Well it is exactly 20 moves:
13 dxc7 I thought was a mistake but it allowed the mate, I had thought to take the rook before I moved too fast to remember I had the rook. A mistake that worked out!
So would taking the rook have led to a shorter mate? I guess this game was the luck of the draw.
And of course 18 R-e8 was what I was waiting for🙂
Originally posted by Data FlyNice! Even though your opponent blundered horribly it was only because of the pressure relegated upon him by the symphonic attack with which you assaulted his position.
Line the queen and bishop up on h7 and mate follows...
[pgn]
[Event "playok.com"]
[Site "kurnik"]
[Date "2015.03.17"]
[White "Data Fly"]
[Black "chechensky"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e3 Bb4 5. Qa4+ Nc6 6. Bxc4 Bxc3+
7. bxc3 Rb8 8. Ba3 a6 9. Qc2 Nge7 10. Nf3 O-O 11. Ng5 Ng6
12. h4 h6 13. Bxf8 Qxf8 14. Nf3 Nce7 15. h5 Nh8 16. Bd3 Nf5
17. g4 Nd6 18. Bh7# 1-0
[/pgn]
Hi Datafly
You are probably correct with the 90%.
His 7...Ke7?! instead of the normal 7...Ke6.
I wonder if the lad has had some success with this. (possibly a mouse slip.)
If at blitz ( a word I take too literally when I play) as White a move later.
I may have added to the 10% of losses with he clever 9.d4? (it's the first thing that
I thought of) expecting 9...Nxc2+ 19.Bg5+ and cursing when he played 9....Qxd5.
A backward Knight move is involved in that and it's such a move
that is a minor theme of the next blog.
Hopefully I would have spotted that and played 9.Nc3.
If Black takes on c2 and a1 White has mate in two.
The final mate. The fans wanted 15.Qf7 mate.
It's pays homage to Knight that sacced itself on that square.
A slight variation on the old smothered mate theme.
See the first post by Fat Lady (*) in Thread 116824 for where I got the idea from.
(*) One of the finest players ever to grace Red Hot Pawn in my opinion.
