DC Comics Cheat On Their Chess Covers.
By on 25 Feb 25 16:20
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Huh!...Not only have they lazily re-jigged the picture with the same position...
...they have the board round the wrong way.
Also I do not think any of the characters portrayed in these comics are actually real.
This week a few positions from RHP games where instructive and really should
be known mating patterns and ideas have been either missed or wrongly executed.
fogie - jaycocamper RHP 2011 (two solutions required.)
White played 23. h6 and went onto win 10 moves later. White has checkmate
using two common mating patterns. The two solutions to this one are below.
jean bon saint andre - Pi3 RHP 2011 (Blackburne’s Mate)
White played 23.Bc1 and went on, rather fortunately, to win.
Now play the mate that Black can only delay for a few moves.
Next. I really did not think I’d find any examples. Sadly I found a few,
I’ll give just two. When you have a open Rook file v a castled King and
a pawn on g3 or g6 then always, on every move look at Rh8+ or Rh1+
baersinohio - mirror warrior RHP 2020
White played 20.Nh4 and lost. The answer is after the next position.
WillieNelson (1505) - tecnowelsh19 RHP 2019
Black played 19...Qh7 and went onto lose. They should have played...
If DC Comics can get away with it then so can I....
Yes! I have re-touched a graphic I used in the Ding Liren - Gukesh match.
Since 2010 Very Rusty and ZorroTheFox have played each other over 200 times.
Without going into all the details both have won over 80 games each, the rest drawn.
This could be some kind of record for here. I looked at a few games. They are OK
and I knew I would pick up some Blog Fodder. I quickly found two games where each
player blundered into checkmate in one, ‘There but for the grace of God go I’ positions.
Very Rusty - ZorroTheFox RHP 2018
ZorroTheFox - Very Rusty RHP 2009
fogie - jaycocamper RHP 2011 The Morphy Mate.
23.Rxg7+ Kxg7 24. Rg8+ Kxg8 24. Rg1 Mate and the other and most common way to mate is;
The thread accompanying this blog is Thread 202094
