CHECKMATE in under 20 moves

I play over 1200 games on the site without doing this, and now I have two in one week. I'm going out to buy a lottery ticket.

Not sure if thematic tournament games should count, since you are already starting at about move 6 🙂

Originally posted by MCA
"Punish severly" being the important phrase huh. lol.

Well all this is certainly helping to point out what not to do in the early stages.

Thank you all for your posts so far.

A few mistakes on both our ends. I counted twelve on my end....can you tell which ones were mistakes? 😉

Here's one where an early mistake just leads to disaster.

...unfortunately, I was the one that made the mistake 🙁

My thanks to Pauline Calf, User 133345, for the quick chess lesson!

Originally posted by schakuhr
Game 1057867

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Dude , he could've taken your queen on move 16.

Assassin Pawn, 11 move checkmate :-)

woodworm - ruiiniciantefor
ICS unrated blitz match

Here is one...
Not too proud of it, but it DOES fall within the requirements.

Mate in 17 with one exchange. A bullet game (1 min. No incr.)

Since this thread is running, and with apologies to Bob, I will post this game.
Just played as a friendly contest between two authentic oldsters.

Originally posted by PureRWandB
Here is one...
Not too proud of it, but it DOES fall within the requirements.

Here's one I just finished. My first Assassin Pawn game! I don't know how to annotate, so I'll write here. Why they didn't do 15. ... exf6 I really don't know. I'm sure there are blunders of my own that could have been exploited too...