what's more elegant, a discovered check mate or a double check mate?

Double check mate:

Discovered Check Mate:

I find 2. Ra6# (or Rh2#) more aesthetically pleasing, following ...Ka8 (...Kh1).

Mate is mate no matter how ugly

You managed to mess up this thread's layout though :p

Aesthetics count, too.

I'm sure you mean accountants?

i prefer the double check

I like the check-blocking checkmate

I often take longer paths to mate to get one that I find more aesthetically pleasing lol.  In this case I would say Ra6# looks nicer, though the bishop isn't necessary.

I prefer double-checmatek, but doesn't a double-ceck mate have to be a discovered-checkmte?

By elegant, do you mean complicated? Is a complex combination elegant or the result of brute force caculation? I'm affraid I don't really get the aesthetics of anything but the winning course of action - on the occasions I can determine what that is!

Ra6# looks like you know more about endgame than Rc7#

They both lead to victory so it doesnt matter.

I had a lot of new tracked activity to check. So I thought this topic was woodshower's.

I'd like a double check mate... It's discovered too! 2x kill