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| Nov-08-05 | | Halldor: 21...Nxe5 would have been a better move. |
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| Nov-08-05 | | Happypuppet: <TopaLove> In The Inner Game of Chess, Soltis gives the diagram after Black's 32nd and this explanation. "White found the most obvious idea of the position, the checks beginning with Qd6+. After he realized that 1... Kg8 2 Ne7+ Kf8 sets up the opportunity for discovered checks and doubled checks, it wasn't hard to spot the second idea in the position, the smothered mate: 3. Nxg6+ Kg8 4. Qf8+ Rxf8 5. Ne7#. "This is the easiest method for most humans to calculate because it is the most forceful. But if you give the diagrammed position to a competent chess computer, it will find 1. Qf6 after which mate on g7, e7, or h8 can be delayed only for one move by a spite check. Thus, the "quiet" 1. Qf6 is two moves faster than the check on d6. Yet nine out of ten human players will tell you 1. Qd6+ is the easier to calculate." |
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| Nov-08-05 | | TopaLove: <Happypuppet> That´s really interesting. However, Fritz moved Qd6+, at least when whe moves instantly. |
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Aug-19-06
 | | tpstar: Great pickup about 33. Qf6 but the final sequence is striking. White set the whole thing up with 25. Bd4 preparing a Discovery on the Qb2 while avoiding capture on e5. Then 26. h3 hit the Ng4 and also prevented any back rank problems. Finally 32. Bd4 (again) left a key diagonal open for White's Queen. Brilliant game. |
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| Nov-23-07 | | computer chess guy: Black went wrong with 30. .. g6. The best defense is 30. .. ♗g4. Fritz still gives some advantage to White, though. |
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| Nov-24-07 | | Red October: nice mate |
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| Nov-05-13 | | mathlover: The finish is special . |
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| Nov-23-18 | | Christoforus Polacco: In Poland ''smothered mate' is called ''Bieniowski Mate''. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauri... |
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| Nov-13-23 | | Brenin: 36 Qf8+ Rxf8 39 Ne7 mate. Neat pattern! |
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Nov-13-23
 | | takebackok: No think Monday, |
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Nov-13-23
 | | Korora: Everyone knows Henny Youngman's famous one-liner, right? |
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| Nov-13-23 | | mel gibson: This also works:
36. Ne7+ Kf8
37. Nc8+ Kg8
38. Qd8++ |
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| Nov-13-23 | | BxChess: Good points made by <tpstar>. Black was losing after 25. Bd4, and certainly lost by 31. Qf4. |
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| Nov-13-23 | | Brenin: A pretty finish, but 35 Nc8+ was quicker. Black's big mistake was 30 ... g6, when Bg4 would have kept him alive. Earlier he had White in trouble, but on moves 21 and 22 he missed eliminating the powerful BSB with Nxe5; it cost him in the end. |
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| Nov-13-23 | | Mayankk: 36 Qf8+ Rxf8 37 Ne7#. An interesting version of smothered mate. |
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| Nov-13-23 | | stacase: Pretty darn straight forward:
36. Ne7+ Kf8
37. Nc8+ Kg8
38. Qd8# |
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| Nov-13-23 | | Allderdice83: It's the standard corner double-check, queen sac, smothered mate, moved over one square, made possible by the unopposed, unblocked bishop on the long diagonal. The only difference is the square in front of the king (g7) is open, but the bishop covers it. |
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| Nov-13-23 | | saturn2: Qf8 followed by Ne7 mate |
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| Nov-13-23 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long thinking, the strong Russian GM and theoretician Evgeny Shveshnikov finally found the smothered mate in 2 moves with the nice queen sacrifice 36.Qf8+!,Rxf8 37.Ne7#. As a very principled man, at the end of his life he thought, that the two best Sicilian variations for black are 1.e4,c5 2.Nf3,Nc6 3.d4,cxd4 4.Nxd4,e5(!) [Kalashnikov variation] and 1.e4,c5 2.Nf3,Nc6 3.Bb5,e6(!), but NOT 1.e4,c5 2.Nf3,Nc6 3.d4,cxd4 4.Nxd4,Nf6(?) 5.Nc3,e5 [HIS Shveshnikov variation] and 1.e4,c5 2.Nf3,Nc6 3.Lb5,g6(?). |
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| Nov-13-23 | | cocker: 35 Nc8+ is quicker (as Brenin has aleardy pointed out). |
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Nov-13-23
 | | chrisowen: I quilly its banker its hoof jap Qf8+ axiom jiffy its eel aad dank adagio its nag Qf8+ dug :) |
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| Nov-13-23 | | njdanie: I guess ES wanted the smothered mate rather than a quicker mate(s). After all how often does one get the chance for a smothered mate. |
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Nov-13-23
 | | paulalbert: Easy, but with a little different pattern than I remember seeing on a N with B mate. |
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Nov-13-23
 | | dorsnikov: Wow! Even I got it right off the bat ! |
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Nov-13-23
 | | eternaloptimist: It's a straightforward puzzle & a good puzzle to have on a Monday. Sveshnikov used ivanov’s own ♖ to assist in the mate threat. It was a shame that ivanov was foolish enough to become an alcoholic & probably died as a result of it b/c it probably contributed to him getting cancer. He was unwilling to go to rehab to kick his alcohol addiction. He won the Canadian chess championship 4 times, was on the Canadian Olympiad team twice & was a 9-time US Grand Prix champion but made a huge mistake by getting hooked on alcohol |
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sac: 29.Bxf6