Box Mate Examples

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Box Mate Examples
Compiled by ChessCoachClark

This game collection is bringing actual games where the Rook gives the mate with support by its King which has the Opposition. Here the most general cases are presented-- none of these games included have the defending King alone and just a Rook and a King on the other side. Those games with such a simplified mating process are covered separately, in one of my other game collections-- the Lonely Box Mate Examples.

If you are learning about the Box Mate just now, then I urge you to work through the Lonely Box Mate Examples first. Come back to these games after you are more than a tad bit familiar with the simplest Box mates, please.

When a style, flavor or case of the Box Mate has the other King at the edge and uses Direct Opposition it will be labelled with S1. Its "skeleton diagram" is shown below:

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Two other styles of the Box Mate are available when the other King has been relegated to the corner of the board. For the style that needs Direct Opposition, S2 will be the label. Its skeleton diagram is shown below:

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The 'last' style needs Rectangular Opposition and its games will be labelled S3, which has the skeleton diagram below.

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FULL means that the game actually ended as the Box Mate.

BUSY starts the game header for games with several chessmen on the board. Such games may need neither Direct Opposition nor Rectangular Opposition, if helpers contribute effectively enough to the mate. Further, the other King may be located ANYWHERE on the board.

Still other games do not lead to a Box Mate per se, but the threat of the Box Mate became a tactic to win the game. Again, they are being given below for the benefits of visualization and application of the Box Mate concepts.

ChessCoachClark (CCC) originated this game collection prior to December of 2018 and he updates it on occasion. This project is a work in progress, culling games from various sources, including several chess training books and personal research. The games are ordered by date (oldest first), not by importance.

Be well.
Be safe.

S2 BUSY-- Black avoided stalemate tricks to bring the Box Mate
Burn vs J M Hanham, 1889
(C41) Philidor Defense, 72 moves, 0-1
BUSY-- Box Mate with help from the Knight (S1 by effect)
Marshall vs Tarrasch, 1905
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 48 moves, 0-1
S1 BUSY-- VERTICAL Box Mate at end of this game
Teichmann vs Marshall, 1905
(C12) French, McCutcheon, 56 moves, 1-0
TACTIC-- Box Mate threat wins game (Bishop falls first)
Schlechter vs Rotlewi, 1911
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 40 moves, 0-1
BUSY After 44. ... Bh4 45. Rb8+ Bd8 46. Rxd8#, S1 by effect
A Nimzowitsch vs Spielmann, 1912
(C02) French, Advance, 44 moves, 1-0
FULL-- VERTICAL Box Mate with Bishop helping (S1 by effect)
M Radojcic vs V Tomovic, 1947
(C41) Philidor Defense, 86 moves, 0-1
S3 BUSY-- VERTICAL Box Mate at the end of this game
Tartakower vs Rossolimo, 1950
(E17) Queen's Indian, 48 moves, 0-1
S1 BUSY-- Classic Box Mate at end
L Lane vs T Zatulovskaya, 1961
(B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 65 moves, 0-1
Box Mate threat ends game; three possible mates as result!
C Jauregui vs Letelier, 1961
(A04) Reti Opening, 83 moves, 0-1
S1 BUSY-- Game ends with classic Box Mate
S Purevzhav vs A Prameshuber, 1964
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 57 moves, 0-1
S1 BUSY EOG is a Box Mate with Knight Help.
A Sznapik vs S Holm, 1972
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 33 moves, 1-0
123...Be6 124 Rf8+ Bg8 125 Rxg8# --OR-- 123...Ba4/Bf5 124 Rf8#
Petrosian vs B Ivanovic, 1980
(A13) English, 123 moves, 1-0
S1 BUSY-- VERTICAL while Bishop is En Prise/hanging
B Ivanovic vs S Mariotti, 1981
(C45) Scotch Game, 60 moves, 1-0
Box Mate threat (Royal Fork) at 58... Rd1+ wins the White Queen
P Nikolic vs Gelfand, 1991
(E38) Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5, 65 moves, 0-1
S3 FULL-- Game ends with Box Mate in corner
P Haba vs Shulman, 1996
(C02) French, Advance, 118 moves, 0-1
55.Qf2 Kf2 56.a3 c1Q# Box Mate by Queen and a Promotion Mate.
A Schneider vs L Zila, 1996
(E84) King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line, 54 moves, 0-1
After Rb3+ Bc3 Rxc3+ Kxc3 Kd1, a King Chase leads to Box Mate
J Jackova vs C Zhu, 2000
(B75) Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 93 moves, 0-1
S2 A classic Box Mate after 82. Be1 Rxe1#
T Sammalvuo vs G Guseinov, 2003
(A04) Reti Opening, 81 moves, 0-1
Box Mate by Queen (SF 17 M11).
P Chubinsky vs J Friedel, 2003
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 23 moves, 0-1
S1 FULL-- VERTICAL, yet classic Box Mate
R Felgaer vs Dominguez Perez, 2004
(B91) Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation, 64 moves, 0-1
S1 BUSY Box Mate after 97. ... Rf8 98. Rxf8#
J Hector vs D Baramidze, 2004
(B97) Sicilian, Najdorf, 97 moves, 1-0
BUSY VERTICAL Mate by Kh2 Rh7# S1 by effect--distant Kings!
K Akshayraj vs S Safin, 2005
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 46 moves, 0-1
SF17 M19 is a vertical Box Mate with Bishop help.
A Lugovoi vs Z Bogut, 2005
(B07) Pirc, 38 moves, 1-0
57...Rxe7 58 Rd8+ Re8 59 fxe8Q#. Box Mate by Queen.
D Genocchio vs A Malfagia, 2006
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 57 moves, 1-0
Box Mate after M12 from both lone King position and EOG.
A Golovkina vs A Vasilyev, 2017
(B48) Sicilian, Taimanov Variation, 29 moves, 1-0
BUSY Box Mate VERTICAL (S1 in effect)
I Miladinovic vs M Admiraal, 2017
(D00) Queen's Pawn Game, 70 moves, 0-1
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