31 May 04
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You wanna laugh at ME? Here's a good one. After sacing a piece early, I have a deadly pawn mass going, promotion is close to unstoppable...
And I fall into a mate trap.
Oy. If only I'd played 38. ... Ra1 I would've crushed him.
Game 497301
31 May 04
Heh, I have a similar one, quite a harmless looking position..then..uh..checkmate 🙂
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31 May 04
Originally posted by paultopiaDOH :'(
You wanna laugh at ME? Here's a good one. After sacing a piece early, I have a deadly pawn mass going, promotion is close to unstoppable...
And I fall into a mate trap.
Oy. If only I'd played 38. ... Ra1 I would've crushed him.
Game 497301
05 Jun 04
Originally posted by Osse(quickey not-really thought through response, probably falls to easy response)
38...Ra1 looks as though it is met by 39.Ne3+ Kh3 (say) 40.Bxf3, when White is pretty much guranteed a win as the Ne3 stops Rf1+.
Nasty way to end though.
Yea, but after any king move, the mate threat is gone, so f4 is now doable, and the knight gets kicked right off e3.
06 Jun 04
Don't feel too bad. We all have one of those in our closet.
In attack mode, and way ahead materially, I had managed to pin and remove the worrisome bishop that was causing me headaches (and possible mating threats) ... only to overlook the other bishop... Aggghh... if only I had questioned his last pawn move, instead of being so greedy. 😕
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