Learning How to Checkmate in 1 Move

Spotting checkmate in ones in chess is extremely important. A position where you have checkmate in one move, can turn into a disaster in just a simple move.

Since I am rather inexperienced in playing faster time controls, I have been playing a lot of 3+2 and 3+0's to gain some experience in making decisions under time pressure. (I have a ton of blitz games but they were 10-minute games before Chess.com switched 10-min to rapid time control). 

One day, during one of my blitz games on the stream, my spidey senses started tingling, because I did spot that I had mate somewhere on the board. When a queen move delivered immediate mate, I put my queen somewhere else on the same file under time pressure and forgetfulness. My lovely lady was taken away from me and everything just collapsed in a blink of an eye as I got distracted by my own blunder.

After this incident, as if I was able to forget this horrendous incident, I got challenged by my chat. Apparently, I always miss mate in ones in actual games. 

In this video, I take on this challenge brought by my chat and only solve mate in ones to open my eyes and seize the opportunity. 

Let me know if you immediately spot mate in ones in actual games and post some of your favorite weird checkmate in ones down below in the comment section.

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