(These are the only entries in the table with the opposing king as the sole defender.) Any other pieces or pawns added would reduce the necessary number of moves. See Wikipedia again for a table: a queen takes at most 10 moves to mate with best play, a rook takes at most 16, two bishops 19, and bishop and knight (as mentioned) 33. In other cases, mate could be forced sooner. However, this scenario is extremely improbable, as a quicker mate would certainly be preferred.Īs to the first question, if you only have a king, and your opponent has sufficient material to force mate, the minimum necessary number of moves in all positions would be 33 - in the case of King, Bishop, and Knight against King. The game could go on for over 3000 moves before it must end ( * 50 moves = 3100 moves). The fools mate received its name because it can. Theoretically, if you have lost all your pieces and he has lost none of his, he could jockey pieces around (making sure not to allow the same position three times) while every 50 moves moving a pawn or forcing you to capture a piece. Checkmate in few moves shorts viral shortsfeed chessgeniemaths chesschess openingshow to play chessyoutube chesschess gamechess tacticsbest chess. The fools mate can be achieved in two moves only by Black, giving checkmate on the second move with the queen. Now, one set of moves could take say 40 moves to get checkmate from this point, but the least number is say 19 moves away. (there is a way to get checkmate with a bishop a knight, so checkmate is assumed to be guaranteed ). As long as the same position is not reached more than twice and there is no 50 move stretch without a pawn move or capture, the game can go on until there are no pieces left. Let's assume you are white and have, say, a bishop and a knight left and black is down to just the king. The answer is 'yet unknown, but we have a known current record holder'. Tony has already answered the second question - it could legally be thousands of moves depending on the position. Do you mean "what is the minimum necessary number of moves?", or "what is the maximum allowable?"
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