I don’t know what the fuck you just said, but you special. You touched my heart. 

 https://media.tenor.com/C5yZUqb7XIgAAAAC/i-felt-that-in-my-heart-john-legend.gif 

 Wait second rook move is G8 obviously. Oops 

 Not quite 

 Close, but the black king can escape to H7 

 Ah shit that’s right! 

 Looking again idk wtf i was thinking 😭 the rook isn’t even on G. I changed plans and confused myself. This is just terrible. I’ll see myself out 🤣 

 Yes this is important not to turn the pawn to a queen or you have a stalemate, when upgrading to a rook your allowing the King to escape to G7 before being checkmated 

 Not quite, black king can hide on H7 

 https://image.nostr.build/e223db78f06bcad76fb7c40d2d3ff1cd090655651106af9f8ba41441be6aa422.jpg 

 Good guess but that’s not it 

 Giving you some sats for the effort 

 I don’t think that works, but I’m giving you some sats anyways because of your effort 

 Goddamnit you’re right again, he can just move back 😂😂😂 

 I think that’s a stalemate 

 Where does the black king move? 

 It can’t move but it’s not in check so that makes it a stalemate. I am a Chess Expert™️ so you can probably believe me 

 I didn't know that rule 😂

Then the Rook must turn into a Castle forcing the Black King to move to G7.

White Castle F1 moves up to F7 for the checkmate.

https://i.nostr.build/ttgCK2iQ2Qcd88Mb.jpg 

 Giving you some sats anyways because you are cool, I remember you 

 🤣🤣🤣 

 WAIT WRONG JMAGE 

 This is a stalemate not a checkmate 🤣 

 I know i know, one sec. I edited the image with the true answer but it doesn’t seem to be edited once i upload it. Here https://image.nostr.build/59117109e9bfa1b7335c3ecfbbf255d4bd9fb6f5117ff50ec69434b6d6dd00ba.jpg  

 Move #1 is an illegal move :) 

 Fuck, i didn’t know that. I give up https://media1.tenor.com/m/3PkZOiz13JAAAAAC/quasimoto-lord-quas.gif 

 You had good guesses bro 

 Or wait isn’t that mate in 1..? King can’t move with a queen back there 

 If pawn promotes to Queen then there is stalemate 

 So because the black king can’t move into check/mate, it’s a stalemate? Interesting rule. I’d have assumed king trapped is end of story (in favor of opponent)! Learned something new today, thanks 🤝 

 What about this? King’s only “move” gets taken by pawn https://image.nostr.build/3201fbb4a49b4c551b2b81c44d2b2e37b094445aea88752455e142d00ad20152.jpg  

 No UTXO already explained the only correct answer 

 What is “make a rook”? 

 When a pawn reaches the opposite side of the board the player can choose to upgrade to any piece 

 Ah. Thought you only could “choose” a queen. Learned another new thing! Thanks doc 🤙 

 Let’s play sometime! @TomekK and I want to get a nostr chess tournament going 

 I’d love that!! Sorry to ghost yesterday, had to crash. But hell yeah if there’s a chess crew, sign me up 

 Bro you be spanking !  

 do it 

 I won’t win but I will enjoy 

 I thought that was a bishop 😂😂😂 

 https://media.tenor.com/3Wzt5UyrWA0AAAAC/the-bishop.gif 

 (I’m assuming the stalemate is only because king<>king is illegal, whereas forcing the king to move to pawn is ok) 

 This is on the right track 

 Good guess but this leads to stalemate, not checkmate 

 Actually this isn’t stalemate, the black king can move back to H7 so it wouldn’t be a checkmate in 2 

 Good guess but this would not lead to checkmate in 2 since the black king can move back to H7 

 After the pawn promotes to queen you have stalemate since the black king has no legal moves but isn’t in check 

 Technically the black king could move to G7 (instead of H8) to avoid mate in 2. Good guess though! 

 f7-f8 convert to tower
king h7-g7
tower f1-f7 

 Bingo 

 Can’t king escape to H7 after f8? 

 Yeah. you’re right…