My Worst Queen Blunders Ever

Introduction

Recently, I took a trip down memory lane and what I found there is quite interesting. For the first time in months, I went back to Chesskid and looked through some of my old games. From what I saw, I got brutally beaten up by many other Chesskids. Most of it was pretty normal - losing to tactics, throwing away endgames, etc.

However, I did see a few things that no humans were ever meant to (re)discover.

I found my worst queen blunders ever.

Queen Blunder #1

Let me set the scene for you. 

I had just learned a new opening, the Caro-Kann. My opponent played into a Two Knights Variation, which is very comfortable for the Black pieces. I move out my knights and bishop, and prepare a fianchetto. The game was going to be a long and interesting positional battle. At least, that's what my opponent must have been thinking when I whipped out a very interesting twelfth move. Let me show you:

That was a very underwhelming game, but it was a tremendous start to our list. Let's move onto:

Queen Blunder #2

I imagine I had just finished up a thick and boring book about chess strategy when I booted up the game. With my mind on backward pawns, weak squares, knight maneuvers, I decided to put my newfound deep chess knowledge to good use and found a beautiful strategic retreat.

Somehow, my opponent managed to refute that beautiful move! I think he must have been cheating. That must be it, I'll go and report him now...

Queen Blunder #3

This one happened way back in my Englund-playing days (yes, there was a time when I would exclusively play 1... e5 against 1. d4). My opponent had apparently taken the five minutes needed to learn how to destroy the Englund, and at that point, I had lost my own coin flip.  Still, my inner anime motivation kicked in around the end of the opening and I was determined to break through my opponent's iron fortress.

It was all quiet, but suddenly something happened! My opponent had blundered a pawn! I captured it, but what happened next will shock you!

Queen Blunder #4

During this game, an incredible strategical renaissance occurred in my chess mind. I realized that a pawn is worth as much as a queen because a pawn can promote to a queen! With my newfound knowledge, I uncorked an absolute stunner of a move!

Queen Blunder #5

In this game, I was up a full piece with a better position when I unleashed the killer move. My opponent tried to threaten my queen. However, at this point, my brain cells had unionized and were on strike. The result? Well, it ended up on this list. Let me show you:

Conclusion

This was a very fun blog to write, and I'll definitely be making more parts of this because I have many, many more queen blunders in my archive to rediscover. Anyways, I did make good on my promise of posting every day, so until tomorrow, thanks for reading the Daily Rat!