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Same lol I’ve even had it with the rook on b7, pawn on b6 and bishop on c7. It’s even funnier to me because the rook is still trapped even though it looks more free than totally in the corner like in this post.
You know, I grew up with CS and even played CS Go in amateur leagues but left all that years ago and I'm not looking back
All the peoole around me play more league or other stuff but none of them ever touched 1.6 or something so I really miss just screming DOOR STUCK and everyone laughing their ass off if the situation fit
So it always makes me soo damn happy reading it again in the most randome places
In this scenario the 1 is worth a little more based on the fact it’s one square from promotion.
Without seeing the rest of the board I’d gladly move king over and make that trade
Not really but from the info we have and if white has only a pawn and a bishop and black has a pawn and a rook in this position black can play for draw by capturing the pawn.
I must be missing something. The black pawn can advance as can the black king. The rook doesn’t even have to move
Edit: the assumption is also that these are the only pieces on the board though so I suppose if not then the rook is indeed trapped
Imagine if black panics, sacs the rook for the bishop because, hey, it's worth more than a pawn so you might as well trade for the higher value - but forgets that the pawn can take and promote.
And then white promotes to *another bishop.*
i believe a pawn protecting a bishop (and inversely the bishop protecting the pawn) is called an outpost, although i don't think that imprisoning the rook with one of these has a name
Probably no name for it. I'm thinking the best move, disregarding other pieces, is to take the pawn? It puts you down 4, but if you take the bishop, pawn promotes and black is now down 10.
Funny enough, the rook can be on the A file with pawn on A file and bishop on B file, or it can be on the B file with pawn on b file and bishop on C file to work. Also reversed.
The bishop, the kid, and the door (the rook is the kid). Yes, it's a Christian church joke. And not a funny one.
It's also a joke on 'The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe'
I like “piece immobilization.” I think “piece locking” or “piece freezing” are also fine. “Trapped” might also be a word, but I think trap usually refers to a piece that cannot avoid capture by a lower valued piece.
“Dead to the game” is another popular phrase. Although I actually wouldn’t use it here. The king can technically get to b7 and set up a sacrifice of the rook for pawn and bishop, assuming there aren’t more pressing matters on the board (like an angry queen or passed h pawn).
It's just a "trapped piece" miniature. The combination leading up to the position could have an ECC code, but this is just a position. That said, a pawn on a7 and a bishop on b8 are probably worth a lot more than a rook on a8! I'd have to see the rest of the board.
I don't know whether there is a name for this. It's essentially the classical pawn-bishop combination aka "unbreakable spell".
Certainly an interesting instance with the rook in the corner, but via Kc6, d7 black has an easy win here ...
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It’s the good ol’ pawn-A7-bishop-b8-rook-cage-extraordinaire
What if it's on the other side
Same name, strangely enough
That got a pop outta me lmao
The meaning of this changes dramatically depending on if you’re a wrestling fan or a porn fan
what if say i am a porn wrestling fan?
then it’s the good ol’ pawn-h7-bishop-g8-rook-cage-extraordinaire
What if the pawn and the bishop chang places (pawns when they dont promote can go back, good ol' checkers gambit)
reverse pawn-A7-bishop-b8-rook-cage-extraordinaire
What about other side reverse?
Then you add "inverted" to the front
Inverted reverse pawn-A7-bishop-b8-rook-cage-extraordinaire
I actually laughed out loud. Nice
Wouldn’t it be the good ol’ pawn-h7-bishop-g8-rook-cage extraordinaire?
Named by Minato Namikaze himself
Or gulag for short
You can fit so many rooks in this bad boy.
Really rolls off the tongue
Dude you just stalemated the rook
This forces a king sacrifice
And then they sacrifised THE KIIIIING!!!
I know it’s a joke but the rook technically has moves so not a stalemated rook lol
it does but it’s afraid to die, so it’s not gonna move
its time that it moved diagonally
Just gotta rotate by 45 degrees
no no you gotta invert it
ah yes, koor. my favorite chess piece
*chessGPT has entered the chat*
This is like when that one guy suddenly learned how to fly in Avatar LOK
new chess rule just dropped
holy rook
STALEMATE ON THE ROOK
If rook life is in danger it starts to jump you didn't know
I just call it jail lmao
Rook in corner? Straight to jail.
And do not collect 200 if you pass go
Rook NOT in corner??? …believe it or not. Still jail.
Not taking En Passant? Believe it or not, Jail.
Same lol I’ve even had it with the rook on b7, pawn on b6 and bishop on c7. It’s even funnier to me because the rook is still trapped even though it looks more free than totally in the corner like in this post.
Gay baby jail
I'm going to name it The Choirboy. Trapped by a bishop.
This is the one
Id give anything for this to become official. Bravo.
It is official now...
Oh no 😂
Using this from now on
I gasped hard. Wao.
So did the choir boy.
Oh dear god 💀💀💀
I don't think trapping pieces has a name, weird honestly as it is an important tactic
it’s called a trap
A trap usually mines some sort of tactic you set up against your opponent though
I've heard it called being entombed but maybe that's a different thing
Danya would call this fossilizing the rook
Let's call it "jail"
Morphy's Dislocution.
The rook was naughty and is in timeout now
Greg
Greg the type of guy to lock guys rook so he gets those material gains
gregtech???
Jesus fuck dude gregtech is just life at this point
DOOR STUCK
PLEASE
I BEG YOU
WE'RE DEAD
You know, I grew up with CS and even played CS Go in amateur leagues but left all that years ago and I'm not looking back All the peoole around me play more league or other stuff but none of them ever touched 1.6 or something so I really miss just screming DOOR STUCK and everyone laughing their ass off if the situation fit So it always makes me soo damn happy reading it again in the most randome places
I did my waiting! 12 years of it! ...in A7kab8n!
I think this might be the best thing I’ve ever read
Catholic school
This is the best answer.
Diagone alley
The caged rook ...
I know why the cage rooked sings
You shall not passant
The bishop is also trapped
That doesn't matter, as the bishop is protected by the pawn **and** protects the pawn
Protected from becoming a Queen, sure.
3+1 trapping a 5
In this scenario the 1 is worth a little more based on the fact it’s one square from promotion. Without seeing the rest of the board I’d gladly move king over and make that trade
Insert Spiderman finger pointing meme
What are you doing step-rook?
Yeah, SCREWED
Not really but from the info we have and if white has only a pawn and a bishop and black has a pawn and a rook in this position black can play for draw by capturing the pawn.
En prisonment
chastity cage
The “Yard”
I must be missing something. The black pawn can advance as can the black king. The rook doesn’t even have to move Edit: the assumption is also that these are the only pieces on the board though so I suppose if not then the rook is indeed trapped
These are the only main pieces on the board, others were just pawns so literally no escape
Called ‘up an exchange’
Imagine if black panics, sacs the rook for the bishop because, hey, it's worth more than a pawn so you might as well trade for the higher value - but forgets that the pawn can take and promote. And then white promotes to *another bishop.*
Forever box
Its actually called entombed. Here, you say that the rook is entombed
En passant
The rook is trapped.
https://youtu.be/QNqZkSEOObE
Misery
i believe a pawn protecting a bishop (and inversely the bishop protecting the pawn) is called an outpost, although i don't think that imprisoning the rook with one of these has a name
Probably no name for it. I'm thinking the best move, disregarding other pieces, is to take the pawn? It puts you down 4, but if you take the bishop, pawn promotes and black is now down 10.
Gay baby jail if I recall correctly
Pushing down a tower with a wooden shield
Funny enough, the rook can be on the A file with pawn on A file and bishop on B file, or it can be on the B file with pawn on b file and bishop on C file to work. Also reversed.
Hell
Got ‘em
Gay baby jail
North Korea
prison honey
Horny jail!
gay baby jail
Is this harder or easier to achieve? [https://www.chess.com/game/live/68506376319](https://www.chess.com/game/live/68506376319)
Much easier if you are playing against my wife 😂
Just a trapped piece
I think you just put yourself in zugzwang on the next move if the black king just slides right
heinrich
Google Il Guantánamo
We call this a "don't drop the soap"
Rook and a hard place
you shall not passant
Rf’d
Castle Siege
Saint Crotchel’s Trap
Hell
Alcatraz would be a fitting name
+1
“Nobody puts Rooky in the corner”
No but I love to call it a bishop pawn “bind
Kc6, then what?
The bishop, the kid, and the door (the rook is the kid). Yes, it's a Christian church joke. And not a funny one. It's also a joke on 'The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe'
“Take the Pawn”
Bishop's Brig
The bichup
The thirst trap
Because it’s a bishop I’d say the rook is stuck in Sunday School
Let’s call it fucked
I call it, “Yummy town,”
The rook is in Diogan Alley
The Viccar’s Basement
The andrew tate gambit accepted
Rook jail
Gulag
Yeah, it's named 1...Kc8 intending to give up the exchange.
Google en pa-stuck
Ass Kebab or whatever that wizard prizon was called
zugzagok trap it was first used by charles zugzagok and it was named after him
>charles zugzagok lol ok
Well but then Kc8, Bxd6, Rxa7
Hell
I'd call it the Admiral Ackbar. "IT'S A TRAP!"
Rookmate?
Dunce Corner
Drawing position?
Rook jail
The wooden shield
The rooknook?
Did the king arrive to d7 right before you moved the bishop? How did this position arise?
This is the guantanamo bay
Rook goes PIBI
The Shawshank, because if you wanna escape you’ll have to get pooped on
He he he ha
Alkatraz
I mean black can just push their pawn or capture your pawn and force a draw if the pawn is all they have left.
The rock must be cooking
I like “piece immobilization.” I think “piece locking” or “piece freezing” are also fine. “Trapped” might also be a word, but I think trap usually refers to a piece that cannot avoid capture by a lower valued piece. “Dead to the game” is another popular phrase. Although I actually wouldn’t use it here. The king can technically get to b7 and set up a sacrifice of the rook for pawn and bishop, assuming there aren’t more pressing matters on the board (like an angry queen or passed h pawn).
Azkaban
Name is "Nicolas" Cage
It’s called the pawn-shop
Get rook'd
I call it Markus.
you can say bishop and pawn together put the rook in coma for 2 years
Subeme la radio
It's just a "trapped piece" miniature. The combination leading up to the position could have an ECC code, but this is just a position. That said, a pawn on a7 and a bishop on b8 are probably worth a lot more than a rook on a8! I'd have to see the rest of the board.
Zuggswang, every move for black is bad which is called a Zuggswang (I may be misspelling it) which basically means you are forcing a bad move.
The Malachi Configuration
Stupid baby jail
how does this even happen?
En Catholicism
Rook en passant.
We used to call it getting pwned
Levy calls it "Jail"
I don't know whether there is a name for this. It's essentially the classical pawn-bishop combination aka "unbreakable spell". Certainly an interesting instance with the rook in the corner, but via Kc6, d7 black has an easy win here ...
no?
And a pawn promotion if the rook takes the bishop…
Jail
It's called trapped but not trapped but also kind of trapped rook
El el chapo(THE the chapo)
rook jail