The game below was again played at lichess.org. It was played as a 10 minute game with a 10 second increment. This somewhat short game ended in a wierd way. During the game I thought I was winning and when my opponent resigned, I thought that it was how the game should have ended. However, after the game when I put the computer to analyse this game, I noticed a peculiar fact, my opponent resigned in a position where he had a mate in one. He still had over four minutes on the clock when the game ended, so if he would have just thought a little bit longer, he would have won the game. I did think that my king has very few squares it can go to, but I did not see that if my opponent just plays Na7+ it is also mate... Somehow my brain just not registered that at all and luckily my opponent did not see that either. If I ever have won a game with luck, this certainly qualifies as one example. I was happily playing the moves, thinking that I have a good position and then on move 16 I thought about either Qe5 or c5. I decided to play Qe5 because then the threat of c5 is very strong or so I thought anyway. I did not think that Bxd6 is all that bad for me, though earlier I was worried about the knight jumping to b5. Of course I was completely ignoring my opponent's possibilities. For two moves, my opponent could have played Na7# which would have been a nice mate and it is very surprising that neither player saw it. I have added two analysed games to my post Chess960 SP50 and one analysed game to the following posts: Chess960 SP33, Chess960 SP369 and Chess960 SP878. I have also added one mate in three and four mate in four puzzles. Until Monday, my fellow chess and chess960 enthusiasts!
The blog features analysed games of mine, consisting of chess, chess960 and 3 check. There are also puzzles that you can solve by moving the pieces on the board and the solution can be checked by using the engine provided by the ChessBase's publishing tool. All games and puzzles can be downloaded for free!
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