How are you supposed to not lose this???

How are you supposed to not lose this???

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Both are on equal ground aren't they? How are you supposed to lose that?

1.e5 dxe5
2.Kc1 Kd4
3.Kd2=

Black wins. How is this a question? White can't win this.

Black King DR, Black King R. Literally regardless of any moves white makes, that pawn is getting taken, then all black needs to do is prevent the white king from going up or right, then just pin it with the pawn and king.

that's nothing. try this.

are those pawns, black wins

You could reach a stalemate, which for some reason means draw or black loses.

How would you even end up in this position.

castle take queen
other castle go left
checkmate??

Whaut

Or, you know:
WQueen goes up.
BKing goes down.
WCastle goes left.
Check mate.

wow
you might be a retard

...

easy

1. ra1 Qxa1
2. rh8++

>there is a chess rule that a stalement means black must lose

I would pick a draw over shit like that.

Draw unless idiots are playing. So ask /tg/

wqueen goes right
black does whatever literally doesn't matter
either remaining castle moves fully north for checkmate

no because black queen takes white castle

BKing to c6 then. That's not mate. M8. Or Black queen goes to A1 to take the rook. You bad bruh.

This is wrong, castle taking the queen can result in a stalemate because of the black pawn recapturing and promoting to queen. If black recaptures, game ends in a draw. White can probably still win, but would have to fight.

1. rg1
2. black queen takes one of the rooks
3. remaining rook mates with either rh8 or ra1

Hell no.

Is it the chess move where you switch your king and castle?

I have absolutely no idea how chess works to be honest but I heard that there was a move like that where you could do the ol' switcheroo.

2...Qxh8
and then you lose

It's a draw, moron. Just try and win with black.

>play Chessmaster a long time ago
>literally could never checkmate anyone
>always a stalemate, even when winning by a huge margin
i don't understand how to finish a game. even the 11 year old girl AI level was able to stalemate me

I dont actually play chess and forgot about the recapture thing, where do recaptured pieces go?

Not quite. After white queen goes right black can move queen to c1 to take rook, then even if the remaining rook is moved up the queen can be moved to block. It won't stop the checkmate, but it will make it longer than 2 moves.

white had a pawn on g7 and took something on h8 and turned the pawn into a rook

answer

This one becomes a lot clearer when you realize White's on Black's side. That's how it tricks you.

>it is not given which side of the board is white

I already knew this riddle and the explanation is bull shit. It is the custom to always show chess boards from white's perspective.

someone make a lichess lobby already

Wrong. God you guys are bad at chess.
Here's what happens in your strategy:

1. Qd7 Qxh2
2. Rc8+ Qb8

That's not checkmate, and if black ever gains tempo, which he will because white has to advance his king to secure the checkmate, black promotes a pawn and its King Queen on both sides.

Rock from C1 to B1
Black Queen takes either Rock
Rock from B1 ro B8 or Rock from H2 to H8

I didnt find an actual mate in 2 that black can't delay.

Both moves would have to be checks or black queen can insert a check to delay the mate.

you can probably get a draw
1. Kc2, Kd4
2. Kd2, Kxe4
3. Kc3 -> annoying fiddling for black to keep the pawn alive/not end up in a repetition

Chess puzzles aren't chess games. It just needs to be a possible configuration of the board, and sometimes not even

Two players seeking to set this puzzle up could reach this configuration in real game if they cooperated

>rock

anyway, those are mate in 3 not mate in 2, because the queen can end up blocking your check in either of those scenarios

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Chessboard is upside down. A white pawn captured the corner square and promoted to rook?

Yeah but given the context the guys who found the board couldn't have known which side was which (without solving the riddle anyway).

IVE GOT IT

bottom rook to a1
queen takes bottom rook
remaining rook moves north for checkm8

this is the only feasible answer

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there is some trick to getting a draw in a king+pawn vs king ending, but I can't remember what it is.

>queen takes remaining rook

Queen moves along diagonal to take other rook. This failed attempt at a solution has already been posted ITT.

fuck yall im goin to bed

White plays mass calcify and wins. Stop pretending you're hot shit.

this is the answer

if the promoted unit is in the same square then white still wins.
rook takes queen
pawn takes rook and promotes
other rook takes promoted pawn
king cant move
rook moves left
checkmate

I think you can promote whenever the king is in front of your pawn and it's not a rook pawn though?

Rook, bishop, or knight? No you can't choose queen.

The queen can then capture the second rook

are you fucking retarded? how is the pawn going to reach the last row if the king is in front of it

if the queen doesn't take either rook it'll be a 3 turn mate though

rook is best of those 3, but if you are talking about pawn promotions there is no reason to pick rook or bishop over queen, and then there are EXTREME corner cases where you might want a knight

It's not a mate in 2 but in this situation can't the white queen move to c8, then the black king has to move to a7, use one of your rooks to take the black queen, the black pawn can't do much (at most take a rook), then you have a rook queen and king left to mate.

taking a rook is the only move black can make though

Black king just stays alongside the pawn while pushing. Once Black King gets to 2nd rank, you can just keep pushing the pawn.

The white king has to wiggle back and forth and can't be in the way forever.

oh shit you're right

What would that accomplish?
... d5
(any), d4
(any), d3
(any), Ke3
(any), Ke2
(any), d2
(and), d1 promote

The only possibility for white is if it manages to put their king in d1 while the black pawn is on d2 AND the black king is on d3, producing a stalemate. Any other situation will resolve in the pawn being promoted, which will result in white ultimately being cornered.

It is mate in 2
see

Stabs the king, and usurps the throne. What backwards ass variants are you running?

why didn't black take the queen AHHHHH

if white knows end games properly, he will force a draw where the white king is on the last row with pawn in front and king behind pawn

Wrong
1.Kc2 Kd4
2.Kd2 Kxe4
3.Ke2 d5
4.Kd2 Kd4 0-1
(For example 5.Kc2 Ke3 and the pawn can safely advance)
As I said, the only solution is this:

honestly that wouldnt have been as good as you probably think

But black king is already ahead of the black pawn after capturing.
How do you force him backwards when he'll always have a pawn move available?

why not, you always trade rook for queen

>tfw to dumb to solve the captcha

ok 3 min game if you win you get a steam key from me. (I'll post in ingame chat)
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Most riddles are bullshit

>2

>Rxh1
>black does whatever with his pawn
>Ra2 Checkmate

>you always trade rook for queen
Do you play against humans or against AI?

>Rc1xh1
Sorry

it doesnt matter? unless it will put you at a severe positional disadvantage or lead to a mate, I will take a queen for a rook any day of the week

if pawn promotes on g1 it is mate in 3 rather than 2

Did you post it? Because you lost faggot

Hows that a draw though?

Why does the pawn being on e instead of d change anything?

>It doesnt matter?
So you've never played against a human with a pulse. Sup /tg/, see you're still as good at chess as your are at mtg and relationships.

rook g2 takes bishop
black does whatever
rook a1 or a2 depending on black queen location

>Rxh1, gxh1=Q
>Ra1, Qxa1
Good job losing from an imminent checkmate position.

fuck nevermind

classic e4 game, i enjoyed it user

Are you black or white. White has lost

queens on a1 retard

nah we were chatting about the key

guy posted a key
too lazy to post evidence but it was tales from the borderlands

I have played against both, and I don't see the point you are trying to make. in that scenario taking the queen with the rook was clearly the best move.

These players are so bad

>>Rc1xh1
>Sorry
Nice. So because the black pawn is the only piece that could move, it had no choice but to do so, clearing the remaining white rook for mate at a2.

it's one of the better Telltale's games

Rook in c1 not in h2
Rc1xh1 - gxh1=Q
Ra2

>in that scenario
You said it was always a good move dipshit.

it's better than the fucking minecraft one for certain

another once since the user had the first game already
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Why did you go super aggressive with the king so sudden? looks like things were pretty even til then