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LEGAL'S MATE

Continuing from my last post, this is another sort of checkmate your opponent can fall into. 

Hope you enjoy! 


LEGAL'S MATE

This checkmate is a chess trap from the Philidor's defense. It was named after the French player, Sire De Legal. The white sacrifices their queen when fighting towards a checkmate. But at the end, black loses and white wins the game. Here is a video to perform this checkmate.




Below are the step by step moves to perform this checkmate..

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WHITE WINS!!😎

Hope you guys will try this  out on your chessboard and have learnt a lot from this post! ☺
                                                                                                                          
                           



                                             






















































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