How to win at the game of chess when your opponent is only left with "king"?

Question

How to win at the game of chess when your opponent is only left with "king"?

Answer 1

Force the king to the edge of the board. Use two rooks for checkmate.

Answer 2

Checkmate him with a piece worth not less than a rook except for a pawn.

Answer 3

It depends - what pieces have you got left yourself? If you have only a bishop, a knight or two knights, it's impossible. If you have only a pawn, try to get it promoted without getting captured.

With a queen or a rook, use both king and queen or rook to bit by bit restrict the movement of the opposing king until he only has one edge, with the queen or rook covering the next line. You rarelly give check in the process - if you give check, the king can go in both directions, which is exactly what you do not want. Once the king is trapped on the side, try to get the mate with your king facing his king, covering the three squares on the second row, and your queen or rook mating along the first row.

With 2 bishops, use both bishops (and the king) to again push the opponent's king to the edge, then the corner. With bishop and knight, the mating sequence is so complicated that to be honest I do not know it.

Answer 4

Make Checkmate by threatening the King and give it no spaces to move into without putting itself in check. You cannot checkmate with only a King and bishop, or King and Rook.

Answer 5

corner the king and there u hv it!!!!

Answer 6

Throw the board in their face and than kick them while their stunned, that way you'll never lose to them again.

Answer 7

You have to make checkmate. Which is when the opponents king is in check (being attacked by other pieces) and cannot run away because he will be attacked anywhere it goes.

Tip : Even though it's not going to result in checkmate, always put the opponents king in check. Because sometimes, unluckily, stalemate happens and the game becomes a draw

(stalemate is when a king is not in check but cannot move anywhere without being checked)

Answer 8

Checkmates against an isolated king are fundamental when learning to play chess.

The least pieces needed would be king and queen vs. king, king and rook vs. king, king and two bishops vs. king, or bishop, knight, and king vs. king.

Notice that you only need a lone queen or rook to checkmate.  This is why the queen and rook are called the "major" pieces and the bishop and knight are the "minor" pieces.

Any endgame position with a pawn strategy revolves around advancing the pawn to the last rank and queening it thereby gaining mating material.

You could see directions how to checkmate with the above pieces with nearly any beginner chess book.

Some points to remember:  if your opponent cannot make a legal move, this is called "stalemate" and the game is a draw.

At lower levels of chess, a strategy is to give up your last piece for your opponent's last pawn, leaving them with a king and two knights thereby making checkmate impossible and the game ending in a draw.

Usually at the higher levels of chess, a clear pawn up without positional compensation would be a won game.

Answer 9

u need to have a rook or a queen first of all ( along with a king). Ih u only have a king and a bishop and or knight and no other pieced ( no panws either ) then its an automatic stalemate becasue it is impossible to win with just those pieces. U have to trap the oppennets king using ur quuen and rook WITH ur king to help. If u have other pieces that can help u that would be nice. umm yeah thats it hope it helped!

Answer 10

jp "the man" is wrong. Checkmating with only a King and a Rook is one of the most fundamental checkmates taught in most chess books.  Queens and Rooks are called "major pieces" while Knights and Bishops are called "minor pieces". The definition of a major piece is that it can checkmate a lone King aided only by its own King.

Answer 11

good tutorial

Answer 12

trap the king using two of your pieces, like a rook and a queen, or a bishop and a queen, or a knight and a rook.

Just don't allow a "Stalemate."