can you check mate with just a bishop and a king with no chance of getting a queen moving a pawn when thats all each player has and how long can it go on for when one player doe'sen't want to draw
If your question is: can you mate when the ONLY material on the board is:
one side has K+B, and the other has just K, then NO, you cannot mate, ever, even without the 50 move rule. There is just no mate position.
If either side has more material on the board. It depends on it, of course.
cannot mate with a single minor piece or with 2 knights.
I hear it is very difficult to mate with just 2 bishops.
someone correct if i'm wrong.
Or 50 moves without a pawn move.
FIDE 9.6: The game is drawn when a position is reached from which a checkmate cannot occur by any possible series of legal moves, even with the most unskilled play. This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing this position was legal.
If K+B vs K is all that is left, the game ends immediately--it's a draw.
checkers4me> cannot mate with a single minor piece or with 2 knights.
Correct, if neither side has any other material. Two knights... and rarely even one knight... can mate an opposing K+P. ;)
checkers4me> I hear it is very difficult to mate with just 2 bishops.
If you've never done them before, they can be challenging, especially under time pressure. The good news is, they only take a little time to master. Mastering the B+B mate or B+N mate is much, much easier than mastering, say K+R+P vs K+R.
Now that I know mating with 2 bishops (no jokes please) isn't as tough as I thought, I will go work on it.
So much endgame material to learn....
Likeforests:
You wrote:
Well, do you know of any good resources forteaching these endgames? I run a HS chess club and havn't anything to use as a resource here.
Considering your audience, I think the best explanation of these mates can be found in Pandolfini's Endgame Course. Pandolfini's method is basically to begin with a simple mate-in-two, and then slowly work towards general positions. He explains the B+B mate in 4 diagrams and the B+N mate in 9 diagrams.
As far as a teaching method, after either giving those positions as homework or explaining them in class, one method chess teacher Polly Wright uses (her kids are younger) is to let each student try to mate her and give an award (medal, ribbon--these can be really simple plastic things) to the one who accomplishes it the fastest.
I hope that helps. Glad to hear you're taking the time to teach kids. :)
Sure there is: by the Chess Mentor I found this: mate with King and two bishops angainst King alone, but I remember it isn't simple to do !
Friendly greetings,
Herman
Two knights can mate only, if the other side has at least 1 pawn.
Two bishops can mate vs lone king quite easily.
Bishop and a Knight vs lone King can mate,but it's quite difficult.
learned alot must go practice
lol once beat me phone w/ jsut a king n rook
it's a draw 'cause the 50 move rule
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