Ajedrez para Dummies by James Eade

Author:James Eade [Eade, James]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Tags: Divulgación, Deportes y juegos
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2011-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

The three-king circus

The famous chess teacher George Koltanowski was fond of telling the following story: He was teaching the rules of the game to a brand-new student, and the student was eager to play a game right away. George easily set up a mating net (a situation where checkmate is eventually unavoidable), in which the student’s king couldn’t escape checkmate. While George was setting up the checkmate, the student was busy pushing a pawn toward the queening square. George saw that the pawn could queen, but he didn’t mind because he was going to deliver checkmate on the very next move.

George was stunned when the student pushed the pawn to the queening square and promoted it to — a king! Seems that George had told the student that the pawn could be promoted to any other piece and forgot to mention the restriction involving kings. The student made him stick to his own rule! This case may be the only one involving more than two kings on a chessboard. With a sly wink, George always ended the story by saying he played a move that checkmated both kings simultaneously!

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