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pawn to queen lead to checkmate?

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earlito
Dec 1, 2011
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It is white's turn to move.  White moves the pawn.  I believe promotion (Queen in this case) is automatic.  The question is --- what is Black's move?  Is this a stalemate because he can't or an outright checkmate?
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chessgdt
Dec 1, 2011
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#2

outright checkmate

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Ryuk4
Dec 1, 2011
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#3
Yep, that's mate
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lasershoot
Dec 1, 2011
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#4

checkmate!!

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earlito
Dec 1, 2011
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#5

Thanks for confirming!  My friend (who was playing white) was being nice to me and said that maybe it's a stalemate since the black king had nowhere to go when the pawn got promoted to queen.  I would have loved if it was so but I told him it was a checkmate.  Both of us are novices.

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lasershoot
Dec 1, 2011
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#6

your welcome :)

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earlito
Dec 1, 2011
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earlito
Dec 1, 2011
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#8

ja, IMDeviate.  

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lasershoot
Dec 1, 2011
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#9

btw promoting into a rook is possible because it is a gullotine checkmate.

try to solve this:

 

Help!!! Can anyone improve??

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browni3141
Dec 1, 2011
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#10

White hung his queen on move 11.

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Ubik42
Dec 1, 2011
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#11
lasershoot wrote:

btw promoting into a rook is possible because it is a gullotine checkmate.

try to solve this:

 

Help!!! Can anyone improve??

 The correct move is not 1. e4?? (which loses the queen to an 11 move combination) but instead 1. d4! Leading to a forced win in all variations, e.g.

1...g5

2. e4 f5

3. Qh5++

etc.

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Wou_Rem
Dec 2, 2011
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#12
earlito wrote:

Thanks for confirming!  My friend (who was playing white) was being nice to me and said that maybe it's a stalemate since the black king had nowhere to go when the pawn got promoted to queen.  I would have loved if it was so but I told him it was a checkmate.  Both of us are novices.

Even if you ignore the checkmate black still has a multiple pieces he can move. So it can never be a stalemate.

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earlito
Dec 2, 2011
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#13

ok, ignoring the obvious checkmate, a draw only happens if all the pieces for black (just as an example) cannot make a move (stuck in place).  Gotcha.  Thanks for adding that Wouter.