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CHECKMATE in under 20 moves

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Here is my first win that qualifies. This is the third game I've played on this site and is a good warning as to why black is not supposed to try to hold the pawn in queen's gambit accepted. The game ends with a timeout, but mate was forces on the 19th move. My opponent, 1MrBrightside was a 1277 at the time.

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Game 8346722

I wasn't really trying to mate my opponent here. I was going to try to force a queen trade after he blocked it with his pawn.

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Originally posted by deeploser
Game 8346722

I wasn't really trying to mate my opponent here. I was going to try to force a queen trade after he blocked it with his pawn.
You were doubly lucky, then, that he fell for it. Exchanging queens would've left you with an isolated pawn and nothing to show for it. At our level that's hardly going to lose you the game all by itself, but it leaves you with problems all the same.

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I just logged off from FICS, I have to show you this one. Double bishop sac, fourteen moves. Mind you, those are provisional ratings on both of us. Sixty minutes on the clock, he used five and I fifteen. Nick's an old friend of mine, and since we live some 450 kilometres from one another nowadays, we battle it out on FICS once or twice a week.



If you're looking for RHP wins, try Game 8100367. A scandinavian as black. My opponent resigned on the 13th move, with mate in one.

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A blunder by my opponent saw this finish in 16 moves.

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Originally posted by Damien Black
[pgn][Event "Open invite"] [Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"] [Date "2011.03.28"] [EndDate "2011.04.10"] [Round "?"] [White "Damien Black"] [Black "1MrBrightside"] [WhiteRating "1709"] [BlackRating "1277"] [WhiteELO "1709"] [BlackELO "1277"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "8303880"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Ng1f3 Bc8e6 4. e4 c6 5. a4 b5 6. axb5 cxb5 7. Nb1c3 a6 on the 19th move. My opponent, 1MrBrightside was a 1277 at the time.
Bf4xb8 (move number 12) was a GREAT move. Kudos.

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A game I just finished on 5/5 blitz. He really missed his dark squared bishop here, allowing me to infiltrate on the dark squares.

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push

Paul Leggett
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A cheapo- there was a huge rating gap here, but a useful pattern if someone is making a database out of quick mates.

Paul Leggett
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Originally posted by Paul Leggett
A cheapo- there was a huge rating gap here, but a useful pattern if someone is making a database out of quick mates.

[pgn][Event "Open invite"]
[Site "http://www.playtheimmortalgame.com"]
[Date "2011.05.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Paul Leggett"]
[Black "hawki"]
[WhiteRating "2020"]
[BlackRating "1189"]
[WhiteELO "2020"]
[BlackELO "1189"]
[Resu ...[text shortened]... 4 h5 7. f3 a6 8. Bf1d3 h4 9. Bg3f2 Ng8h6 10. exd5 cxd5 11. Bd3g6 *[/pgn]
Egads I'm an idiot.

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Here is one...

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With a little bit of help from Dom Pedro...



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Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow...
😀

PureRWandB
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Classic Rock song by the way....

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