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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 !! :?
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A King and Rook vs. King is sufficient.
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Post 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.
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Played Brian Ealey once he beat 40 of us at once!
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Post 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.
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Post by Stevie S »

Be careful not to stalemate him though. :o ops:
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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.
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Post 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!
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Post 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 .
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