New Mating Pattern
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New Mating Pattern
Q on d8...P on d4 & d5...Opposing K on d6
I float like a pawn island and sting like an ignored knight
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Re: New Mating Pattern
Not all that new - it occurs twice in ChessBase's Mega database.
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Re: New Mating Pattern
The mirror position (black queen on d1, black pawns on d4 & d5, white king on d3) also occurs twice
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Re: New Mating Pattern
Pretty sure I've seen this before in Polgars problem tome.
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Re: New Mating Pattern
It might not be new (almost everything in that can happen in chess has happened at some point by now) but id certainly say it is a rare and novel way to deliver a mate which will be new to a lot of people.
Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.
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Re: New Mating Pattern
Any chance of posting one the games?Tim Spanton wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:52 amNot all that new - it occurs twice in ChessBase's Mega database.
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Re: New Mating Pattern
Interesting because doubled pawns are rarely as useful as that. So positional weakness acting as tactical strength.
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Re: New Mating Pattern
You get similar patterns if you replace the distant pawn (the one not next to the king) with the opposing king, and again if you remove the distant pawn and add a knight one square behind it.
Any chance of someone posting those mating patterns and seeing how often they are to be found in a suitable database?
Any chance of someone posting those mating patterns and seeing how often they are to be found in a suitable database?
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Re: New Mating Pattern
Or if you replace the doubled pawns with bishopsChristopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:31 pmYou get similar patterns if you replace the distant pawn (the one not next to the king) with the opposing king, and again if you remove the distant pawn and add a knight one square behind it.
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Re: New Mating Pattern
Here you go:Jon D'Souza-Eva wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:35 pmAny chance of posting one the games?Tim Spanton wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:52 amNot all that new - it occurs twice in ChessBase's Mega database.
[Event "Doeberl Cup U1200 48th"]
[Site "Canberra"]
[Date "2010.04.03"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Lo, Wesley"]
[Black "Bishop, Isabella"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C42"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2010.04.02"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "6"]
[EventCountry "AUS"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2011.11.24"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Bb4 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. d3 Nc6 7. a3 Bxc3 8.
bxc3 d5 9. exd5 Na5 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. d4 Nxc4 13. Re1 Bg4 14. Rb1
exd4 15. cxd4 c6 16. Rxb7 Nxa3 17. Rb3 Nxc2 18. Qxc2 Bxf3 19. Rxf3 Qg5 20. Rg3
Qd8 21. Rg4 Rc8 22. Re3 Re8 23. h3 Rc7 24. Reg3 Kf8 25. Rxg7 Qb8 26. Rg8+ Ke7
27. Rxe8+ Kxe8 28. Rg8+ Kd7 29. Rxb8 Rc8 30. Qf5+ Kc7 31. Qxc8+ Kd6 32. Qd8#
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Re: New Mating Pattern
From a Red Hot Pawn game.
White played 27.Rb7.
White played 27.Rb7.
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Re: New Mating Pattern
That's a really excellent finish to that game, Geoff. If Black didn't have 30. ... Rh3+ it would have gone the other way. The game from the under 1200 tournament was interesting in its way too, but the mating pattern was just a coindidence in that one. It could have finished in a number of ways.