02 Mar 07
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After reading about some of the great wins in under 20 moves in another thread, I thought that is might be worth having a thread dedicated to those even earlier mates. This could be a valuable thread for learning as it could point to flawed openings and less well known traps in the opening.
I'll start the ball rolling with game that demonstrated the dangers of playing the Damiano Defence as Black.
Game 2919000
02 Mar 07
Originally posted by onyx2006But this is not a checkmate, is it? As the thread title says?
6 moves against a 1600+ player...
Game 2152635
02 Mar 07
Here is one I enjoyed. Not really a trap so much, I didn't play my moves with intent of checkmate until the last 2 or 3, at first I was just trying to find the best moves, and he wasn't.
Game 2159583
02 Mar 07
Originally posted by HindsteinGame 2426548
This is a great smothered mate trap.
I think it is called the Blackburne Shilling Gambit - named after a GM called Blackburne, who used to trap cafe visitors with this line for a shilling a time.
Another example of Smaugs mate😉
03 Mar 07
The post that was quoted here has been removedIt's called the Blackburne Shilling mate. "Graham Burgess calls 3...Nd4 the "Oh My God" trap." 😵 "3...Nd4 is sometimes known as the Kostic Gambit, named after the Serbian grandmaster who played it in the early part of the 20th century."
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/shilling.htm