Congratulations. One thing that will make these posts better if comments and explanations are added. Info like what you were thinking, what tactical/positional themes were you using, what mistakes did your opponent make? See various posts in this forum by greenpawn34, he is a master at it.
Ok, I'll bite: I, playing White, got into a position in which a famous mate is possible involving a queen sac and a lone knight delivers the coup de grace. My opponent resigned before the axe fell. From the final position: if 29. ... K-N1; then 30. N-R6 double and discovered check, K-R1; 31. Q-N8+!!, RxQ (forced); 32. N-B7 mate. 29. ... RxN merely postpones the inevitable. White continues 30. QxR, B-B1; 31. P-Q5, Q-N3 or Q-B2; 32. P-K6 and Black's position is untenable.
Originally posted by Tygert Everyone I have decided to create a thread on which you can post weird and wonderful checkmates of yours. I'll start.[pgn][Event "Clan challenge"]
[Site "http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com"]
[Date "2013.06.06"]
[EndDate "2013.06.19"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Beeny"]
[Black "Tygert"]
[WhiteRating "1398"]
[BlackRating "1449"]
[WhiteElo "1398"]
[BlackElo "1 Ra1xe1 Re8xe1 22. Kg1f2 Rd8e8 23. Bb6xa7 Ng3h1 0-1[/pgn]
I'm black.
Originally posted by MontyMoose Congratulations. One thing that will make these posts better if comments and explanations are added. Info like what you were thinking, what tactical/positional themes were you using, what mistakes did your opponent make? See various posts in this forum by greenpawn34, he is a master at it.
I know... I love watching his games simply for the comments. I don't know how though. I'll ask him.
Originally posted by moonbus Ok, I'll bite: I, playing White, got into a position in which a famous mate is possible involving a queen sac and a lone knight delivers the coup de grace. My opponent resigned before the axe fell. From the final position: if 29. ... K-N1; then 30. N-R6 double and discovered check, K-R1; 31. Q-N8+!!, RxQ (forced); 32. N-B7 mate. 29. ... RxN merely postpones ...[text shortened]... h8 26. Nb1a3 c5 27. Na3c4 Qb6c6 28. Nc4d6 Bg5e7 29. Nd6xf7 1-0[/pgn]
That's really cool and it's one of my favourite mating patterns. Glad to finally see a case study of it.
Originally posted by Tygert That's really cool and it's one of my favourite mating patterns. Glad to finally see a case study of it.
Yes, it is a beautiful mating net; on every schoolboy's "required reading list". I published annotations: Game 9884339 -- clearly Black blundered away a N on move 21, as RJH noted. My opponent, Mike Ivan, is a tricky player who sometimes punches above his weight--he once checkmated a 2000+ player in a tourney here at RHP.
Originally posted by moonbus Yes, it is a beautiful mating net; on every schoolboy's "required reading list". I published annotations: Game 9884339 -- clearly Black blundered away a N on move 21, as RJH noted. My opponent, Mike Ivan, is a tricky player who sometimes punches above his weight--he once checkmated a 2000+ player in a tourney here at RHP.
Hey everyone, how do you add an annotated game to this forum?
How to add annotations to a forum post? I dunno. Ask GP34.
Annotating a game you have already finished is easy; go to "My Games" and click the "annotation" button. What I have not figured out is how to get the annotations into a thread such as this one.
Originally posted by moonbus How to add annotations to a forum post? I dunno. Ask GP34.
Annotating a game you have already finished is easy; go to "My Games" and click the "annotation" button. What I have not figured out is how to get the annotations into a thread such as this one.
[ pgn ]
[FEN "8/8/k7/8/K7/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
1.Ka3 { insert your comment in the curly braces like so } Ka7 { And the players finally agreed to a draw }
[ /pgn ]
1. Nc3 Nf6 2. e4 d6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. Nge2 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. d3 O-O 8. f4 Bg4 9. h3 Bxe2 10. Qxe2 Rb8 11. Be3 Qd7 12. Kh2 b5 13. e5 dxe5 14. fxe5 Nxe5 15. Bxc5 b4 16. Ne4 Nxe4 17. Qxe4 a5 18. Rae1 Rfd8 19. Be3 Rbc8 20. Re2 f5 { Too bad. I wanted ...Nf7 and ...e5 but needed to stop Bb6 first. } 21. Qf4 Nf7 22. Bb6 Re8 23. Bxa5 e5 24. Qd2 Bf8 25. Bxb4 Bxb4 26. Qxb4 Rb8 27. Qc3 Rec8 28. Qa3 Ra8 { ??? } 29. Bxa8 f4 { Oh well. At least now I can go for my attack without the distraction of maintaining material parity. } 30. Be4 fxg3+ 31. Kg2 Ng5 { I was going to do this either way, so he probably should have just taken the g3 pawn. } 32. Rh1 Ne6 33. Qb3 Kg7 34. Re3 { I bet now he REALLY wished he'd taken g3. } 34... Nd4 { I see a better move than ...Nf4+. The R is breaking in @ c2 and white's in trouble. } 35. Qd5 Rxc2+ 36. Kxg3 Nf5+ { Taking advantage of the overworked B on e4. } 37. Kf3 Nh4+ 38. Kg3 Qe7 { black finds the one entry point white can't defend. } 39. Qb7 Nf5+ { ! I was proud of this move, redeploying the N and freeing h4 for the Q before the obligatory pin-break with ...Rc7. } 40. Kf3 Rc7 41. Qb6 { The Q has trouble finding a useful square. This definitely isn't it as now she can only watch her K get taken from afar. } 41... Nd4+ 42. Kg4 { White insists on being pushed to f2, which I'm glad to do. } 42... h5+ 43. Kg3 Qg5+ 44. Kf2 Qh4+ 45. Kg1 { 45.Rg3 Rc2+ also sucked. } 45... Rc1+ 46. Kh2 Rc2+ 47. Bg2 { Pin #1 } 47... Qf4+ 48. Rg3 { Pin #2 } 48... Nf3# { mate } *
Beautiful Checkmates
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