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The Basic Checkmates in Sand Castle Art
Do you know the basic checkmates? Knowing the basic mates is like knowing the alphabet. The alphabet of chess. I’m not going to show you all of them here in this article, but what I am going to do is show you one of them in a way so that you will never forget it. I went to Lake Michigan to visit my friend and her daughter. She wanted to learn chess. She wanted to see the basic mates. So we showed her one of them, the one with the rook and the knight. Did you know that if you get your opponent’s king into the corner you can checkmate him with just a rook and a knight? Can you picture how it’s done? Try it on your own with a board first and then watch our video where we did it in sand castle form!
Spanish Chess Terms (Continued)
There are also a few other chess terms that may be helpful for you to know if you are going to play chess in a Spanish speaking county. If you want to say check during your chess game, you say Jaque during your chess game. For checkmate, you say JaqueMate.
A draw in chess is called tablas, which is what you would say if you wanted to offer one. A stalemate in chess is called ahogado. A castle in chess is called enroque.
Legal’s Mate
Watch out for the trap of the deadly Legal’s Mate! It comes out of the Philidor defense, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 (Philidor’s) 3. Nc3 a6? 4. Bc4 Bg4 5. Nxe5! Bxd1? 6. Bxf7+ Ke7 7. Nd5# and it’s curtains! Don’t just memorize the moves though, understand the concept (good advice for any series of moves) of being able to check such that the king is trapped and can only move to e7, and that nothing can capture the Knight when it lands on d5. If the bishop, for example moves off its original square, then the f8 square comes available for the king to escape to and woops! You lost your queen for nothing. Watch the video and see the Legal’s Mate Victory Dance!
Chess Language- “CheckMate”
The chess phrase CheckMate - to attack (a chess opponent’s king) in such a manner that no escape or defense is possible, thus ending the game - by some theories comes from the Persian phrase ’shah mat,’ translating into ‘the king is defeated.’
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