napoleon123456 wrote:
black has five legal moves!! no mate!!
You mean six legal moves, of which 1...Qd7 does not make logical sense.
Why is this not a checkmate???
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May 13, 2019
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#24
“When the patzer sees check he plays check because the patzer thinks he has seen checkmate”
- Anonymous.
There are many moves that can block the bishop from checking the king. So although the king can't move, the moves that block the king will easily let the king escape by castling or something, but since you are probably new to chess, I would understand why you may make these kinds of mistakes.
May 13, 2019
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#26
The king cannot move although black has many options to block. just because the king cannot move does not mean (sometimes) opposition has mate
May 13, 2019
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#27
this guy probably figoured it by now why the computer did not recognize his "checkmate"...so enough said for this thread...goodbye everyone
May 13, 2019
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#30
TXBaseballFan wrote:
Get it?
yes i get it your genious idea checkmNaOtTe = NOT
you added another t however...
Black is in "Check" but he is not in "Checkmate".
"Check" is called when the opponent has a legal move to get out of "Check".
"Checkmate" is called (and the game ends) when the opponent has no legal move to get out of "Checkmate".
Best of luck in your chess career, and welcome to chess.com!
yygogo99 wrote:
First off... is this position even possible?
Of course it is! Bc4-b5+ or Ba6-b5+.
White probably moved the bishop twice in the opening via c4 and b5.
May 13, 2019
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#36
eric0022 wrote:
Right! 
But wouldn't the person just have played Bb5 on move two if s/he thought that it was a mate already? In that case, this move order might have been more reasonable: 1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 h6 3. Bc4 Ne7 4. d3 d6 5. Bb5+
yygogo99 wrote:
eric0022 wrote:
Right, of course! But wouldn't the person just have played Bb5 on move two if s/he felt that it was a mate already?
Possibly the author asked the question only after the moves in the actual game happened. He/she would probably have not realised it otherwise.
Or perhaps ...d5 was played on the fourth move.
The computer says that this is not a checkmate:
White's bishop at b5 is checkmating black's king. Why doesn't the computer recognize this?
Did u start playing chess yesterday no offense