this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Can a chess expert tell us which side would be favored in this situation? Assuming checkmate for the black side would be checkmating the knight that starts on black’s king square.
Someone could throw it into Stockfish and see what it starts with.
Put into the board editor in lichess (with a king in e8) and eval was about -30.
Is negative, good?
Positive is in white's favor, negative is in black's favor. -30 is roughly equivalent to black having a 30 point material advantage over white.
How few rooks would it take to be about even?