I am very new - how is this checkmate?
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25 days ago
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#2
The bishop is diagonal with the queen, which makes it a checkmate
24 days ago
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#5
The dark-squared bishop's also controlling f2 and g1.
The Queen's giving check and is being protected by the light-squared bishop
24 days ago
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#6
How to check that it’s checkmate:
- no squares to walk away
- no possibility to take checkmating piece
- no figure in from of your king to protect against check
Review all these 3 points and you will see its checkmate
- no squares to walk away
- no possibility to take checkmating piece
- no figure in from of your king to protect against check
Review all these 3 points and you will see its checkmate
DalinarKholin1948 wrote:
Look at your A1 Bishop
There is no bishop on a1. Even if there was one, it wouldn't matter one bit.
Leto wrote:
There is very important bishop at c5.
There is no way to tell what the real question is. Maybe the OP missed the c8 bishop, maybe the c8 bishop, maybe the OP doesn't know how the bishop or the queen moves, or what "checkmate" is. Who knows?
21 days ago
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#12
Wow. I'm totally new to chess and chess.com and the responses to this post are not encouraging. Be nice people. It's not hard.
21 days ago
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#13
I'm new too and figuring out what counts as checkmate is also my biggest confusion. Here the bishop on C5 is preventing the white king from escaping the queen. To escape the queen it has to move to g2 or f3 and it can't because it's moving into a square protected by another piece, the black bishop on C5.
The two black bishops and the queen all block the king from moving to a safe square, ending the game
Bishops protecting Queen
The queen g3, f3 and (!) f1. The black bishop on c4 blocks f2 and g1. Therefore the king can’t escape without in check again. This is defined as checkmate. He can’t make any move anymore and there is no white figure who could protect him.
Edit: I’m a total beginner as well. Do tactics. They help. Study them, or: use a real board and actually make the moves to realize why they aren’t possible.
Took it out because I realized what I didnt see - I cant figure out how to delete this entire thread - sorry