the hardest checkmate is King + Knight + Bishop vs. King, King + Rook vs. King is insanely easy its ridculous to say its even hard. If you think its hard you simply haven't learned that mating sequence.
Hardest Mate
Here my worldreord from 2016 : Mate in 553 moves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC3oecykcC8
There is NO 50M rule at FIDE for worldrecords like above
My chessproblems ( over 300 chessproblems WITH 50M rule ) anybody can find at gameknot.
You can klick here and try to solve them directly by clicking :
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Lutz Neweklowsky
3 Rooks, 3 Knights, 3 Bishops + 2 pawns v 3 Queens and 8 pawns is quite hard, though materially equal.
King vs King. always ends in stalemate. :'-(
No, it does never end in stalemate. In games and retrograde problems it ends straight away because the position is dead. In endgame studies it ends in a repetition draw. In other problem compositions it ends either by the 50M rule or by repetition.
It is all very confusing today. Read my post "understanding dead reckoning" to see that it could be resolved by the use of Soft DRexit. That would declare K vs K dead in all standard chess types!
Bishop Knight checkmate or middle game checkmate if you didnt Fried Liver or Traxler someone. They definitely didnt bongcloud.
It's not legal but if we have King+Knight vs. King and our opponent is a very bad player we can checkmate him.
what about 2 knights + king vs. King -
K+N+N vs K+P is a forced win in around 50 moves
what about 2 knights + king vs. King -
K+N+N vs K+P is a forced win in around 50 moves
what about 2 knights + king vs. King -
K+N+N vs K+P is a forced win in around 50 moves
I like the lomonosov mobile app
In Order from Easiest to Hardest:
Two Queens(Requires Promotion)
Queen vs Pawn
Queen Vs Bishop
Queen vs Knight
Queen vs Rook
One Queen And King
One Queen and One Rook
Two Rooks
One Rook
Two Rooks vs Queen
One Rook and One Knight vs Queen
One Rook and One Bishop vs Queen
Two Bishops
Two Bishops vs a pawn
One Bishop and One Knight
One Bishop and One Knight vs One Pawn
Two Knights vs a Pawn
Two Knights vs a pawn(Advanced)
... here is the whole story ... ( all worldrecords since 1889 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCni05-w_c
kindly regards from Karlsruhe