It's not a double checkmate, it's a checkmate by double check. What would be really impressive is a discovered checkmate, where the piece discovering the attack also gives a check, but a check that is irrelevant, since any discovered check would mate anyway.
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It is really Beautiful.
Doh! You roped me in here to see if a double checkmate was actually possible and its just a double check and mate! False advertising, you!
Mar 2, 2009
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I'm trying to imagine a position in which both White and Black are simultaneously checkmated. I suppose it's possible to construct, but I think the last move would have to be moving a piece pinned to the King to give mate the other way.
Under the rules, that would be an illegal move. But I suppose if such a unique position were achieved, one could argue that the game is, or ought to be, a draw!
What about doubling a double check checkmate...anybody got any of those
I conjecture that a true double checkmate is impossible - we'll call it the sandmaster conjecture. Sorry for the false advertising, but does anyone have any other such pics?
P.S. Anna girl this happened because I played a very aggresive game vs the computer one day and *WHAM* managed to get this lovely checkmate. I don't remember the exact seuqnece of moves, but I think the CPU moved his castle to e1 and I moved my knight straight after my queen was under threat.
Mar 3, 2009
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ErnestScribbler wrote:
I'm trying to imagine a position in which both White and Black are simultaneously checkmated. I suppose it's possible to construct, but I think the last move would have to be moving a piece pinned to the King to give mate the other way.
Under the rules, that would be an illegal move. But I suppose if such a unique position were achieved, one could argue that the game is, or ought to be, a draw!
something like this?
1...Be4 ## lol!!
EDIT: hmm...now that I think of it...I should remove the f2 pawn lol!!
It's impossible to get a double checkmate. think about it. if white moved a piece that checkmated black but also his own king, then the move would be illegal. same with black. you cannot put your own king into check.
I have left the opponent blank for sake of annonymity, but I discovered, during a recent game that I had a neat double check-mate this way. Not a neatly pretty one like the first in this post, but it does fit the criteria. Anyway, this is the first time it's ever happened to me, so I remembered it when I saw this post.
Very nice. Double check resulting in mate is the correct way I do believe.
Hey, check this game ending I managed to get whilst playing the computer, rather beautiful I think.
Does anyone else have pictures of such "double checkmates"? I'd love to see them.