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1.g8=B is also no good, since after 1...exf6 2.exf6 Bxg2+ the bishop can interpose with 3.Bd5. The only move by which White can force Black to deliver checkmate on or before move two is 1.c8=N. There are two variations: 1...exf6 2.exf6 Bxg2# is a selfmate; 1...e6 allows 2.g8=B (the e6 pawn blocks 3.Bd5), forcing 2...Bxg2# and selfmate.
Fool's mate was named and described in The Royal Game of Chess-Play, a 1656 text by Francis Beale that adapted the work of the early chess writer Gioachino Greco. [2]Prior to the mid-19th century, there was not a prevailing convention as to whether White or Black moved first; according to Beale, the matter was to be decided in some prior contest or decision of the players' choice. [3]
A hand-drawn lyric video accompanied the single's release on June 26. [4] Later, on July 25, a music video for "Checkmate" was released on YouTube. [3] It has accumulated over 10 million views, as of December 2023. [9] The music video's setting evokes imagery relating to late 1990s and early 2000s nostalgia. [10]
"Checkmate" is a song by American rapper and singer Rod Wave, released on September 14, 2023 as the fifth single from his fifth studio album Nostalgia (2023). It was produced by BeatsbyTrain, Camm and Fraxille.
The scholar's mate (also known as the four-move checkmate) is the checkmate achieved by the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6?? 4. Qxf7# The moves might be played in a different order or in slight variation, but the basic idea is the same: the queen and bishop combine in a simple mating attack on f7 (or f2 if Black is performing the mate). [46]
[2] In the positions in which the pawn wins, at most nineteen moves are required to promote the pawn (with optimal play) and at most nine more moves to checkmate, assuming that the pawn was promoted to a queen. [3] Except for the section on defending and some actual games, it will be assumed that White has a king and pawn and Black has a lone ...
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According to Jadakiss, he made "a lot of money" off the feud. [2] In 2011, he claimed the feud was "just a good marketing tool for 50 and his second album". [5] In 2022, XXL magazine described the song as an "exercise in concision and rhyme technique" and called it "one of the very best clapbacks in rap history". [11]