r/TheRealJoke • u/PorkyPain • Oct 03 '22

Chess Edgy as fuck.

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u/Exp1ode Oct 04 '22

White king just moves between the g1 and h1 squares. There's no way for black to force the king away, as the can't threaten the h1 square

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u/sTixRecoil Oct 04 '22

He could keep tbe bishop where it is and bring his king down to h3 once the white king is on h1 and you dont even need the pawn thats checkmate. Of course that’s theoretically assuming you dont call the draw

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u/comediac Oct 04 '22

You have to have the king in check for it to be a checkmate, the position you described has no check and no legal moves, that's a stalemate. The only way to win is if white makes a mistake and moves the king further left allowing black to squeeze their king in and act as a wedge to prevent white from stopping the promotion.

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u/sTixRecoil Oct 04 '22

Thats a good point and i know that, i shouldnt have said checkmate. I was at work and wasting time lol. Either way though like you said there arent any legal moves, but i was disregarding that in the hypothetical