Checkmate with 2 rooks other ideas
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Mar 4, 2012
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#2
Hi bullet! If this were me, my first move would be hrh5, to trap the dark king on the side of the board with the light king, if the king marches toward the center, then ara4, would be a good move. If the king marches down or to the left, move your king toward it until he threatens your a rook and move your a rook back. The easier way to checkmate (though it's longer) would be to play hrh3, ara4, hrh5, ara6, hrh7, ara8#. If the king threatens one of your rooks, don't protect it with the other rook, just move it to the other side (left or right) of the board, then continue the pattern above. I probably didn't explain it too clearly, but I hope that helped!
Mar 4, 2012
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#3
While connected rooks are good during most of play, having one control one rank/file while another controls an adjacent one is the easiest way to checkmate the king.
The goal is to get the king on one side of the board and then use one rook to cut off the second rank/file while the other checkmates.
The fastes check mate is actually accomplished by playing 1. Rh5 as imullica suggested. It is a mate in 5. You can check it out on Nalimov Endgame Tablebases:
http://www.k4it.de/index.php?topic=egtb&lang=en
Jan 6, 2026
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#5
DID YOU KNOW?
Coach David calls two rooks as a rook roller
and this is it! Let's checkmate
Examples
Two different rook rollers
example of second rook roller
Watch these two games
Some rook rollers stop at buffers. The buffers are shown below through three puzzles.
Even a queen can join a rook roller.
Check out this game
This is a pawn promotion mate but with major piece instead of the king
Check out this game
This is two queens mate and a queen roller.
Deliver a checkmate.
I made too many explanations. I hope it would be helpful for you. Keep checkmating with two rooks.
ADAM_CHESS_A wrote:
My tutorial on how to get Killer King.
Half of the moves are completely useless time-wasters. 1. Rh2 is bad, 2. Rha2 looks like a mouse-slip, 3. Rb2+ is pointless. And so on.
Namaste
