Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for October 11, 2012

YES!

YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

Yay! Go Nate! =)

PWNED

I guess I don’t understand chess that much, either.

YESSSSSSSSSS

I was just waiting for that smile. The kind of smile he has when he has just played the perfect prankday prank…

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.

ZING!!!!!!!!!

Nate is that good i have known that for years.

Well done!

There just has to be something Nate is better than Gina. Useful for both on them.

A (momentarily) nice denouement (before Gina shills about Nate cheating).

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!

Yeehaw!!!for Nate,

I challange Nate to a mach!

Woohoo!!! You go Nate!!!

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Smart response, Stray9999!

They’re going to laugh about this, when they’re married in 20 years.

Ha-HAAAAAA…..

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!

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.

who didn’t see that one coming?

Pride comes before a fall.Gina should have seen the checkmate in the next move.

Bang! Zoom! To the moon, Gina! ahahahahahah!

P a w n e d :D. Win win for Nate.

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.

YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

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.

@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.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yes!!!!!!! You rock Nate!!!

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.

There’s the Nate we know and love.

Yeah!!! Thanks Mr. Peirce. You made my day. The look on Nate’s face is priceless. Happy Thursday all.

well played Nate – you set her up for a most ignominious fall

I like how he has the pinky up while he does it.

Cool!

Nate pulled the perfect set-up by pretending he was scared to face Gina, just to do exactly what he did… Sweet!

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.

Hurrah, down with the junior feminazi!

Wow!! Is this true? Did he really beat Gina?

UYEYEYSYEYYXS CHEXXN DKFPOEL

Oh YES! Nate totally played her (and his friends). I’ve never commented on a comic before, but this deserves a standing O!!!

Sweeeeeet…….the suck-up goes down hard.

Now where are those folks who complain that Nate loses all the time?

PWNED!!

I TOLD you he’d mate her in 23 moves.

OK WHOM HAS THE WINS/LOSSES TALLY FOR THE YEAR?!

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.

Yep, saw that coming. Disappointing.

Actually, I was hoping Gina would win, Nate would quietly reflect, congratulate her—then give her a big, wet one on the lips…

Nate Nate Nate, Gooo Nate!! Good one, love seeing the beeotch get knocked down a peg or two.

To quote Luke Skywalker, Gina, your overconfidence is your weakness.

Yes!

Nate plays as an inspiring game of ches as Capt. Kirk.

I thought I’d have to wait six months to see this. Thanks

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 :{)

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.

Love it!

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

100 COMMENTS ARE COMING SOON AND I WILL SET THIS ONE!!!!!!!! BWA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!

ONLY A FEW

MORE

UNTILL I

REACH THE

TRIPLE DIGITS

FOR BIG NATE COMMENTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALMOST

THERE………

ONLY ONE MORE!!!!!!! ONLY ONE MORE!!!!!!!!!!! NEXT ONE IS COMMENT 100!!!!!

Tripple digits

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!

TRIPLE oops

YES!

my sister failed at spelling match. LOL

Yes!

BOO YEAH

NATE WON YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gina did not see that coming.

Niiiiice. Way to go, Nate!

Good job Nate! : )

@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.

OK, the number of comments here is starting to get crazy…

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.

Has anyone here played in a real chess tournament?

Is that all you have to say?

AWSOME!

Sha-Biggity-BAMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!

actually you can do that if you kill the piece threatening your king. that’s probably what he did.

nate had a trollface….

Grab a napkin Gina, you just got served

i kenw it nate just had to be better at something

wiped that insufferable smirk off her pompus face!

yay!138th comment!

i love their faces in the last panel… priceless

Thank The Lord

This is the 139th comment

Dat smile

NATE WON!

Great job, Nate!

So.. was his cowardliness just a cover or what?

That face in last the panel

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…

the expressions in this panel are priceless

Gina may be more brainier than Nate, but he can beat Gina in a round of chess!

Comeback! But he can’t do that in chess! He has to move out of check first.

My brother’s 2nd birthday

my bros 2nd birthday

notice how nate’s facial expression goes from very scared to very smug over the cource of the strip

Now I OFFICIALLY think he was faking all of those struggles

Buuuurrrnnn

big playzzz

That smugness on Nate’s face.

That is the weirdest nate face ever

Me at first No Me 3 panels later Tes

GREATEST big nate comic OF ALL TIME!!!!!!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

Give peirce a break he knew nothing about chess when he make those strips

OOOOHHHHH YEAH, NATE!!!!!!!

YES!

YEET!

R.E.K.T

YEAHHH NATE!!

LET’S GOOO, NATE IS THE MOST CHAMPION CHESS PLAYER!!!!!

Noice Nate

I love Nate’s expression in the last panel.

treat me like my t dont do e dirty

bro look at his face