OTB Blunder of the Year

Apparently she needed a draw to qualify for the next round and so went for a perpetual.

Here is a picture of how she looked after 57. ... Qxa5
http://tinyurl.com/mnc6tus
(the 2007 refers to her rating - after this game FIDE held a special meeting and stripped her of nearly 400 rating points for bringing the game into disrepute).

Originally posted by Data Fly

Here is a picture of how she looked after 57. ... Qxa5

Originally posted by Data Fly
Apparently she needed a draw to qualify for the next round and so went for a perpetual.

Here is a picture of how she looked after 57. ... Qxa5
http://tinyurl.com/mnc6tus
(the 2007 refers to her rating - after this game FIDE held a special meeting and stripped her of nearly 400 rating points for bringing the game into disrepute).

Originally posted by thaughbaer
I prefer this one...

http://tinyurl.com/ojku6d6

It's the kind of thing you see in blitz.
A player instead of mating in one hangs their Queen.

I've found some RHP examples that come close.
Sadly missing mate in one is not uncommon on here
and neither is hanging a Queen but not together in
the space of one move. But I'm sure I'll find one.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
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On the 8th of March I posted what some are all the 'Move of the Year' Thread 163284

I now present the OTB Blunder of the Year.

Deimante Daulyte - Monika (Bobrowska) Socko
2015 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship

White to play.

[fen]3Q4/kb6/8/1P6/8/6P1/5P2/4qBK1 w - - 0 57[/fen]
b6 is Checkmate. Instead Whit ...[text shortened]... nd White resigned.

I think even our RHP lads will have trouble topping this one.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
If all she wanted was perpet, wouldn't Q-e4+ do it?

BTW, when was the last time a GM won a match against a computer?

anyone look at 9.Nb3 in the blunder of the year game, looks like another blunder after ...c4 forking knight and bishop but its in fact a very brilliant and deep move.