Mating with Minor Pieces: Two Knights

On my last tournament run in Europe, I had the good fortune of checkmating two opponents with a pair of minor pieces (bishop and knight and then two bishops). There were other pieces on the board, but the minor pieces did the heavy lifting. With that in mind, I wanted to show an older game, where I made my debut as a 1.d4 player.

This was in the first round of the 2005 Michael Franett Memorial in San Francisco, a 12-player round-robin with IM norm chances. My opponent, Alan Stein, was one of those IM norm aspirants. I had only played 2 serious tournaments in almost 3 years, and so I decided to make the switch to 1.d4 for this event. After that, it's stuck!