What is the most efficient checkmate?
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Quentinkn
May 9, 2025
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#1
What’s the most efficient checkmate to use when playing?
queen and rook
Well, all checkmates are efficient, by definition: The game ends instantly at your favor.
If you mean what is the FASTEST checkmate then it might be Legal's Mate. You can look that one up. But this one I stumbled upon yesterday was pretty fast. BTW, Stockfish told me it could have been a move faster. All I wanted to do was take the Knight so the OP would be double-pawned. I didn't even see the revealed check. I'm only a 450-500 player!
https://www.chess.com/game/live/138347417954?move=0
Sorry, I guess mine wasn't even a checkmate - the OP actually just resigned when I took their queen!
May 12, 2025
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#9
the best mate is to eat all the pieces and kill the king later. PERFECT!
A queen and a knight if you still have it, otherwise two rooks trapping the king, or a rook and a queen like someone said, but that depends?
May 13, 2025
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#12
Do you mean "the most efficient opening to use"?
At low-to-mid playing strength, it's
- One or both center Pawns out
- One or both Knights out
- One or both Bishops out
- Castle.
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