Timeline for Has checkmate ever been achieved by castling queenside in a high-level game?
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| Feb 27, 2023 at 9:35 | vote | accept | Nicolas Formichella | ||
| Feb 25, 2023 at 14:15 | comment | added | Zizy Archer | @Valorum These games ended with OOO but there was at least one other checkmating move. Rook obviously can always move to the final square. But there are possible scenarios where the king cannot move from his rank to deliver checkmate (simplest: white has Ra1, Ra2, black has Rh2, king on g1/h1). There is even a possibility that both the king and the rook had to move to checkmate - black king on d3 and the white king preventing move to c2. Say with Ng3, Bd4 and b3. I doubt either of these two options happened in a serious game. | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 13:33 | comment | added | Michael West | @bof The Lasker game always make me sad for a missed opportunity. I understand Lasker preferred to move his King because it is "more efficient" as only one piece is moved. | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 11:29 | comment | added | Ian Bush | Link for the Lasker-Thomas game: chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1259009 | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 11:07 | comment | added | LordHieros | @Valorum In all five games simply moving the rook or king would have resulted in a checkmate too, so there was nothing special about the castle that would have surprised the opponent. It would be interesting finding a game where the castle was the only possible checkmate (maybe a case where three pieces in front of the king would make moving it to discover the rook impossible) | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 10:19 | comment | added | Valorum | Is there any indication that this move came out of the blue and totally blindsided the player/s beaten? | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 9:19 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | @NicolasFormichella Thank you. New toy for me 🙂 | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 9:17 | comment | added | Nicolas Formichella | CQL running on the ChessBase Megabase 2023 @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 9:16 | history | edited | Nicolas Formichella | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2023 at 9:15 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | What is the tool used for the script? | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 0:02 | comment | added | bof | It might also be worth mentioning the famous Lasker–Thomas game which almost ended in O-O-O# except that Edward Lasker chose to move his king instead. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 21:36 | history | answered | Nicolas Formichella | CC BY-SA 4.0 |