You'd think, what with it being correspondance chess and all, I'd have plenty of time to spot mate-in-one. But yet again, I completely missed it: Game 862298, Fritz tells me correctly that 23. Qb8 would be mate, instead I moved Qc7 and needed another move to get it. In Game 848423 not only did I work out various mates that'd take up to 6 moves but I even sent my opponent a message giving a couple of them (I didn't ask the gent to resign, if an opponent would like to play a foregone conclusion that's his perogative, but generally the quicker one game's over, the quicker you can have a rematch), only for Fritz to yet again point out that I had mate in one. Game 831839 I thought I was in a reasonably good position, was about to remove his knight, only to completely ignore the backrank mate he won the game with. How on earth do I keep missing these things?
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Originally posted by shortgoth1Possibly not doing your own after game analysis?
You'd think, what with it being correspondance chess and all, I'd have plenty of time to spot mate-in-one. But yet again, I completely missed it: Game 862298, Fritz tells me correctly that 23. Qb8 would be mate, instead I moved Qc7 and needed another move to get it. In Game 848423 not only did I work out various mates that'd take up to 6 mo ...[text shortened]... the backrank mate he won the game with. How on earth do I keep missing these things?
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If you let fritz do it you get lazy after a while.....believe me I know :-)
I think if you are missing mates at 1400 you want to start counting the number of flight squares the king has. You will spot mate and mate combinations better this way. I