What's the rarest kind of checkmate?

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I delivered a king discovered checkmate to a computer

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fool's mate

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Doubly disambiguated knight capture checkmate

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Bishop and knight checkmate...where both pieces were the result of underpromotion?

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Checkmate by bribery
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Castle mate

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oh i have that

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this took me way to long to understand.

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j0nysach wrote:

Doubly disambiguated knight capture checkmate

Has it ever happened? If it's happened more than once (or at all), it's not the rarest.

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I probably got the craziest O-O# ever:
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Instead Of Taking A Pawn As A Checkmate Take A Queen As A Checkmate And Your 3 3 3 Bishops Has The Be The Farthest Square Defend The E5 Square.

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1 In 684 Billion. Because Take The Queen. 3 Bishops At The Farthest Square. Defending The E5 Square. Not 1 In 342 Billion.

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Can You Get Rarer Than 1 In 684 Billion?

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Thordelvalle wrote:

Can You Get Rarer Than 1 In 684 Billion?

Yes. If a checkmate has been played it's not the rarest. Zero is rarer than one.

As someone else said, we have to define rare first.

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Castle or En Passant

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double disambiguated bishop chekmate, that's the rarest

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quadratic checkmate of quadruple disambiguated knight checkmate of pq

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Anl2228 wrote:

fool's mate

its fools` mate (both are fools)

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bowhead-whale wrote:

double disambiguated bishop chekmate, that's the rarest

Rumor has it that it's happened at least once. So it can't be the rarest.