Some lad on the 'General Forum' is getting stick because he keeps
insulting his opponents by PM's. Thread 101396.
I went through a few of his games (queenknightrook) and found
this interesting position with Black (him) to play.
How often in your chess playing career do you get a chance to under
promote to a Bishop giving mate in one whilst your opponet has two Queens?
So would 63...d1=B mate be showing off, displaying an artistic bent
or is it the best move in the position?
The whole game is actually quite interesting.
White had the chance to give up his Queen for 3 bits at round about
move 8 or 9. (messy - either way).
White builds up this great attack and is surely winning but
keeps missing the winning combination or walk in variaition.
(walk in = simply go in and mate him without any tricks using the brute force method)
Then from move 31 Black's takes over.
Black misses at least two psuedo sacs to lure the King & Queen onto
Knight forkable squares (31...Rd1+!) and (34...Nxg5 35.Qxd4 Nf3+).
(some work needed there - perhaps he should call himself QueenRook
till after he has the Knight forking patterns mastered).
Then we have this 'once in a lifetime' ending.
Game 5507287
And what about the insults? Block them.
Instead of 61...d1=Q mate - black could have (should have?)
play 61...d1=Bishop Mate.
Quote:
"I didn't get an insulting message from him. But I guess that win was
an insult in itself."
And he was quite reasonable in a PM to me.
Said he did not care how won - just so long as he won. - fair enough.