Nice blitz mate

9...Nd5 was beautiful! Black has a piece attacked by a pawn, and moves a second piece to a square where it can be attacked by a pawn!

And neither of the hanging pieces can be taken by white!

lol

I love it! very nice indeed!!

Seconded, lovely 🙂

Yes it was a rare Tal moment. 😀

Very nice! How long did it take for you to find Nd5 and did you see all the way to mate from there?

I immediately spotted Nd5, but rather because of Qh4+ (a common scheme easy to catch), combined with Ne3.

Originally posted by nimzo5
Very nice! How long did it take for you to find Nd5 and did you see all the way to mate from there?

I saw that moving the Knight would allow check as soon as white played fxe5, i think ..Nd5 was the first move i calculated as keeping the white bishop on the board is desirable to give a follow up check. Obviously whites knight on d2 makes the move winning on the spot! Interestingly, white still loses after 10.fxg4 ..Qh4+ 11.Kf1 ..Qh3+ 12.Ke1 ..Bc5 where there is no defence against ..Qh4+ and mate on the following move. Winning the Queen actually lets white off the hook! 😀

EDIT: Actually, the correct line should be 10.fxg4 ..Qh4+ 11.Kf1 ..Qh3+ 12.Ke1 ..Bc5 13.Rg1 (to block the check) ..Qxh2 and white is busted...

EDIT2: Actually this line doesn't work, instead of 13.Rg1 white simply moves the knight on d2 and black is a piece down!

Doesn't 10. Nf1 win at least one on the two pieces hanging?

Regardless of the soundness of the 9 ... Nd5 move, its a job well done! Love it!

Originally posted by yashin
Doesn't 10. Nf1 win at least one on the two pieces hanging?

Regardless of the soundness of the 9 ... Nd5 move, its a job well done! Love it!

Wow! Well spotted!! Yes you might be right there, have to analyse a little. Good move!

Originally posted by yashin
Doesn't 10. Nf1 win at least one on the two pieces hanging?

Regardless of the soundness of the 9 ... Nd5 move, its a job well done! Love it!

No, as Black has Qh4+ Ng3 and then Bd6!

at the very least Black has perpetual and if White gets ambitious with 0-0 then Black gets attacking chances.

I plugged the position after 9...Nd5 into an online analysis engine, and it spat out this continuation: 10. Bb5+ c6 11. exd5 Qh4+ 12. Ke2 cxb5 13. fxg4 O-O-O 14. Kd3 Rxd5+

It gives a score of 0.81, although the position of White's king is still quite tenuous.

This takes nothing away from the idea of 9...Nd5, the correct defense for that is very tough to find in a blitz game.

The last move was Bxb6??
Now Black is on the move, white will be mate, how?