Apparently she needed a draw to qualify for the next round and so went for a perpetual.
Here is a picture of how she looked after 57. ... Qxa5
http://tinyurl.com/mnc6tus
(the 2007 refers to her rating - after this game FIDE held a special meeting and stripped her of nearly 400 rating points for bringing the game into disrepute).
Originally posted by Data Fly Apparently she needed a draw to qualify for the next round and so went for a perpetual.
Here is a picture of how she looked after 57. ... Qxa5
http://tinyurl.com/mnc6tus
(the 2007 refers to her rating - after this game FIDE held a special meeting and stripped her of nearly 400 rating points for bringing the game into disrepute).
They didn't really do that did they? As blunders go it's pretty spectacular, just because it both misses mate and drops the queen, but I can dig games out by all the great names where they've done something dappy. This is Karpov - Christiansen, Wijk aan Zee, 1993:
It's the kind of thing you see in blitz.
A player instead of mating in one hangs their Queen.
I've found some RHP examples that come close.
Sadly missing mate in one is not uncommon on here
and neither is hanging a Queen but not together in
the space of one move. But I'm sure I'll find one.
[FEN "3Q4/kb6/8/1P6/8/6P1/5P2/4qBK1 w - - 0 57"] 57. Qd4 Ka8 58. Qd8 Ka7 {And the mate is on again} 59. Qd4 Kb8 {Black can avoid the checkmating position } 60. Qd8 Bc8 61. Qb6 Ka8 62. Qc6 Kb8 {Not Ka7 when white has b6+} 63. Qb6 Bb7 64. Qd8 Ka7 {Black will play Bc8 and allow the perpetual as trying to go here gets us to the original position and then white might find the right move which is:} 65. b6
anyone look at 9.Nb3 in the blunder of the year game, looks like another blunder after ...c4 forking knight and bishop but its in fact a very brilliant and deep move.
20 Mar '15 13:54
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