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Second cousin of Anastasia's mate

Second cousin of Anastasia's mate

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I've been teaching Anastasia's mate (*) to various children in the last few weeks. This meant that I saw the tactic based on 15. Bxd5 in the following OTB game from several moves away.

(*) See http://www.chess.com/article/view/mating-patterns-5-anastasias-mate



I was hoping for something like 22. ... b4 23. Nd8 Qxf3 24. Nxf7#, but was happy enough with what happened!

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I wanted 23. Ne5 to work and after a minute or so I realised that the rook on a8 was hanging after all the exchanges.

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Originally posted by greenerpawn
23...Qxe7 seems to pick up a lot of material for the Q, at first glance.
I think that will only pick up two knights for the queen because white's queen is hitting the rook on a1.