Queen Sacrafice at Chess Exchange Forum [ Gambits ]

GeneralsRank · King

Should you sacrafice a queen that will allow you to advance a pawn to have 3 rooks on the board? btw the opponent does not have a queen or rook just a Knight and 2 bishops..(endgame)

Steve Lopez · Moderator

kansasjohn5 · Pawn

That would give you less than what you already have. That is a simple endgame, just mate them.

Crusader Bishop · Pawn

This thread is hilarious. If I were you I would sacrifice all my material and then march my pawns to promotion and mate with Knight and Bishop.

lionel · King

Actually there is a famous(ish) game where the final position was:

one side: all pieces on their original squares, none lost, but no pawns.
other side: nothing left but a free-range king.

It happened because one player, in a truly lost position, refused to resign. The other therefore swapped off or promoted pawns until he had a full complement of pieces and no pawns, and amassed his army back on their original squares, simply to illustrate the silliness of his opponent! I have no idea who was deemed to have won.

I cannot remember who were the two miscreants; I just remember seeing it as a "how did this happen?" puzzle.

Spongebob666 · Rook

Once or twice when an opponents refusal to resign got under my skin, I tried to see how many queens I could get.

It does get challenging to not stalemate your opponent. I managed 5 queens in a speed game. Never had enough extra pawns to try for 6.

I am a fairly gracious person normally and I did worry that I was being rude. However, if your opponent is playing on in a clearly totally and hopelessly lost position then probably all he wants is a chance at flagging you or stalemate, and thats exactly what your giving him. Stalemate is a real risk. Plus, he is free to resign at any time.

I would think restoring the original piece configuration would be 100x harder than 5 queens.

c1arinetboy · Newbie

sir_guy · Pawn

ShadowSong · Pawn

Is it possible to have 9 queens on the board without stalemating or checkmating?

Molloy · Newbie

Yeah this is sort of completely opposite the famous game with all of the original pieces, but I once only had my king and seven pawns, my opponent had the same number of pieces but had a rook and a bishop in place of two pawns, and I just pushed two of my pawns and my king, where they were always defended and kept pushing back her bishop and rook until I captured them on her side, got two queens, and checkmated her. That was for my school championship, to see who would go to the regionals, and she said I got lucky, but then I went and won the regionals^^ I just wish I had the notations of the game.