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Apr-27-20 | | Brenin: Black walked into three sucker punches in quick succession: 6 ... Nge7 (Nd4!) allows the standard bishop sac 7 Bxf7! (Kxf7 8 Ng5+ and 9 Qxg4), 8 ... Nd4 (Ng6!) allows another (9 Nxd4 Bxd1 10 Ne6+ regains the Q), and 13 ... Bxf6 (Ng6!) invites a quick mate by Qxf6+. |
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Apr-27-20
 | | FSR: Boden's Mate, baby! |
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Apr-27-20 | | sfm: While "everything is possible", it is still hard to believe that Lajos Steiner who already was a strong master in 1922 plays into one of the most fundamental tactics in chess with 6.-,Nge7??
White, Dr. Geza Janny, is also listed as beating Emmanuel Schiffers in 10 moves after a trivial help-mate that most bare beginners wouldn't have walked into.
Maybe a hypnotist? |
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Apr-27-20 | | AlicesKnight: "Beautiful but rare..." Qxf6 gives Black a choice of two mates. We all want him to take the Q... |
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Apr-27-20 | | Pedro Fernandez: Nice very easy problem, including queen sac. |
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Apr-27-20
 | | takchess: Boden Monday ! |
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Apr-27-20 | | mel gibson: Good beginners puzzle. |
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Apr-27-20
 | | Oxspawn: I can lose a game in 15 moves. Nice to have something in common with a chess master. |
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Apr-27-20 | | morfishine: One of my favorite mates, as long as I'm not the victim lol |
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Apr-27-20 | | Vermit: I don't know who Janny is but he has a 100% record in this database and of his six games, the longest is 22 moves. |
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Apr-27-20 | | TheBish: Janny is an old Geza! According to his profile, he's 140 years old. He never died! |
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Apr-27-20 | | TheBish: Well, maybe he did. At least his games live on. |
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Apr-27-20 | | zb2cr: Took me a few seconds to see that a variant of Boden's mate works here: 14. Qxf6+, gxf6; 15. Bh6#. Pf course, Black could also lose prosaically by 14. ... Qf7; 15. Qxf7#, but where's the fun in that? |
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Apr-27-20
 | | scormus: Was this a real game? I suspect it was arranged for public show, or maybe for teaching beginners |
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Apr-27-20 | | thegoodanarchist: I was sorely tested with the temptation to castle, but O-O is hardly a combination! So I chose the same line as Steiner instead. |
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Apr-27-20 | | TheaN: I was actually stumped for a while on this one just completely missing the Boden setup. Obviously, <14.Qxf6+ gxf6 (Qf7 15.Qxf7#) 15.Bh6#>. I looked at 14.O-O for a while: it does win but Black has two tricky defenses, I mainly looked at 14....Nd5?! where White can slip up with for example 15.Bxd5?! Qxe6 16.Bxe6 Ke7, breaking the pin, threatening cxb2 and Kxe6. White wins though by 17.Rxf6! +-. Much better is 14....Ng8 when Black's actually defending the position. Typically White's best is to just leave it be, 15.Qd5! with 16.bxc3 and Black's as good as paralyzed. 14.Qxf6+ is slightly better though. |
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Apr-27-20
 | | gawain: This quarantine has fried my mind. I need to get out a chessboard to spot even such an obvious Monday mate as this one. Yikes. |
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Apr-27-20
 | | chrisowen: Easy I I captain. |
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Apr-27-20 | | 5hrsolver: Didn't get it. Went with 14.Rf1 |
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Apr-27-20 | | Damenlaeuferbauer: After long pondering the unknown Hungarian chess player Dr Géza Janny finally found the mate in two moves with the queen sacrifice 14.Qxf6+!,gxf6 (14.-,Qf7 15.Qxf7#) 15.Bh6# against his more famous compatriot Lajos Steiner. |
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Apr-27-20
 | | perfidious: After all these years, might be the first time I have seen the Boden Mate pulled off on the kingside. |
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Apr-27-20 | | ndg2: I recognize a Boden's mate when I see one (Qxf6+ followed by Bh6#) |
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Apr-27-20
 | | perfidious: <Caissalove: Of course white missed the same instant kill a couple of moves earlier with 12.Qf6+....> Come again? |
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Apr-27-20 | | Mfrankpsyd: In suggesting 12. Qf6 you’re forgetting that white hasn’t yet played f5 to clear the way for the Bishop. |
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Apr-28-20 | | Brenin: Geza Janny has 6/6 on CG, with a total of only 88 moves. The longest, at 22 moves, <Geza Janny vs Ion Gudju>, is one of the funniest games I've ever seen. |
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