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One thing that amused me was one commercial where an older man and a boy were playing chess.
Older man (makes move): Check
Boy (makes move): Checkmate.
Now I won’t say such an exchange is impossible, but it strikes me as highly unlikely. The boy’s move would have to block the piece that was attacking his king and at the same time attack the opposing king so that the king couldn’t escape. You might be able to come up with a situation that fits, but the odds of it happening in the course of two players of even novice ability seem very long.
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It’s definitely not highly unlikely, at least in my case. My father regularly beat me because I would play a highly aggressive attack strategy and totally ignore what was happening to my king. I’d do something like put my queen on the same diagonal as his king, only to have him take my queen with his knight, simulatenously mating me.
Of course, my father was about 100x the chess player I was. In the commercial, it’s supposed to be funny because the kid is obviously the better player