Chess Puzzle

[Sorcha]

I am stuck on the chess puzzle towards the beginning of the game. I've tried various moves. but nothing has worked. Is it a glitch or am I just not understanding the puzzle, move descriptions?

[Syneios]

The game wants you to use a single chess piece to put the opposing King into check, while not putting your piece anywhere that the opposing pieces could takes yours.

[Knives]

What they said ^.
Once you've got the piece where it needs to be for checkmate you go and click on that light that pops up to submit the answer. If it was wrong it will reset the puzzle.

If you don't know chess well you can go up to the pieces on the board and click on them and it will tell you what moves they can make.

[Sorcha]

Ok that is what I've been doing, or trying to do. If either of you remember can I have a hint please, which piece do I need to use to complete the puzzle.

[Knives]

Originally posted by Sorcha:

Ok that is what I've been doing, or trying to do. If either of you remember can I have a hint please, which piece do I need to use to complete the puzzle.

So far I've seen two different puzzles... and Syneios was right, it seems it's just check, not checkmate.
The first used the Bishop, the second used the Rook.
Not sure if this would be of any help or not but I'll pop it here anyway:
https://www.chess.com/terms/chess-pieces#howthechesspiecesmove

[Wicked001]

The problem is a language translation. You don't need to "checkmate" the king. Just put him into check, in a position where the piece cannot be taken. The solution will always be outside the 8 squares adjacent to the king.
The rook moves sideways and the bishop moves diagonal. The knight moves up 2 then over 1... basically every square 2 spaces away except straight or diagonal.
Try using the knight next to the bishop, on the edge of the board.
OR the rook in a square as far from the king as you can without it being taken.

[Wicked001]

I also found a solution involving the bishop.

[Ean Alias]

Originally posted by Wicked001:

The problem is a language translation. You don't need to "checkmate" the king. Just put him into check, in a position where the piece cannot be taken.

Well that's a pretty big difference! I spent way too long trying to figure out how the hell I'm going to do it one piece checkmate on a king that has almost full mobility! This feels like revenge for the fact that most American games have notoriously bad euro-translations.

[AingealWroth]

Make sure if you think it's the right answer that the chess pieces is very centered. I just spent 30m thinking I was doing this wrong to find that the piece had been offcenter enough it didn't count it the first time TT.TT