Thursday, February 3, 2011

A wonderful mating theme from ICC game

My friend and teammate from the Vestmann Islands team was playing a 3-minute game on ICC vs a Grandmaster and finished him off with a mate in 3 in this position.


1.Qf6!! Nxf6
2.Bg7!! Kxg7
3.h8=Q

Aside from being very beautiful and clean, this mating pattern also has a nice aesthetic geometry to it. White makes successive checks on the diagonal squares, f6, g7 and h8 and each time with a different piece! This could possibly be unique but I'll leave that to someone with good searching tools in databases.
Posted by Zibbit at 11:19 PM
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2 comments:

  1. Kyle SzklenskiFebruary 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    That's amazing. I really like that mate. While I'm sure it's not the first of its kind in that kind of position, I've certainly never seen anything quite like it.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM

    thanks for sharing Ingvar,
    surprisingly i managed to find it within 10s of looking at the position! (and i'm quite a weak player C class probably
    knowing that theres a mate makes it much easier though

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