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18th July 2009, 01:50am
#1
by LYCAN148
Auckland New Zealand
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i was playing a game with a friend and stumbled across this mate,anyone know what its called???

18th July 2009, 02:00am
#2
by kco
Perth Australia
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Checkmate ! Tongue out

18th July 2009, 02:42am
#3
by rich
United Kingdom
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Mate.

18th July 2009, 02:58am
#4
by Nytik
Southampton United Kingdom
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Not every checkmate has a name, LYCAN! Only the clearly defined, such as Philidor's Mate, Boden's Mate, and the rare Tonydal's Mate.

18th July 2009, 03:03am
#5
by kco
Perth Australia
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... or is can be called 'A Bloody Good Mate' by LYCAN148

18th July 2009, 03:55am
#6
by Paranoid-Android
Maribor Slovenia
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It is kind of arabian mate in the middle of the board. This is arabian mate:

18th July 2009, 04:06am
#7
by Nytik
Southampton United Kingdom
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disorder wrote:

It is kind of arabian mate in the middle of the board. This is arabian mate:

 

 


However, we cannot call it arabian mate as the d4-pawn is requried, whereas it traditionally only needs rook and knight.

18th July 2009, 04:20am
#8
by Paranoid-Android
Maribor Slovenia
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Nytik wrote:
disorder wrote:

It is kind of arabian mate in the middle of the board. This is arabian mate:

 

 


However, we cannot call it arabian mate as the d4-pawn is requried, whereas it traditionally only needs rook and knight.


Yes, also the king is in different position than in arabian, which makes the mate possible and knight has to be protected. But if you want to call it somehow, I'd say it's a variation of the arabian - out of all named mates, I think arabian is the closest one.

21st July 2009, 03:23am
#9
by BaronDerKilt
East of Omaha United States
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If it is like an Arabian Mate but in the middle-of-the-board, then how about naming it after the Arabian nomads that might be found traveling in the middle-of-the-desert; to live and die there, with their prized horses ... a Bedouin Mate !? Smile

Noticed your other mate with N+/Q+/Q# too. Whether the final Q+ were given from Qxc5# or Qb6#, I doubt it has a name ?! Might be mistaken tho.

4th August 2009, 12:45am
#10
by LYCAN148
Auckland New Zealand
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BaronDerKilt wrote:

If it is like an Arabian Mate but in the middle-of-the-board, then how about naming it after the Arabian nomads that might be found traveling in the middle-of-the-desert; to live and die there, with their prized horses ... a Bedouin Mate !?

Noticed your other mate with N+/Q+/Q# too. Whether the final Q+ were given from Qxc5# or Qb6#, I doubt it has a name ?! Might be mistaken tho.


yeah,i saw the Q mate later but i only found the R/P/N mate at the time

18th August 2009, 04:48am
#11
by Paranoid-Android
Maribor Slovenia
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Another "Bedouin mate" pattern, from one of my games. Queen doesn't participate in mate, all empty squares around king are attacked by rook and knight, which is protected by the pawn on d4. Queen only pushed the king on the right square - d6 (opponent wasn't forced to move his king though).

28th October 2009, 10:29am
#12
by kunduk
kolkata India
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& arabian mate is possible in many ways..

28th October 2009, 11:19pm
#13
by NM OmarCayenne
United States
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kco wrote:

... or is can be called 'A Bloody Good Mate' by LYCAN148


Yep, it is now officially the Lycan mate.

 

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