Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Funny checkmate in one

Got this position with black on PlayChess.com. My opponent is an IM, rated 2467 on PlayChess and 2382 in FIDE rating. This is obviously a French Defence and this time a Black Queen Blues variation. My opponent played a very rare queenside castle in this line and now after my move 21...Nd8 he found:



22.Qb4??

A quite hilarious mistake and of course the rare positioning of the white king in this line meant that this otherwise standard move is now met with:

22...Qc2#

1 comment:

  1. Guess the white-squared bishop isn't always bad in the French :D Naughty one ^^

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