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| Jul-27-15 | | Sniffles: 9. H3 |
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| Jul-27-15 | | morfishine: Cool Game <patzer2> Navara vs M Keller, 2000 showing the correct treatment of the position with <10.h3>; even as late as move 12 White improves with <12.Be3> which is also what I thought For those who took more time than normal for a Monday, try viewing the position from the Black side <Once> Nomovezwang
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| Jul-27-15 | | JimmyRockHound: I got it in about 2 seconds. Which is unusual for me. I often struggle even on Mondays. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | Kyudaime: 12... Qf2+ 13. Kh1 Qg1+ 14. N/Rxg1 Nf2# |
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| Jul-27-15 | | zb2cr: Simple. 12. ... Qxf2+; 13. Kh1, Qg1+. Now, no matter whether White takes with Knight or Rook at g1, Black mates with 14. ... Nf2#. |
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Jul-27-15
 | | Penguincw: This puzzle was easy for me. Simply take on f2 (which is hit twice and guarded once by the king), and then queen sac on g1, and smothered mate (just no windmill). |
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| Jul-27-15 | | TheTamale: What destruction! Nothing but Archangelsk Variation for me from now on. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | BOSTER: Erik v Banke. Nice story. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | njdanie: I remember seeing the exact same game somehow without Bg7 in the 1972 Olympiad, Turkey v Cyprus...
I was playing in a high school tournament at the time and a couple of us saw the game in a recent chess magazine. A friend of mine got the exact same opening against one of the strongest players in the tournament, but the guy say the mate and had to give back the Nd4 and eventually won as white despite being several pawns down... |
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| Jul-27-15 | | Oxspawn: Asphyxiation: Three moves seems too many for a Monday but until someone tells me different I like 12…… Qxf2+
13. Kh1 Qg1+
14. RorNxg1 Nf2# |
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| Jul-27-15 | | Chess Dad: When I first looked, I spent about a minute or two trying to figure out how to eliminate the f3 Knight so that I could play Qxh2+. But after seeing that wasn't going to work, it didn't take too long to find the smother. I agree it was a bit hard for a Monday. This seems more like a Tuesday problem or perhas a very easy Wednesday problem. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | kevin86: Smothered mate in three! |
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| Jul-27-15 | | poachedeggs: The knight takes a tassled pillow and smothers the King on f2... |
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| Jul-27-15 | | Longview: I knew it was there, I did not recognize the pattern against white, interestingly enough. It took me a while to find out how to use the Queen sac in the process but once I stopped trying to get the rook and the queen and turned the battle to the King, I saw it. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | StevieB: <LucB> I always flip the board when it's a black move to win. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | whiteshark: What a beginning of the week: <Smothered Monday incl ♕ sac! > |
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Jul-27-15
 | | Domdaniel: Nice smothered mate. For anyone who found this one difficult, I recommend a classic book -- The Art of Checkmate, by Renaud & Kahn, originally published in the 1940s but now in a new 2015 translation. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | BOSTER: If <CG> knew how many stars read this game, he'd put 2 star for it. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | Tiggler: Smothered mate in 3. What do those who found it have in common? Seen it before (or something similar). |
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| Jul-27-15 | | TheFocus: Wow. This was so easy, even for a Monday.
<Tiggler> <Smothered mate in 3. What do those who found it have in common? Seen it before (or something similar).> Yes, just simple pattern recognition. |
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| Jul-27-15 | | Gilmoy: Bank Shot Corner Pocket! |
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| Jul-27-15 | | Alex56171: <Cybe>, please, what are the russian engines you have mentioned? Do they participate of Computer Chess Championships? If so, how have been their performance? Are they available for free download? |
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Jul-27-15
 | | Bubo bubo: Smothered mate with 12...Qxf2+ 13.Kh1 Qg1+ 14.Rxg1/Nxg1 Nf2# - thanks to the DSB! |
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Jul-27-15
 | | eternaloptimist: I solved this really quickly. If it's played all the way out, it's a nice example of a smothered mate! |
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Aug-05-15
| | Domdaniel: Is it just me, or are <chrisowen>'s long posts getting even more verbose than before?
I'm not complaining, you understand -- chris's quasi-poetic riffifis are still hugely preferable to the work of writers who cannot spell to save their sausages or who can't scribble (or Scrabble) if their lives depended on it. Or not, as the case may be. So what does this mean? Linguistic garbage trumps 'bad' lingo. <fem dom an fan for fur fyi fun fox light an foy fubar hovel mark fudd i fluffer tile ground frugal bruv an flush full fumigate erstwhile go ok build an position as hive fine fun four fur pussy to foot around futon ive off bag affable bog riven calm good iffy bic gob affable buff > And why am I mentioned? Why all those F-words? (Fubar, of course, is "fouled up beyond all reason", innit?) Do I detect a vaguely risqué subtext? (Buff, gob, pussy, fox, fur, usw). Why the namechecks for 'Mark' and 'Dom' -- admittedly we're both legends, but even so. Maybe it's poetry, Chris. Maybe it's n-dimensional cut-up doggerel -- taking your doggerel for a walk to, well, chase pussy in boots (the chemist?). But, hey, it doesn't make sense. Have you thought about trying lucidity? It can be clearer than acidity. And I've decoded stuff that makes chrisowenish read like Enid Bleedin' Blyton. "Bong Ears and Nodding Off were stoned as usual..." |
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