Check! Ulp! I thought you were supposed to be good at this game! I'm beating you so easily, it's not even fun! Really? Well, then, by all means, Gina, let me make it a little more enjoyable for you. GAK! Checkmate.
Actually, Nate (almost certainly) can’t DO that. If he’s in check, he must get out of check before he can check her. Which it doesn’t look like he did.
Actually Nate could put Gina into checkmate simply by taking the piece that had him in check. I’ve been on the receiving end of something like that a couple of times.
YES YES GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN YOUR FACE< YA STININIG STUCK UP GINA!!!!!!!!!!!! but i really thought that she would win, actually. She seemed better. BUT THEN NATE CRUSHED HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to go Nate. You did not let your opponent distract you from the game, nor did you let her intimidate you. Again, you came through under pressure to succeed. However, if you would apply yourself at least 50% of the time, you would not need to be under pressure.
Moving out of check and mating at the same time is not only possible, but not even especially unlikely. Opening yourself up for a check is an ideal way to lure your opponent into making the penultimate move that completes your trap.
Bet tommorow Gina will ask Nate ‘’HOW ON EARTH WERE YOU ABLE TO WIN?’’ or “THAT DIDN”T COUNT!!!!!!! I HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DESERVE A REMATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is possible to checkmate your opponent like that, but it is fairly easy for many people to not make that mistake. If Gina really is good at chess, she would have been able to avoid a mistake like that. Still a funny comic strip. She had it coming!
Almost to a hundrd+ comments today! this has happened twice so far: once in 1998 (when Jenny asked Nate to go to the dance with her) and when Chad won the baseball game this year on August 17, 2012
WHOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCREWED UP!!!!!! THAT LAST ONE WAS A HUNDERED!!!!!!!!!! SORRY!!!!!!!!!But his comic really does make Bignate history by being one the of the only ones to get a hundered comments and NATE CRUSHING GINA LIKE THAT IS EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO NATE!
NATE WON YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@wcorviTechnically Nate could’ve taken the piece threatening his king and gotten a checkmate at the same time. Though is this is the case Gina’s an awful chess player.
And I don’t understand folks like rollsroyce. We are all well aware that this is a cartoon rollsroyce. Can’t someone make a comment or a tech. point about something without being jumped on.
I have lots of experience in chess and I know that it’s really rare for something like this to happen, mainly because the person (in this case Gina) would be smart enough to know not to do a move like that.
torn newspaper about 12 years ago
YES!
NATE IS GREAT about 12 years ago
YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!
wcorvi about 12 years ago
Actually, Nate (almost certainly) can’t DO that. If he’s in check, he must get out of check before he can check her. Which it doesn’t look like he did.
aflhc1984 about 12 years ago
Yay! Go Nate! =)
DiscipleOfFire about 12 years ago
PWNED
hometownk Premium Member about 12 years ago
I guess I don’t understand chess that much, either.
twstd about 12 years ago
YESSSSSSSSSS
kullyrai about 12 years ago
I was just waiting for that smile. The kind of smile he has when he has just played the perfect prankday prank…
Stray about 12 years ago
Actually Nate could put Gina into checkmate simply by taking the piece that had him in check. I’ve been on the receiving end of something like that a couple of times.
lisajwalton about 12 years ago
ZING!!!!!!!!!
oregontransplant about 12 years ago
Nate is that good i have known that for years.
tqnism about 12 years ago
Well done!
There just has to be something Nate is better than Gina. Useful for both on them.
prasrinivara about 12 years ago
A (momentarily) nice denouement (before Gina shills about Nate cheating).
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
YES YES GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IN YOUR FACE< YA STININIG STUCK UP GINA!!!!!!!!!!!! but i really thought that she would win, actually. She seemed better. BUT THEN NATE CRUSHED HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QuietStorm27 about 12 years ago
Yay!
I'll fly away about 12 years ago
Yeehaw!!!for Nate,
anderson5 about 12 years ago
I challange Nate to a mach!
Plods with ...™ about 12 years ago
Woohoo!!! You go Nate!!!
roblox605 about 12 years ago
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy
chuck_henebry about 12 years ago
Smart response, Stray9999!
jsellison about 12 years ago
They’re going to laugh about this, when they’re married in 20 years.
COMIC-ER about 12 years ago
Ha-HAAAAAA…..
Michael Goff Premium Member about 12 years ago
All week long I was hoping this wasn’t going to be a Lucy-Charlie Brown kicking the football moment. Thank you for a great payoff!
no_body_special about 12 years ago
YES!!! If Gina, whom I absolutely hate, won I would have been so upset. Nate Is Still The Reigning Champion!!! Except Artur, but I don’t hate him.
tabipapa about 12 years ago
who didn’t see that one coming?
ArfArf88 about 12 years ago
Pride comes before a fall.Gina should have seen the checkmate in the next move.
TArbiter about 12 years ago
Bang! Zoom! To the moon, Gina! ahahahahahah!
Tue Elung-Jensen about 12 years ago
P a w n e d :D. Win win for Nate.
wwh85cp about 12 years ago
SANDBAGGED!
Rude, pushy Gina overcome by, well, rude, pushy Nate.
Still, what form, what grace, what irony, what… What?
Yes, I’ll shut up now.
tburger49 about 12 years ago
duanedjh about 12 years ago
YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
duanedjh about 12 years ago
Wcorvi – he could have moved a piece in front of the king to block the check, or even moved the King to force the mate.
Timothy Madigan Premium Member about 12 years ago
@wcorvi @Stray
Or he could move a piece to block the check that even opens up a piece for checkmate or the moved piece puts the opposing king into mate.
De_Faulto about 12 years ago
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yes!!!!!!! You rock Nate!!!
kaecispopX about 12 years ago
Way to go Nate. You did not let your opponent distract you from the game, nor did you let her intimidate you. Again, you came through under pressure to succeed. However, if you would apply yourself at least 50% of the time, you would not need to be under pressure.
feralglance about 12 years ago
There’s the Nate we know and love.
ncalifgirl58 about 12 years ago
Yeah!!! Thanks Mr. Peirce. You made my day. The look on Nate’s face is priceless. Happy Thursday all.
billdi Premium Member about 12 years ago
well played Nate – you set her up for a most ignominious fall
dratini_dragonheart about 12 years ago
I like how he has the pinky up while he does it.
iharr1 about 12 years ago
Cool!
asklud about 12 years ago
Nate pulled the perfect set-up by pretending he was scared to face Gina, just to do exactly what he did… Sweet!
route66paul about 12 years ago
Sorry, but by attacking the chess piece that has him in check, it is possible that opened up a line of attack that might be a checkmate.
I have seen traps like that.
barryj35967 about 12 years ago
Hurrah, down with the junior feminazi!
Comic Minister Premium Member about 12 years ago
Wow!! Is this true? Did he really beat Gina?
ComicBigNateGarfieldCharlieBrownArchie about 12 years ago
UYEYEYSYEYYXS CHEXXN DKFPOEL
grendel25 about 12 years ago
Oh YES! Nate totally played her (and his friends). I’ve never commented on a comic before, but this deserves a standing O!!!
byamrcn about 12 years ago
Sweeeeeet…….the suck-up goes down hard.
Now where are those folks who complain that Nate loses all the time?
tbritt99 about 12 years ago
PWNED!!
Rickapolis about 12 years ago
I TOLD you he’d mate her in 23 moves.
Potrzebie about 12 years ago
OK WHOM HAS THE WINS/LOSSES TALLY FOR THE YEAR?!
Rush Strong Premium Member about 12 years ago
Moving out of check and mating at the same time is not only possible, but not even especially unlikely. Opening yourself up for a check is an ideal way to lure your opponent into making the penultimate move that completes your trap.
NightHawk2005 about 12 years ago
Yep, saw that coming. Disappointing.
madvirgo about 12 years ago
Actually, I was hoping Gina would win, Nate would quietly reflect, congratulate her—then give her a big, wet one on the lips…
BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 12 years ago
Nate Nate Nate, Gooo Nate!! Good one, love seeing the beeotch get knocked down a peg or two.
hariseldon59 about 12 years ago
To quote Luke Skywalker, Gina, your overconfidence is your weakness.
calvinsfriend110 about 12 years ago
Yes!
GROG Premium Member about 12 years ago
Nate plays as an inspiring game of ches as Capt. Kirk.
Srover about 12 years ago
I thought I’d have to wait six months to see this. Thanks
CougarAllen about 12 years ago
Yes, it is possible, and it’s also possible that several moves went by during this conversation (which is the way I read it).-Cougar :{)
The#1BoiseStateFan about 12 years ago
I knew it, Gina made the check ALMOST perfectly, but Nate saw that in the 2nd one that he would win. You’re screwed, Gina.
carhop about 12 years ago
Love it!
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
Bet tommorow Gina will ask Nate ‘’HOW ON EARTH WERE YOU ABLE TO WIN?’’ or “THAT DIDN”T COUNT!!!!!!! I HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DESERVE A REMATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Screaming Blobs about 12 years ago
It is possible to checkmate your opponent like that, but it is fairly easy for many people to not make that mistake. If Gina really is good at chess, she would have been able to avoid a mistake like that. Still a funny comic strip. She had it coming!
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
Almost to a hundrd+ comments today! this has happened twice so far: once in 1998 (when Jenny asked Nate to go to the dance with her) and when Chad won the baseball game this year on August 17, 2012
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
100 COMMENTS ARE COMING SOON AND I WILL SET THIS ONE!!!!!!!! BWA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
ONLY A FEW
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
MORE
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
UNTILL I
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
REACH THE
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
TRIPLE DIGITS
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
FOR BIG NATE COMMENTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
ALMOST
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
THERE………
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
ONLY ONE MORE!!!!!!! ONLY ONE MORE!!!!!!!!!!! NEXT ONE IS COMMENT 100!!!!!
Screaming Blobs about 12 years ago
Tripple digits
big nate yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy about 12 years ago
WHOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCREWED UP!!!!!! THAT LAST ONE WAS A HUNDERED!!!!!!!!!! SORRY!!!!!!!!!But his comic really does make Bignate history by being one the of the only ones to get a hundered comments and NATE CRUSHING GINA LIKE THAT IS EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO NATE!
Screaming Blobs about 12 years ago
TRIPLE oops
kenivlikesbignate about 12 years ago
YES!
anderson5 about 12 years ago
my sister failed at spelling match. LOL
lisa-lisa-pizza about 12 years ago
Yes!
BigNate+CalvinandHobbes=:) about 12 years ago
BOO YEAH
BigNate+CalvinandHobbes=:) about 12 years ago
NATE WON YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nateiscool!! about 12 years ago
gina did not see that coming.
Atrius5000 about 12 years ago
Niiiiice. Way to go, Nate!
cookies333 about 12 years ago
Good job Nate! : )
x47humanoid about 12 years ago
@wcorviTechnically Nate could’ve taken the piece threatening his king and gotten a checkmate at the same time. Though is this is the case Gina’s an awful chess player.
ronpolimeni about 12 years ago
And I don’t understand folks like rollsroyce. We are all well aware that this is a cartoon rollsroyce. Can’t someone make a comment or a tech. point about something without being jumped on.
GregoriusM about 12 years ago
OK, the number of comments here is starting to get crazy…
Screaming Blobs about 12 years ago
I have lots of experience in chess and I know that it’s really rare for something like this to happen, mainly because the person (in this case Gina) would be smart enough to know not to do a move like that.
Screaming Blobs about 12 years ago
Has anyone here played in a real chess tournament?
NightHawk2005 about 12 years ago
Is that all you have to say?
Comicdog135 about 12 years ago
AWSOME!
comicsfannate about 12 years ago
Sha-Biggity-BAMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
tunextgeneration about 12 years ago
actually you can do that if you kill the piece threatening your king. that’s probably what he did.
snoopy323 almost 12 years ago
nate had a trollface….
Cabeman1099 over 11 years ago
Grab a napkin Gina, you just got served
billy2609 over 11 years ago
i kenw it nate just had to be better at something
emilychloestella over 11 years ago
wiped that insufferable smirk off her pompus face!
Crusader4 about 11 years ago
yay!138th comment!
peachispie about 11 years ago
i love their faces in the last panel… priceless
Sonicx79 almost 11 years ago
Thank The Lord
Sonicx79 almost 11 years ago
This is the 139th comment
Comisftw over 10 years ago
Dat smile
Tater over 10 years ago
NATE WON!
Tater over 10 years ago
Great job, Nate!
Hello.hello about 8 years ago
So.. was his cowardliness just a cover or what?
MarleyStelter over 7 years ago
That face in last the panel
Chad Applewhite over 7 years ago
YES!!! I WAS GETTING WORRIED, BUT NATE BEAT GINA!!! Nate’s face in panel 4 is just priceless. Excuse me while I add this to my favorites…
srijanoduru9 over 7 years ago
the expressions in this panel are priceless
♞нυитєявσу_z♘ over 6 years ago
Gina may be more brainier than Nate, but he can beat Gina in a round of chess!
ProcatTheawesome over 6 years ago
Comeback! But he can’t do that in chess! He has to move out of check first.
Swayamplays about 6 years ago
My brother’s 2nd birthday
Swayamplays about 6 years ago
my bros 2nd birthday
TheBrawlKing about 5 years ago
notice how nate’s facial expression goes from very scared to very smug over the cource of the strip
ComicFan4Life almost 5 years ago
Now I OFFICIALLY think he was faking all of those struggles
Pig111 over 4 years ago
Buuuurrrnnn
Boba Fett about 4 years ago
big playzzz
eipxrhS about 4 years ago
That smugness on Nate’s face.
Moonie almost 4 years ago
That is the weirdest nate face ever
SamuelZhao over 3 years ago
Me at first No Me 3 panels later Tes
Karlismymiddlename over 3 years ago
GREATEST big nate comic OF ALL TIME!!!!!!
FuriosoTheDog over 3 years ago
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
Nadine Wright over 3 years ago
Give peirce a break he knew nothing about chess when he make those strips
4300260681 about 3 years ago
OOOOHHHHH YEAH, NATE!!!!!!!
Dumb Dancin' Spitzy [Eats Lawn Mower]:) about 3 years ago
YES!
Scalenplayz almost 3 years ago
YEET!
Balto Kirigaya almost 3 years ago
R.E.K.T
I have no social life over 2 years ago
YEAHHH NATE!!
Yoriichi over 2 years ago
LET’S GOOO, NATE IS THE MOST CHAMPION CHESS PLAYER!!!!!
Crazy Comics over 1 year ago
Noice Nate
minotaur25 about 1 year ago
I love Nate’s expression in the last panel.
sigmaohioskibidi 8 months ago
treat me like my t dont do e dirty
maneater about 2 months ago
bro look at his face