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Black Threatens Checkmate!!
I was playing our Fighting Chess bot (again), and in this variant, I think that bishops and rooks are about equal. So, it appears I am holding my own in this position. We each have three pawns and two pieces.
Normally, I don’t put the checkmates or losses I get against the computer here on Medium. But, this one is different! Look at the position (note that this is Fighting Chess — a chess variant I invented that solves the draw death of chess at the world championship level). Fighting Chess rules are here: https://medium.com/boardgamesandcards/fighting-chess-rules-97857b98452e
We currently have our bot here: http://games.dtco.ru. However, we will soon have it at www.boardgamesandcards.com as well, so stay tuned for this!!
So, look at this computer move. It brings the rook down to its eighth rank. I don’t see any problem here. I actually expected it to put it on the seventh to give two rooks on the seventh for itself. I moved my rook to g7, which is quite pointless. But, I need to do something I think. I think I wanted to get it to g3 where I could trade it off. But, nothing of that sort was going to happen because Black’s rook move to b1 was a threat of checkmate, and I missed it. I thought it wasted its turn by putting its rook on the eighth because the rooks weren’t connected. Ah, but they are connected as you’ll see.
