Ronald Augustus Slade vs David Vincent Hooper (1947) The Slade Wiped Clean

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Ronald Augustus Slade vs David Vincent Hooper
"The Slade Wiped Clean" (game of the day Nov-27-2017)
WECU Bristol (1947), Bristol ENG, rd 2
Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen. Modern Variation General (B83) · 0-1

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FEN COPIED

Given 18 times; par: 41 [what's this?]

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Jun-25-07		Rubenus: In a real game, I would have played something like Qd7. I got the solution right but it took me some time to do so.

Jun-25-07		not yet a patzer: I saw the smothered mate almost immediately and was feeling pretty good, because I can't always solve the Monday puzzles. Just before I clicked to the game I noticed the white queen "hiding" beside my knight! But, much to my surprise, I found the sac. In a real game I probably would have moved my knight first and lost it.

Jun-25-07		sataranj: Moondoll: "sac, ting, mate" I love mondays. cg is the only place where people hate sundays and love mondays got it instantly. they call it suffocation mate or something like that

Jun-25-07		tarek1: I wonder if white, instead of 29.Ree1 ?, could not have payed 29.Rh3, threatening Bxg6 and setting a little trap for Black : if 29...Nxd3 30.cxd3! and the black queen must leave the b8-h2 diagonal. But white's position is difficult in any case

Jun-25-07		ianD: Nice and easy for Monday. There is something very pleasing about a Q sac followed by smothered mate.

Jun-25-07		ahmadov: A nice one. I found this in a matter of seconds. This reminds me the Philidor Legacy...

Jun-25-07		Billy Ray Valentine: I could have sworn I had seen either this puzzle or one nearly identical to it tactically on a Monday before... oh well. Nice easy Monday puzzle...

Jun-25-07		TrueBlue: Ng1 was just stupid for white!

Jun-25-07		podjevsky: hmm, I need to read the captions better. I thought it was white to play and win... Well, nice smothered mate anyway and I always love when you get the chance to do it, although it is not often

Jun-25-07		TrueBlue: white can play and win, no problem there, it might be even an easier puzzle!

Jun-25-07		mkrk17: <notyetagm: Yes, that's the real skill in chess: creating the position for a winning combination> I read a saying somewhere, which goes something like this. Tactics do not come out of thin air. They come out of constant superior positional play, or at the end of a combination.

Jun-25-07		MenisfromVenis: QRp ch, QQ followed by smothered mate by the N. A monday puzzle.

Jun-25-07		Simplification: <vibes43: What would have been the best white move at 29? Would 29. Rg3 have saved him?> No, that would have been the best move for black! 29... Nf2#

Jun-25-07		MaxxLange: <tarek1> that wouldn't help much. If 29. Rh3 Nxd3 30. cxd3, Black can win the exchange with 30...Nf2+ 31. Qxf2 Qxc1

Jun-25-07		gawain: Love those smothered mates. I never get tired of them.

Jun-25-07		tarek1: <MaxxLange> So simple ! it seems that it was too late already. I always try to take the defender's point of view in those puzzles, because it's actually as much fun to try to demolish those puzzles as to solve them ;)

Jun-25-07		Crowaholic: 3 seconds for this Monday puzzle. If you can't smash'em, smother'em.

Jun-25-07		Crowaholic: <SpecialK: followed up with mate by Knf2. It's not necessary even to check the answer> Wow. I'm impressed that you saw that it was the king's knight that moved Ng8-f6-e8-f6-g4 and not the queen's knight that moved Nb8-c6-a5-c6-e5-g4 solely by looking at the diagram. <dzechiel: followed by the smothered mate on g2> <Moondoll: The Queen is the only thing stopping the mate on f3 with the Knight> <mkrk17: Then Nf2# strikes the eye> Seems like we can't agree on a square. :-)

Jun-25-07		zb2cr: I wasted some 45 seconds looking for a method to decoy the White queen away from protecting h2 (Black is threatening ... Qxh2# if the White Queen is not protecting it). White's obviously weak on the back rank. Then I noted what happens if Black delivers the Queen x h2 capture anyway and ... the smothered mate jumped out at me.

Jun-25-07		blair45: I'm with gawain. Puzzles like this puff me up and give me strength for the rest of the week.

Jun-25-07		kevin86: A variation on Philidor's legacy. Here,the queen is deflected from the fatal mating square by the adverse queen sacrifice.

Jun-25-07		YouRang: Very nice. Black threatens mate two ways (...Qxh2# and ...Nf2#), although the white queen appears to be stopping both. Of course, appearances can be deceiving, and it is an illusion here as ...Qxh2+ proves to be the deflection needed to spring ...Nf2#.

Jun-25-07		playground player: Now that really was easy!

Jun-25-07		Gregor Samsa Mendel: <vibes43>--White is dead lost by move 29. If 29 Rg3, Nf2#. If 29 Rh3, Nxd3 and the rook can't recapture because of the same old mate threat.

Jun-25-07		newton296: I love a good smother's mate. And this puzzle is a perfect 2 mover monday puzzle. I just wondered if white would resign after ...Qxh2+ or have too see nf2 mate, to believe it was really over.

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