Can a king mate a king?
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Kings and kings can’t be next to each other because they would be putting them self in a check
Nov 8, 2018
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lfPatriotGames wrote:
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
Also, can I play a game against someone? I feel confident in my chess skills now that I know a king cannot mate a king. (My friend and I spent an hour trying to mate each other with two kings on the board - I think I had a slight edge though because his king was in the corner - but irrespective, I think I could probably beat someone rated 2000 (or maybe 3000) now)
By the depth of your questions, you could probably beat a 3500 player. The fact you knew what those ratings mean, but didn't know the difference between check and checkmate indicates a very high level of understanding. To answer your other questions, which only a 3000 rated player would not know yet, how many checkmates are there? 7, but only 6 have ever been achieved. Can a king mate a king? Yes. Just not in chess. It is 2018 afterall.
Thanks so much for the encouragement 
Nov 8, 2018
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#24
EdwardAB17 wrote:
A king cannot mate a king unless it moves out of the way of another piece, freeing it up to checkmate the king, like in the following example:
ok thanks
Nov 8, 2018
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#25
LouStule wrote:
Hey Grumpy Banana. Spend less time on the forums and more time in the lessons. Oh, and btw, so you know 2Q?
Nope. Never heard of him! And I'm Lumpy, NOT Grumpy
Nov 8, 2018
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#26
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
lfPatriotGames wrote:
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
Also, can I play a game against someone? I feel confident in my chess skills now that I know a king cannot mate a king. (My friend and I spent an hour trying to mate each other with two kings on the board - I think I had a slight edge though because his king was in the corner - but irrespective, I think I could probably beat someone rated 2000 (or maybe 3000) now)
By the depth of your questions, you could probably beat a 3500 player. The fact you knew what those ratings mean, but didn't know the difference between check and checkmate indicates a very high level of understanding. To answer your other questions, which only a 3000 rated player would not know yet, how many checkmates are there? 7, but only 6 have ever been achieved. Can a king mate a king? Yes. Just not in chess. It is 2018 afterall.
Thanks so much for the encouragement
could you possibly list all 6 played checkmates, thanks. Also can we play a game?
Nov 8, 2018
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#27
IMBacon wrote:
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
Hi. I am relatively new to Chess.com and I have just started to learn to play chess. Could someone please respond to my question? Thanks!
Actually...you have been here NUMEROUS times.
I have? This is my first time with an account.
Nov 8, 2018
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#29
Anyway, this thread has already been resolved. (the question was answered) Now I am just looking for people to play daily games with
Nov 8, 2018
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#30
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This forum topic has been resolved, thank you for your responses. Please only post in this forum to challenge me to a daily game
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
I feel confident in my chess skills now that I know a king cannot mate a king. (My friend and I spent an hour trying to mate each other with two kings on the board…. )
lol I know you two.
Hollywood shoot the movie about you... with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
Nov 8, 2018
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#32
korotky_trinity wrote:
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
I feel confident in my chess skills now that I know a king cannot mate a king. (My friend and I spent an hour trying to mate each other with two kings on the board…. )
lol I know you two.
Hollywood shoot the movie about you... with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
Yep that's us.....
Nov 8, 2018
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#34
Are there really 485 other Grumpy Bananas on here so that you had to be 486?
korotky_trinity schreef:
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
I feel confident in my chess skills now that I know a king cannot mate a king. (My friend and I spent an hour trying to mate each other with two kings on the board…. )
lol I know you two.
Hollywood shoot the movie about you... with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
And a horse? Can a king mate a horse?
Nov 8, 2018
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#36
I helped assist a scholastic chess tournament once, a young boy moved his king next to his opponent's king. I said it was an illegal move. He asked why, I told him that Kings dance with Queens, not with other Kings. LOL #TrueStory
A king cannot move into check, so a king cannot check a king, so the only mate a king can give is stalemate
LumpyBanana486 wrote:
Hi. I am relatively new to Chess.com and I have just started to learn to play chess. Could someone please respond to my question? Thanks!
A king cannot checkmate a king. There is insufficient material to checkmate. I'll show you:
After 23 seconds, the king cannot checkmate each other.
Sorry, but bi-sexual and homosexual royalty have tried for millennia to do so, but these unions produce NO OFFSPRING whatsoever, Not only not fertile, but not even hybrid! Whereas, mules can very, very rarely produce offspring mating either with a horse or a donkey . . . thus far such royal encounters have proven uniformly BARREN. But, good luck with the project anyway! Probably the best answer is NO, they can't even check each other or stalemate each other.