Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: Mate by Castle Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:38:16 GMT In article docklutz@pop.pitt.edu (Joseph Klutz, M.D.) writes: >I'm trying to identify a game a friend showed me years age. which I've been >unable to find since. It was played during a tournament, and though I don't >have any other identifying information, the game was so extraordinary that I >think anyone who has seen it will remember it. About a dozen moves in, the >winning side makes a queen sacrifice that lures the opponent's king forward; >the winner then continues with a series of about ten consecutive checks that >force the opponent's king forward clear across the board, and ends by >checkmating that king in the winner's own first rank when the winner castles. > Can anyone identify this game for me and tell me where to find it or >send me the game moves. Thanks. The game is certainly: Lasker Ed. - Thomas (London), 1912 1. d4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 e6 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Bd3 b6 9. Ne5 Bb7 10. Qh5 Qe7 11. Qxh7+ Kxh7 12. Nxf6+ Kh6 13. Neg4+ Kg5 14. h4+ Kf4 15. g3+ Kf3 16. Be2+ Kg2 17. Rh2+ Kg1 *drum roll* 18. Kd2 mate Now, as you know, 18. O-O-O (mate) is given by some sources, which was possible, but I believe was not Lasker's choice. I recall he commented after the game that the King move was more aesthetic, in his view. -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* Exeter Chess Coaching Page etc.: || \_/| = DrDave on BICS http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV "Contribute!" -- Doug Attig From info!dregis Thu Mar 6 11:17:28 GMT 1997 Article: 100138 of soc.bi