An interesting game I played OTB

Hey,

I really enjoyed playing this game the other night, so thought I'd share.

Firstly, find the mate in 5 for white from this position.


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And now the game...

Black's strategy was to dominate the dark diagonal. Whites (mine) was to try to punish black's lack of development and accept the loss of the exchange for black's important dark bishop. Allowing the pushing of the pawn and not castling was part of this risky strategy.

I like how defense was of the counter attacking kind. Black should have won, but a very weak move was his undoing

Originally posted by Ragnorak
Hey,

I really enjoyed playing this game the other night, so thought I'd share.

Firstly, find the mate in 5 for white from this position.
[fen]rn6/pp2Q2p/6pk/8/P1P2P2/1q2p1P1/4N1KP/7R w - - 0 25[/fen]

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Originally posted by Cimon
1.Qf8+ Kh5 2.g4+ Kxg4 (2...Kh4 3.Qh6+ Kxh4 4.Qg5(h3)# ) 3.h3+ Kh5 ( 3...Kh4 4.Qh6# ) 4.Ng3+ Kh4 5.Qh6#

Originally posted by Cimon
1.Qf8+ Kh5 2.g4+ Kxg4 (2...Kh4 3.Qh6+ Kxh4 4.Qg5(h3)# ) 3.h3+ Kh5 ( 3...Kh4 4.Qh6# ) 4.Ng3+ Kh4 5.Qh6#

Isn't it mate in 4? I don't quite get what's wrong with the immediate 28. Qh3#.

Originally posted by schakuhr
Isn't it mate in 4? I don't quite get what's wrong with the immediate 28. Qh3#.

Originally posted by Ragnorak
Wow. Mates everywhere. There's another forced one with a different first move.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
And now the game...

Black's strategy was to dominate the dark diagonal. Whites (mine) was to try to punish black's lack of development and accept the loss of the exchange for black's important dark bishop. Allowing the pushing of the pawn and not castling was part of this risky strategy.

I like how defense was of the counter attacking kind. Black sh ...[text shortened]... + Kg7 24. Qe7+ Kh6 25. g4 Nc6 26. g5+ Kh5 27. Qxh7+
Kg4 28. Qd7+ Kh5 29. Qh3# *
[/pgn]

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