![]() White’s king is very vulnerable, with black’s rooks eying down the e1 square, delivering a back rank checkmate in the next move. With the rook joining in on the action, we are often left with a structure that looks something like this: A Back Rank Checkmate Is Imminent For White However, later in the game, this perfect structure usually falls apart. Generally, we want to have the king behind a solid chain of pawns, which protects it from attacks: The King Is Protected By The Rook and Pawns in Front While this is very sound advice and should be followed in most cases, the position of the king after castling can lead to some problems later down the line, especially during the middle– and endgame. Why Is The Back Rank A Vulnerability?īeginners are often told to castle early, thus protecting their king. In other words, your back rank is the row on which your queen, king, rook, bishop and knight are placed in the starting position. The back rank is defined as the first row for White and the eighth row for Black. Let’s look at what exactly the back rank even is, and why it is especially vulnerable to mating attacks! What is The Back Rank?īefore we can get into the nitty-gritty of checkmating on the back rank, let’s first find out what the back rank even is. (16) A final blow, White now threatens checkmate in one move and Black is lost by force.The back rank checkmate, also referred to as the corridor mate, is a common checkmating pattern that occurs, whenever a player delivers a mate on their opponent’s back rank. (15) Tomorrow, it's a high stakes game of chess where a checkmate means you might be checked out of Hollywood. (14) The object of the game is to checkmate your opponent's king. (13) Throwing in the proverbial towel is, however, not an option according to the rules of this particular contest, which state that the game can only end with checkmate or stalemate. (12) I can just keep on checking you, forcing you to move where I want you to before I bring down my other pieces and checkmate. (10) Can I now just force checkmate with a sequence of checks? (11) Perhaps this checkmate will, over time, deprive the opposition of its support and erode the appeal of democracy. (9) To move her bishop to strike his knight would leave the king open on two sides without escape, a checkmate. (8) But neither player could deliver checkmate, so a draw was agreed on move 49. (6) The King is very close to the corner of the board and Black threatens checkmate in two! (7) With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible. (5) If you know what you're doing, and keep at it long enough, you'll eventually achieve a checkmate. ![]() (4) I really don't believe he will checkmate people. (2) if the rebel forces succeed in cutting off the road, they will have achieved checkmate (3) As a consequence, it is theoretically possible to play a perfect game of chess - that is, both players could always work out the exact sequence of optimum moves, right through to checkmate. ![]() (1) Good Chess players rarely play a game to checkmate : they resign when it becomes clear they cannot win in other words, when the game has ceased to be dramatic.
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