Ever feel dumb?

deeploser

Only Chess

12 Feb 07 23:58

deeploser

1. e4!!

Joined: 23 Dec 06
Moves: 20068

12 Feb 07 23:58

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Game 3156420

Missed mate in one and even considered the move and tossed it out because it was bad!

EDIT: Move 25. ... Nb4 where Nxf4# 🙁

DeepThought

Losing the Thread

Quarantined World

Joined: 27 Oct 04
Moves: 87415

13 Feb 07 00:06

Yep, this has to be one of my worst games ever Game 2956699. Not content with failing to spot 14. Bxe7 which wins by force. I then went on to miss mate in one, my opponent didn't...

UndeadNightOrc

Joined: 03 Jan 07
Moves: 7814

13 Feb 07 00:08

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Originally posted by deeploser
Game 3156420

Missed mate in one and even considered the move and tossed it out because it was bad!

EDIT: Move 25. ... Nb4 where Nxf4# 🙁

Heh, at least you still won it. I've had a couple defeats where in the postmortem my computer analysis tells me I missed chances to mate.

Of course, in one case it was a mate in 6, which is kinda beyond my powers of calculation 🙂 . But the one with a mate in 2 had me kicking myself for a few hours.

deeploser

1. e4!!

Joined: 23 Dec 06
Moves: 20068

13 Feb 07 00:12

And it seems weird that you see these things the split second AFTER you hit submit. I mean it was no longer that a nano second after I hit submit that I saw it was mate. I suppose this is why they say to take more than 20 seconds to analyze a position. 21 seconds seems to be the sweet spot. 😀

Falco Lombardi

over there

Joined: 12 Sep 06
Moves: 749

13 Feb 07 12:08

Yes, I feel dumb sometimes. I had two easy wins at club yesterday against weaker players that I threw out the window.

zebano

127.0.0.1

Joined: 27 Oct 05
Moves: 158564

13 Feb 07 13:15

yeah I missed a mate in one yesterday too. Simply because I had two potential mate in two's (based on opponents move) in my my notebook. When the only "saving" move was played it went from mate in two to mate in one and not having any anlysis written, I just played the first good looking move I saw which will allow the game to strech out for quite some time.

stevetodd

Joined: 26 Nov 03
Moves: 11918

13 Feb 07 17:39

Originally posted by UndeadNightOrc
Originally posted by deeploser
[b]Game 3156420

Missed mate in one and even considered the move and tossed it out because it was bad!

EDIT: Move 25. ... Nb4 where Nxf4# 🙁

Heh, at least you still won it. I've had a couple defeats where in the postmortem my computer analysis tells me I missed chances to mate.

Of course, in ...[text shortened]... powers of calculation 🙂 . But the one with a mate in 2 had me kicking myself for a few hours.[/b]

He was lucky though it could have been a completely different story if his opponent had not blundered on move 30 by playing p x R, he should have played Q x B check. He can then take the rook afterwards and has his queen on top of his opponents king