Checkmate on your own back rank

Checkmate on your own back rank

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h
Hopeless romantic

The sticks

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This is a first for me: I've managed to persuade my opponent's king all the way across the board to be mated. It's a blitz game so it doesn't really count. Does anyone have any "proper" examples from their RHP or OTB collections?

e4

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Good. But why names. Does the RHP blitz screen stop names.
I've no idea - I cannot get on there....

.....I'll try again.

No - fail. Obvioulsy some upgrade is required and I never upgrade if
things are working - OK it means but I cannot see some Youtube things
but that not a big deal. I get my blitz fix on game knot.

Not a King Hunt - I'll find one on RHP for you. Just a swindle. I'm Black.
Names in the header.

DF

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This one, played over a hundred years ago, is very famous:



The amazing Edward Winter has actually managed to find Lasker's scoresheet of this game:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/laskerthomas.html

h
Hopeless romantic

The sticks

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
why no names...
Removed to protect the innocent, perhaps? It's me (black) vs. the vigilante, who's quite good, as it turns out.

C
Cowboy From Hell

American West

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I've been checkmated on my back rank, is that close enough? 😞

itiswhatitis

oLd ScHoOl

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Kings getting checkmated on their own back rank... you see a lot of games like that at the Recent Checkmates portion of the log on page. For that reason alone I'm guessing this happens a lot here at RHP.

e4

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Hi lemon lime. There are hundreds...here are just a few.

First Paul Leggett - SlovakianSnypaX RHP 2010.

Paul how could you miss 14.0-0+ mating in a few moves. It's a Morphy Move.
You were named you 'Paul' after Morphy not after McCartney



jasperV - BOB42 RHP 2011.

In 20 moves the White King gets mated on d8 and is chased
there after both Queens have come off. The final position:


Speaks volumes for development v non-development.



The shortest own rank mate (16 moves) and it's Black that does it.

babadad - dirtycajun RHP 2011

Secret RHP coder

on the payroll

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Just finished a game that works for this thread. (Well, the last three moves are set as conditionals, but it's an easy forced mate.)