What's the rarest kind of checkmate?

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analist76bis

https://www.chess.com/game/live/136605001605

not so rare... I manage to make even more than one per day in some periods... but funny

emilio1689

https://youtu.be/n3mTsTeQNm8?si=n5ZyAix9XbzdMiZa

BaphometsChess
The one you perform!
William6794
Hugo_R_G wrote:
20Priyanshu15 escribió:
William6794 wrote:

Around 1 min

You are the fastest!

Well did you copy paste or something else?

He sent a shorter one and he did copy paste

As a matter of fact, I did!

lfPatriotGames
c124875 wrote:

Double disambiguated bishop capture checkmate

The explanation is in this YouTube video:

While a couple of those moves are rare, happening zero out of 342 billion times, it seems like they would be tied with the 30% of moves never seen. Also at zero.

It's hard to say how many of those 114 billion moves never seen are checkmate, but it's probably a lot. Which is to say that all of the rare checkmates that people have suggested so far are not the rarest. Because they have happened at least once.

analist76bis

in order to be...its obvious that had to happen from time to time...

The_Mysterious854

Honestly, to me, I think promotion to knight checkmate or pawn checkmate is the rarest.

lfPatriotGames
The_Mysterious53 wrote:

Honestly, to me, I think promotion to knight checkmate or pawn checkmate is the rarest.

But as we have just seen, from the video, it's not. Not even close to the rarest.

The_Mysterious854
lfPatriotGames wrote:
The_Mysterious53 wrote:

Honestly, to me, I think promotion to knight checkmate or pawn checkmate is the rarest.

But as we have just seen, from the video, it's not. Not even close to the rarest.

I didn't watch the video tho.

analist76bis
The_Mysterious53 wrote:

Honestly, to me, I think promotion to knight checkmate or pawn checkmate is the rarest.

I manage to give evem 2 peon mate in a dayhappy.png its far far to rare..I manage to take one ..also...in last month

The_Mysterious854
analist76bis wrote:
The_Mysterious53 wrote:

Honestly, to me, I think promotion to knight checkmate or pawn checkmate is the rarest.

I manage to give evem 2 peon mate in a day its far far to rare..I manage to take one ..also...in last month

It is rare. so is underpromotion checkmate. And I've given 3-4 of em in a day once

Anl2228

resignation on first move

JosephReidNZ

Castling mate

MapleLeafPlayer
The lethal double king checkmate!
analist76bis

https://www.chess.com/game/live/137365389008

LOOK HERE...queen sacrifice on peon and double check matehappy.png

hanse12129

Hi

analist76bis

hi to you, too

FatRatScat

Sorry CrypticPassage but both you and have played that mate so it's not that rare. Mine was a transposition of your game but final position identical.

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analist76bis

what I didtn see at all..its a mate with en-passant move!