Hate to double-post but this one was also completed today... this one in particular had a pretty satisfying end 🙂
Admittedly there was some questionable play by white... he/she was provisionally rated, so perhaps relatively new to the game?
I would like to point out that the castling on move 17 was purely to allow white to take my bishop on g4...
because that then enabled the neat mate in 2 that I saw 🙂
Originally posted by WanderingKingGood job... for white's move 12, would you say it was one pawn move too many?
[pgn]1.g3 e5
2.Bg2 Nf6
3.d3 d5
4.Nc3 c5
5.e3 Nc6
6.f4 e4
7.Nce2 exd3
8.cxd3 Be7
9.e4 O-O
10.e5 Ng4
11.h3 Nh6
12.g4 Bh4+
13.Kf1 Qb6
14.b3 c4
15.Qd2 Qf2#[/pgn]
White was asking for trouble anyway... I often deter from moving my king-side pawns unless really necessary
Originally posted by 64squaresofpainI agree, I think after that move I would have won that game no matter what. At my level, I'm usually able to win once I've made contact with my opponent's king, and my king is safe. It's the quiet positions that I'm totally unable to deal with -- I usually have no idea what to do after I've taken all my pieces out and there's nothing obvious to attack.
Good job... for white's move 12, would you say it was one pawn move too many?
White was asking for trouble anyway... I often deter from moving my king-side pawns unless really necessary
As for the king-side pawns, I will push them sometimes even though I know it's probably not best objectively.I do it when I see my opponent is underdeveloped and I believe my king is still rather safe. I lose those games sometimes, but sometimes I get effective wins. And there's always a chance for a perpetual if things go wrong.
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I was going through an old score book recently containing games I played over twenty years ago. Most of them were pretty dire, but I was pleased with the two tic-tacs I found in this one:
Of course strictly speaking it would only have qualified for this thread if White had obliged with 18. Qxb7, allowing 18. ... Ne7#. Instead, faced with the prospect of playing on a piece down and with the queens swapped off, he resigned.
