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Lesson 23: King and Rook Checkmate

The Rook Checkmate


In Lesson 19 we showed you how to deliver
checkmate with just a king and queen. Your
pieces need to work together to force your
opponent’s king to the edge of the board
where it can be trapped.
The technique is similar if you have a rook ra-
ther than a queen. However, there’s only one
type of checkmate available this time: a BACK
RANK checkmate.

The Crucial Waiting Move


A rook isn’t as powerful as a queen so it takes
more patience to deliver the checkmate. Of-
ten you have to wait a move for the right posi-
tion. Here it’s White’s move. The Black king is
stuck on the squares b8 and a8. 1. Rc8+ imme-
diately would lose the rook. 1. Rb6+ would allow
the Black king to escape its trap by 1...Kc7.
Instead, White should wait a move by 1. Rc5
(or c4, c3, etc.). After 1...Ka8 it’s checkmate
by 2. Rc8.

Puzzle Corner
Can you either find the immediate checkmate or a waiting move that leads to
checkmate on the following move.

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King and Rook Checkmate: Closing the Box
The Black king is trapped in a box of 12 squares. Just as in Lesson 19, we’re
going to follow a plan. On each move we either use the rook to make the box
smaller, or bring our king closer to the action to support the rook. Let’s try:

x 1. Re5 Our box now has nine


x squares.

x 1.
2. Ke4
Kf7
Kf6
x 3. Kf4 Kg6 The White king has
xxx moved in to support.
Now the box is re-
duced to six squares.
4. Rf5 Kg7 If 4...Kh6, 5. Rg5 and
the box has three
squares.
5. Kg5 Kh7
6. Rf7+ Kh8
7. Kg6 Kg8 We’ve reached the
second diagram. Now
for the crucial waiting
move.
8. Rf6 Kh8
9. Rf8# It’s checkmate.

Practice Makes Perfect II Grandmaster Test—Lesson 22


The king and rook checkmate is an essential Answer: White wins by sacrificing two
chess skill. It takes practice and patience to pawns to promote the third: 1. g6 fxg6 2.
learn the technique of supporting your rook h6 gxh6 3. f6 and the f-pawn queens. Or,
with your king to force checkmate. Try put- 1. g6 hxg6 2. f6 gxf6 3. h6 and the h-
ting White’s king and a rook on their starting pawn queens. It would be a mistake to
squares and the Black king on e5. It’s actual- begin with the f or h pawns: 1. f6 gxf6 2.
ly checkmate in 14 moves. If you can manage g6 fxg6 and Black wins, or 1. h6 gxh6 2.
that in 28 moves you’re doing amazingly well! gxh6 Kb5 and Black also wins.

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