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Re: [OT] Re: Miniatures are the best

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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Miniatures are the best
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by: Eli Kesef - Thu, 5 Aug 2021 05:59 UTC

Bs"d

Just got myself another mate of Legal, which resulted in a mate on move 8, after a queen sacrifice.
I offered the enemy my queen, the enemy jumped upon her with the speed of a vulture diving upon a rotting carcass. I proceeded to mate the enemy in 2 moves: https://lichess.org/yIs9aVZWlpTS

For your convenience and safety I repeat here the warning I posted above before:

A word of warning concerning the mate of Legal.

If somebody wants to play that queen sacrifice, and after the preliminary moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. Nc3 Bg4 he wants to smack his horse into e5, he must know that chess is not checkers, meaning that the opponent is not obligated to take his queen. If the opponents ignores the queen, but instead play Nxe5, then white is a horse down.
White can then take the bishop on g4, but then black takes the unprotected bishop on c4, and white remains a horse down.
And that is the reason that on move 5 I didn't let my horse smack in on e5, but I played the crucial move h3. After that the enemy retreated his bishop to h5, and then the coast was clear for my horse smacking in on e5, and thereby sacrificing the queen. Still black can refuse the queen, and take the white horse on e5 with his horse from c6. But then the white queen takes the bishop on h5. And then still the black horse on e5 can take the unprotected bishop on c4, but now there is a cure. Because now the white queen on h5 moves to b5, and says "check!" Not only gives the queen check, but it now also attacks the unprotected black horse on c4, and no matter how black gets out of the check, the next move the white queen takes the black horse, and white remains a pawn up.

So the move 5. h3 is absolutely crucial, because the mate of Legal is quite well known, and if you try it against somebody who knows it, and you don't play first h3, you most likely will be a horse down.

And that's bad,

So know your theory, and you'll be fine, and even win regularly a nice miniature, like the one above of 8 moves.

Good luck!

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