Played Brian Ealey once he beat 40 of us at once!
Really? He didn't do anything else to you did he LOL? He did a runner while on police bail while being investigated for offences against boys in the early 1990s. He has never been seen since.
Probs played him in about 84 as I was still in middle school then! Nobody beat him though!
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:02 am
by mr lugsy
In my limited experience of chess ,it's very doubtful you'd be left with just 2 knights and a king anyway.
When I play they are my kamikazes ,I just use them to try and snare more valuable pieces,hopefully it being a guaranteed loss of one or another piece for the opponent, I'd try and take without loss to start with, but if not I'm not fussed .