Continuation: 37 ... Rxf6 38 Rd8+ Qe8 39 Rxe8+ Rf8 40 Rxf8# Bird vs Zukertort, 1886  (A02) Bird's Opening, 37 moves, 1-0 Alekhine announced mate in four, ahead of time. Alekhine vs A Frieman, 1924   (C21) Center Game, 24 moves, 1-0 Game ends with Back Rank Mate C Orbaan vs H Kramer, 1950  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 25 moves, 0-1 Continuation: 28. ... (any) 29. Re8#. No friends on seventh! Averbakh vs Ragozin, 1954  (A97) Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky, 28 moves, 1-0 VERTICAL Back Rank mate is unstoppable! Kxa3 Ra8# L Cooper vs I Ivanov, 1987  (E43) Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation, 31 moves, 0-1 Black never gets the tempo to make a Back Rank Mate J Trapl vs Jansa, 1987  (D90) Grunfeld, 34 moves, 1-0 Queen Sacrifice in continuation brings checkmate with next move L H Deelman vs A Bleijkmans, 1887  (A80) Dutch, 36 moves, 0-1 Black resigned as there is no way to stop Qh8#, only delay it. D Shapiro vs Silman, 1987  (E11) Bogo-Indian Defense, 36 moves, 1-0 Continues 34. ...Rxg8 35 Rxg8+ Kxg8 36 Qa8+ Rc8 37 Qxe8# Kharlov vs K Hulak, 1996 (B22) Sicilian, Alapin, 34 moves, 1-0 Continuation: 28. ... Nxc8 29. Qd8# Polgar vs Bareev, 1996  (C18) French, Winawer, 28 moves, 1-0 Two Back Rank Mate threats at end; one is 41. Rxc5 Rxf1# I Sokolov vs de Firmian, 1998  (E32) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 40 moves, 0-1 22. .. Bc4! is the first of more Back Rank Mate threats McShane vs V Mirumian, 1999  (D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 24 moves, 0-1 Continues 33. ... Rxg8 33. Qxg8! Kxg8 34. Rd8# Sutovsky vs De la Riva Aguado, 1999  (B31) Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation, 32 moves, 1-0 Game ends with first of more Back Rank Mate threats I Berezovsky vs C Singer, 2001 (C01) French, Exchange, 32 moves, 1-0 Could continue 47. fxe3 Rf1# or material loss or mate very soon J Degraeve vs A Vaisser, 2001 (B30) Sicilian, 46 moves, 0-1 29. Qe8+ begins line of moves with Back Rank Mate threats D Liu vs J Isaev, 2001 (C91) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 31 moves, 1-0 Mate threat against mate threat at the end! L Seres vs M Goczo, 2001  (D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 23 moves, 1-0 Game ends with a Deflection tactic that allows Back Rank Mate J Xie vs Seirawan, 2002  (C10) French, 24 moves, 0-1 Back Rank Mate threat wins material as game ends Topalov vs Morozevich, 2002  (C78) Ruy Lopez, 33 moves, 1-0 Continues 30 Rxf2 Ra1+ 31 Re1 Rxe1+ 32 Rf1 Rfxf1# Two Rooks! M Timmermans vs N Hortensius, 2005  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 29 moves, 0-1 Last move is Discovery and Double Attack with Back Rank threat M Velcheva vs H Puuska, 2007  (C03) French, Tarrasch, 27 moves, 1-0 Back Rank Mate that's also a Lolli's Mate Type B. R Swinkels vs C Bauer, 2007  (B27) Sicilian, 38 moves, 0-1 If 26. .. Rxd7 27. Qe8+ Rxe8 28. Rxe8# Aronian vs Gelfand, 2008  (E15) Queen's Indian, 26 moves, 1-0 Queen makes the Back Rank Mate for the vertical orientation. E Agrest vs A Smith, 2008 (D11) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 43 moves, 1-0 Either side could make the Back Rank Mate; tempo for Black, tho A G R Moen vs Topalov, 2013  (B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 35 moves, 0-1 Trade, trade, then slam home with checkmate! A Bullen vs J Fathallah, 2014  (A00) Uncommon Opening, 33 moves, 1-0 Continuation: 34 Nxh1 Rxh1# K P Surya vs K Rathnakaran, 2015  (C10) French, 33 moves, 0-1 Queen (sham) Sacrifice at end leads to Back Rank Mate M Muzychuk vs Koneru, 2015  (C45) Scotch Game, 29 moves, 1-0 Qxf8+ allows Rc8# after Kxf8 (or if Kh7, then Qg7#) D Sadzikowski vs A Mista, 2017  (B90) Sicilian, Najdorf, 46 moves, 1-0 29 games