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What's the rarest kind of checkmate?

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SUKAIRAA
Two knights forced checkmate might be the rarest checkmate. Two knights alone is not enough to checkmate, as the opposing king must be put in stalemate for at least one move.
lfPatriotGames

The rarest kind of checkmate is probably the one that was in the daily puzzle today. The one where a knight delivers checkmate, and a knight and bishop both cover the lone escape square. With a queen sacrifice.

I'll bet nobody has ever seen one of those before.

En_Passalt

Idk if theres a "rarest" checkmate, maybe a small percent of ppl using it can be considered rare. If I had to choose one I would probably choose the double knight forced mate :/

Gimfain

Two bishops checkmate in a game between players rated below 500.

ultimate_yonko
en passant discovered checkmate
ngotm

OK seriously one time I just played against a bot and it CASTLE CHECKMATED me

Seriously I am not kidding this is a dead rare occurrence.

SUKAIRAA

DAMNNNNNNNNNNN

lfPatriotGames
GabeMiami10 wrote:

Double Ambiguous Bishop en passant mate. its real. look up, what is the rarest move in chess.

Those are pretty common.

What's rare is the en passant triple sacrifice leading to a knight promotion smothered mate. That you don't see too often.

fred1259

I mate with no pieces taken

fred1259

A mate*

HiImNavendu

I once accidentally did a single knight and 1 pawn checkmate

So here white had 28 points of extra material still lost anyway I think that's the rarest checkmate in that kind of position where everyone thinks you're losing

TheGreatFelix04
I think it would be an en passant discovered check that makes a double checkmate. That would be very rare.
borovicka75
En passant is definitely mosr rare. One must be at least Carlsen to costruct it against himself. ( Hammer - Carlsen)
fred1259

A impossible checkmate

whykayofficial

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/find-the-checkmate

ashvasan
En passant checkmate
KevinOSh

It is only half related to this question but this video is really cute and well made. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Roaming_Rooster

The rarest move is Ke(π-πi)

Simon302010
Roaming_Rooster wrote:

The rarest move is Ke(π-πi)

😂 i saw that last night

William6794
Definitely windmill